1.
Ideology, Motivated Reasoning, and Cognitive Reflection: An Experimental Study
Judgment and Decision Making, 8, 407-24 (2013), Cultural Cognition Lab Working Paper No. 107, Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 272
Number of pages: 61
Posted: 30 Nov 2012
Last Revised: 30 Jul 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Yale University - Law School
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6,691
2.
The Neural Theory of Metaphor
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 23 Jul 2009
Working Paper Series
University of California, Berkeley
Downloads
4,014
3.
Brain Imaging for Legal Thinkers: A Guide for the Perplexed
Stanford Technology Law Review, Vol. 5, 2009, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 10-09
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 04 Mar 2010
Accepted Paper Series
Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Neuroscience Program, Vanderbilt University - Department of Psychology and Vanderbilt University - Department of Psychology
Center for Integrative and Cognitive Neuroscience
Center for Integrative and Cognitive Neuroscience
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3,053
4.
Philosophical Foundations of Law and Neuroscience
University of Illinois Law Review, 2010, U of Alabama Public Law Research Paper No. 1338763
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 06 Feb 2009
Last Revised: 26 Dec 2013
Working Paper Series
University of Alabama School of Law and Rutgers University School of Law, Camden
Downloads
2,208
5.
Law and Neuroscience in the United States
INTERNATIONAL NEUROLAW: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS, p. 349, T.M. Spranger, ed., Springer-Verlag, 2012, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 1-5
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 13 Feb 2012
Last Revised: 04 Aug 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences and University of Minnesota Law School
Downloads
1,993
6.
Law and Neuroscience
LAW AND NEUROSCIENCE, (Aspen 2014, Forthcoming), Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper 14-12, Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 14-19
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 19 Mar 2014
Last Revised: 27 May 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University - Department of Psychology and University of Minnesota Law School
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1,900
7.
Killing Them Softly: Neuroscience Reveals How Brain Cells Die from Law School Stress and How Neural Self-Hacking Can Optimize Cognitive Performance
59 LOY. L. REV. 791 (2013), U Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No. 13-12
Number of pages: 70
Posted: 03 Mar 2013
Last Revised: 26 Nov 2014
Accepted Paper Series
University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Downloads
1,804
8.
What Causes Suboptimal Financial Behaviour? An Exploration of Financial Literacy, Social Influences and Behavioural Economics
U of Melbourne Legal Studies Research Paper No. 540
Number of pages: 244
Posted: 28 Mar 2011
Last Revised: 28 May 2011
Working Paper Series
La Trobe Law School and Melbourne Law School - University of Melbourne
Downloads
1,774
9.
Brain Scans as Evidence: Truths, Proofs, Lies, and Lessons
Mercer Law Review, Vol. 62, p. 861, 2011, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 11-2
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 24 Feb 2011
Last Revised: 24 Aug 2011
Accepted Paper Series
University of Minnesota Law School and Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences
Downloads
1,382
10.
Seeing Through Colorblindness: Implicit Bias and the Law
UCLA Law Review, Vol. 58, p. 465, 2010, UCLA School of Law Research Paper No. 10-22
Number of pages: 56
Posted: 01 Jul 2010
Last Revised: 05 Jan 2011
Accepted Paper Series
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law and Bard College Program in Psychology
Downloads
1,211
11.
How Should Justice Policy Treat Young Offenders?
MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience, February 2017, Vanderbilt Law Research Paper No. 17-9, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 17-17, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-545
Number of pages: 5
Posted: 28 Feb 2017
Last Revised: 26 Apr 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Yale University - Department of Psychology, University of Virginia - School of Law, US Court of Appeals - Fourth Circuit, University of California Hastings College of the Law, Second Judicial District Court Judge, State of Colorado, Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University - Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Washington University in St. Louis - Department of Neurology, Yale University - Department of Psychology, Columbia University - Law School, Temple University - Department of Psychology, New York University School of Law and Stanford University - Psychology
Downloads
1,183
12.
