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Crime and punishment: Neurobiological roots of modern justice

April 18, 2012 by

Neuroscientists have proposed the first neurobiological model for third-party punishment. It outlines a collection of potential cognitive and brain processes that evolutionary pressures could have re-purposed to make this behavior possible.

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