Congratulations to CLBB Faculty and Northeastern University Professor Lisa Feldman Barrett, who was recently selected by the Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology (FPSP) and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) to receive the 2014 Carol and Ed Diener Award in Social Psychology. This award is designed to recognize a scholar (approximately 15-25 years from their first tenure-track appointment) whose work has added substantially to the body of knowledge to the social psychology field and/or brings together personality psychology and social psychology. Continue reading »
Lisa Feldman Barrett receives Diener Award
- Category: Press
- Tags: Lisa Feldman Barrett | pain | psychology
- Date: August 22, 2014
- Author: admin2
Who Has a Right to Pain Relief?
By Rebecca Davis O’Brien | The Atlantic | August 18, 2014
“Pain has become our fifth vital sign.” Speaking last fall at a New Jersey symposium on pain management called “Do No Harm,” the chairman of emergency services at Hackensack University Medical Center said what his audience of doctors and nurses hardly needed to be told. We are all familiar with the medical routine: The thermometer beeps, the blood pressure gauge sighs, breaths and pulse are recorded—and then we’re asked, these days, how much it hurts on a scale of one to 10. Pain didn’t get there on its own. In fact, the speaker was borrowing a line from the American Pain Society, a patient-advocacy group whose research is supported by pharmaceutical companies. “In a certain way,” he confessed, “we have created our own monster.” Continue reading »
- Category: Publications
- Tags: addiction | keith wailoo | pain | pain relief | pharmaceutical industry
- Date: August 22, 2014
- Author: The Atlantic and admin2
Court Review: Special Issue on Law & Neuroscience
In the summer 2014, Court Review, the journal of the American Judges Association, published a special issue on law and neuroscience. Court Review is distributed quarterly to an audience of over 2,200 judges in the United States. This special issue featured shortened versions, adapted from longer pieces, made accessible to the judiciary, on topics such as decision-making, brain imaging evidence, adolescent brain development, and pain in the law. Continue reading »
- Category: Press, Publications
- Tags: amanda-pustilnik | Josh Buckholtz | judicial education | neurolaw
- Date: August 22, 2014
- Author: admin2
Free Will and Punishment: A Mechanistic View of Human Nature Reduces Retribution
By Azim F. Shariff, Joshua D. Greene, Johan C. Karremans, Jamie B. Luguri, Cory J. Clark, Jonathan W. Schooler, Roy F. Baumeister & Kathleen D. Vohs | Psychological Science | August 2014
Abstract:
If free-will beliefs support attributions of moral responsibility, then reducing these beliefs should make people less retributive in their attitudes about punishment. Four studies tested this prediction using both measured and manipulated free-will beliefs. Study 1 found that people with weaker free-will beliefs endorsed less retributive, but not consequentialist, attitudes regarding punishment of criminals. Subsequent studies showed that learning about the neural bases of human behavior, through either lab-based manipulations or attendance at an undergraduate neuroscience course, reduced people’s support for retributive punishment (Studies 2–4). These results illustrate that exposure to debates about free will and to scientific research on the neural basis of behavior may have consequences for attributions of moral responsibility.
- Category: Publications
- Tags: behavior | criminal-responsibility | free will | Josh Greene | psychological science | retribution
- Date: August 22, 2014
- Author: The New York Times and admin2
Nancy Gertner receives the Margaret Brent Lawyers of Achievement Award
CLBB Faculty and Harvard Law School Professor of Practice Nancy Gertner has been selected as a recipient of the 2014 Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award, established by the ABA Commission on the Status of Women in the Profession. Continue reading »
- Category: Press
- Tags: harvard law school | Nancy Gertner
- Date: August 18, 2014
- Author: admin2