Risk Assessment in Criminal Sentencing
Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, Forthcoming, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper, No. 53
Number of pages: 57
Posted: 17 Sep 2015
Accepted Paper Series
University of Virginia School of Law and University of California, Berkeley
There are 2 versions of this paper
Risk Assessment in Criminal Sentencing
Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, Forthcoming, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper, No. 53
Number of pages: 57
Posted: 17 Sep 2015
Downloads
1,179
Risk Assessment in Criminal Sentencing
Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, Vol. 12, pp. 489-513, 2016
Posted: 30 Mar 2016
Downloads
1,179
13.
The False Promise of Adolescent Brain Science in Juvenile Justice
Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 85, p. 89, 2010, Gruter Institute Squaw Valley Conference 2009: Law, Behavior & the Brain
Number of pages: 88
Posted: 15 May 2009
Last Revised: 08 Dec 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Vanderbilt University - Law School
Downloads
1,152
14.
A Biological Basis of Rights
Hofstra University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-17
Number of pages: 73
Posted: 30 Jul 2009
Last Revised: 31 Mar 2014
Working Paper Series
Independent
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1,102
15.
Do Violent Video Games Harm Children? Comparing the Scientific Amicus Curiae 'Experts' in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association
Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy, Vol. 106, p. 1, 2011
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 31 May 2011
Accepted Paper Series
Texas Southern University - Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Ohio State University (OSU) - School of Journalism and Communication and Iowa State University - Department of Psychology
Downloads
1,092
16.
Postmodern Legal Thought and Cognitive Science
Georgia State University Law Review, Forthcoming, Hofstra Univ. Legal Studies Research
Number of pages: 57
Posted: 07 Nov 2006
Last Revised: 31 Mar 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Independent
Downloads
1,092
17.
Neuroethics and Criminal Responsibility – A Criminal Law Comment on Neil Levy's Consciousness and Moral Responsibility
Anatomy of Crime - Journal of Law and Crime Sciences, 3, 2016, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 6
Posted: 14 Jun 2016
Accepted Paper Series
University of Lisbon - School of Law
Downloads
1,034
18.
Why Behavioral Economics Isn't Better, and How it Could Be
in Research Handbook on Behavioral Law and Economics (J. Teitelbaum & K. Zeiler eds, 2015 Forthcoming), Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 14-30, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 14-32
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 17 Oct 2014
Last Revised: 28 Mar 2019
Accepted Paper Series
Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences
Downloads
980
19.
Lost in Translation?: An Essay on Law and Neuroscience
LAW AND NEUROSCIENCE, CURRENT LEGAL ISSUES, Vol. 13, p. 529, Michael Freeman, ed., 2011, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 11-27
Number of pages: 19
Posted: 04 Aug 2011
Accepted Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Downloads
977
20.
Mental Disorder and Criminal Law
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol. 101, p. 885, 2011, University of Pennsylvania Public Law & Legal Theory, Research Paper No. 11-23
Number of pages: 85
Posted: 24 Jul 2011
Last Revised: 02 Aug 2011
Accepted Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Downloads
976
21.
To Promote the Creative Process: Intellectual Property Law and the Psychology of Creativity
Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 86, 2011, Temple University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2011-04
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 12 Jan 2011
Last Revised: 17 Jun 2016
Accepted Paper Series
Temple University - James E. Beasley School of Law
Downloads
974
22.
Emotion, Neuroscience, and Law: A Comment on Darwin and Greene
Emotion Review, Forthcoming, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 11-26
Number of pages: 3
Posted: 14 Feb 2011
Last Revised: 26 Oct 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Georgetown University Law Center
Downloads
946
23.
Review of Patricia S. Churchland, 'Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us About Morality'
Ethics, Vol. 123, No. 2, 2013, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 13-007
Number of pages: 3
Posted: 29 Dec 2012
Last Revised: 20 Sep 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Georgetown University Law Center
Downloads
925
24.
Blaming the Brain
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology, Vol. 11, 2010, University of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2009-34
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 12 Sep 2009
Last Revised: 04 Aug 2015
Accepted Paper Series
affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads
911
25.
