Behavioral Psychology

Bankers' Brains, Market Behavior

Peter A. Ubel | Posted 09.24.2008 | Home

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Peter A. Ubel

Rationally directed greed would never have led us to this financial crisis. People are not nearly as rational as the market evangelists in the Republican Party would have us think.

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Client 9: What was he Thinking?

Gary Marcus | Posted 03.11.2008 | Home

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Gary Marcus

Spitzer's decision to take the risk was likely premeditated. This is not just a case of a man being led about his hormones, to the exclusion of the rest of his brain, but something more complicated.

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Your Genes Made You Do It? Guilt, Innocence, and Behavioral Genetics

Dan Agin | Posted 01.14.2008 | Home

Read More: Crime and Responsibility, Human Behavioral Genetics, Crime, Incarcerated Black Youths, Racism, Discrimination, Behavioral Psychology, Police Bias, Home News
Dan Agin

There is now a current interest in the legal community in modern behavioral genetics and in the idea that since behavior may be controlled by genetics, what does "responsibility" mean?

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