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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1451
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-12-13
pubmed:abstractText
Much has been written about how law as an institution has developed to solve many problems that human societies face. Inherent in all of these explanations are models of how humans make decisions. This article discusses what current neuroscience research tells us about the mechanisms of human decision making of particular relevance to law. This research indicates that humans are both more capable of solving many problems than standard economic models predict, but also limited in ways those models ignore. This article discusses how law is both shaped by our cognitive processes and also shapes them. The article considers some of the implications of this research for improving our understanding of how our current legal regimes operate and how the law can be structured to take advantage of our neural mechanisms to improve social welfare.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0962-8436
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
29
pubmed:volume
359
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1727-36
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-9-20
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
The brain and the law.
pubmed:affiliation
School of Law, George Mason University, 3301 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 22201, USA. tchorvat@gmu.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't