An Introduction to Behavioral Biology for Legal Scholars
Number of pages: 43
Posted: 20 Jun 2010
Last Revised: 04 Sep 2014
Working Paper Series
Independent
Downloads
909
26.
Will There Be a Neurolaw Revolution?
Indiana Law Journal, Vol. 89, p. 807, 2014, Brooklyn Law School, Legal Studies Paper No. 301
Number of pages: 39
Posted: 19 Feb 2014
Last Revised: 01 Apr 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Brooklyn Law School
Downloads
909
27.
Law and Neuroscience: Recommendations Submitted to the President's Bioethics Commission
Journal of Law and Biosciences, vol 1, pp 224-236 (2014)
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 31 Aug 2014
Last Revised: 27 Jul 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of Virginia - School of Law, Yale University - Department of Psychology, US Court of Appeals - Fourth Circuit, University of California Hastings College of the Law, Second Judicial District Court Judge, State of Colorado, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University - Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Washington University in St. Louis - Department of Neurology, Yale University - Department of Psychology, Columbia University - Law School, Temple University - Department of Psychology, New York University School of Law, Stanford University - Psychology and Yale Law School
Downloads
901
28.
Human-Focused Turing Tests: A Framework for Judging Nudging and Techno-Social Engineering of Human Beings
Cardozo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 441
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 23 Sep 2014
Last Revised: 19 Jul 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Villanova University - School of Law
Downloads
882
29.
Punishment as Suffering
Vanderbilt Law Review, Vol. 63, No. 6, p. 1619, 2010, U of Maryland Legal Studies Research, 2010-19
Number of pages: 75
Posted: 25 Mar 2010
Last Revised: 25 Nov 2010
Accepted Paper Series
University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Downloads
859
30.
Brain Science and the Theory of Juvenile Mens Rea
94 North Carolina Law Review 539 (2016)
Number of pages: 62
Posted: 08 May 2015
Last Revised: 06 Jun 2016
Accepted Paper Series
University of Alabama - School of Law
Downloads
858
31.
Brand Fetishism
Connecticut Law Review, Vol. 43, p. 83
Number of pages: 67
Posted: 10 Sep 2009
Last Revised: 31 Mar 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law
Downloads
856
32.
Credit Card Borrowing and the Monoamine Oxidase A (MAOA) Gene
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 20 Aug 2009
Last Revised: 27 Feb 2014
Accepted Paper Series
University of Oxford and UC San Diego Division of Social Sciences
Downloads
853
33.
Neuroscience Evidence, Legal Culture, and Criminal Procedure
American Journal of Criminal Law, Vol. 33, p. 301, 2006, U of Alabama Public Law Research Paper No. 910958
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 25 Jun 2006
Accepted Paper Series
University of Alabama School of Law
Downloads
825
34.
fMRI and Lie Detection
MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience, 2016
, Vanderbilt Law Research Paper No. 17-10
Number of pages: 5
Posted: 23 Dec 2016
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford University - Psychology, University of Virginia - School of Law, Yale University - Department of Psychology, US Court of Appeals - Fourth Circuit, University of California Hastings College of the Law, Second Judicial District Court Judge, State of Colorado, Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University - Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Washington University in St. Louis - Department of Neurology, Yale University - Department of Psychology, Columbia University - Law School, Temple University - Department of Psychology, New York University School of Law and Yale Law School
Downloads
816
35.
Left-Brain versus Right-Brain: Competing Conceptions of Creativity in Intellectual Property Law
U.C. Davis Law Review, Vol. 44, p. 283, 2010, Temple University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2010-8
Number of pages: 79
Posted: 13 Apr 2010
Last Revised: 24 Nov 2010
Accepted Paper Series
Temple University - James E. Beasley School of Law
Downloads
812
36.
Human Biology and Criminal Responsibility: Free Will or Free Ride?
University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 137, pp. 615-671, 1988
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 17 Apr 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Fordham University School of Law
Downloads
794
37.
Current Directions in Violence Risk Assessment
Current Directions in Psychological Science, Forthcoming
, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2011-13
Number of pages: 16
Posted: 25 Mar 2011
Accepted Paper Series
University of California, Berkeley and University of Virginia School of Law
Downloads
767
38.
Is Deontology a Heuristic? On Psychology, Neuroscience, Ethics, and Law
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 02 Aug 2013
Last Revised: 20 Aug 2013
Working Paper Series
Harvard Law School
Downloads
722
39.
Well-Being Analysis vs. Cost-Benefit Analysis
62 Duke Law Journal 1603 (2013), Chicago-Kent College of Law Research Paper No. 2013-05
Number of pages: 88
Posted: 22 Jan 2012
Last Revised: 18 Mar 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and University of Chicago - Law School
Downloads
707
40.
Seven Ways Neuroscience Aids Law
Neurosciences and the Human Person: New Perspectives on Human Activities (A. Battro, S. Dehaene & W. Singer, eds.) Scripta Varia 121, Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Vatican City, 2013, Forthcoming, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 13-28
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 19 Jun 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences
Downloads
704
41.
Privacy, Neuroscience, and Neuro-Surveillance
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 19 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
University of Washington - The Information School
Downloads
699
42.
The Experiential Future of the Law
Emory Law Journal, Vol. 60, p. 585, 2011
Number of pages: 68
Posted: 13 Oct 2009
Last Revised: 09 May 2011
Accepted Paper Series
Brooklyn Law School
Downloads
689
43.
Reciprocal Altruism as the Basis for Contract
University of Louisville Law Review, Vol. 47, No. 3, 2009, Hofstra Univ. Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-09
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 26 Sep 2008
Last Revised: 31 Mar 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Independent
Downloads
683
44.
Is the Prohibition of Homicide Universal? Evidence from Comparative Criminal Law
Symposium, Brooklyn Law Review, Forthcoming, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 10-21
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 23 Mar 2010
Last Revised: 16 Apr 2010
Accepted Paper Series
Georgetown University Law Center
Downloads
671
45.
Psychopathy and Culpability: How Responsible is the Psychopath for Criminal Wrongdoing?
Law and Social Inquiry, Forthcoming, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 521
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 12 Aug 2011
Last Revised: 13 Sep 2011
Accepted Paper Series
University of California, Irvine - Department of Philosophy, University of Arizona - Department of Psychology and Duke University
Downloads
671
46.
Neuroscientists in Court
14 Nature Reviews Neuroscience 730 (2013), Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 14-17
Number of pages: 7
Posted: 07 May 2014
Last Revised: 15 May 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences, Stanford University - Psychology, University of California Hastings College of the Law and Washington University in St. Louis - Department of Neurology
Downloads
653
47.
Emotion, Proof and Prejudice: The Cognitive Science of Gruesome Photos and Victim Impact Statements
46 Arizona State Law Journal 1003 (2014)
Number of pages: 54
Posted: 29 Mar 2014
Last Revised: 06 Aug 2015
Accepted Paper Series
DePaul University - College of Law and Arizona State University
Downloads
639
48.
Law and Neuroscience
33 THE JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE 17624 (2013), Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 14-18
Number of pages: 7
Posted: 07 May 2014
Last Revised: 15 May 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University - Department of Psychology
Center for Integrative and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania and Stanford Law School
Center for Integrative and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania and Stanford Law School
Downloads
638
49.
Mindfulness, Emotions, and Ethics: The Right Stuff?
Nevada Law Journal, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2010, Thomas Jefferson School of Law Research Paper No. 1602107
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 07 May 2010
Accepted Paper Series
Thomas Jefferson School of Law
Downloads
630
50.
Culture, Cognition and Conflict: How Neuroscience Can Help to Explain Cultural Differences in Negotiation and Conflict Management
IACM 21st Annual Conference Paper
Number of pages: 8
Posted: 13 Dec 2008
Working Paper Series
Fairfield University, Fairfield University - Charles F. Dolan School of Business and Fairfield University - Charles F. Dolan School of Business
Downloads
622
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