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TED: Daniel Reisel: The Neuroscience of Restorative Justice
April 5, 2014
Daniel Reisel studies the brains of criminal psychopaths (and mice). And he asks a big question: Instead of warehousing these...
April 5, 2014
Daniel Reisel studies the brains of criminal psychopaths (and mice). And he asks a big question: Instead of warehousing these...
Why Preschoolers Can Outsmart College Students
April 5, 2014
Simple test of logic produces surprising win for 4 and 5-year-olds over college students. Preschoolers can outsmart college students because they are less biased and more flexible than adults, a new study finds. The conclusion comes from research published in the journal,Cognition, which put 170 college undergrads up against 106 four and five-year-olds in a test of learning and reasoning (Lucas et al., 2014).
April 5, 2014
Simple test of logic produces surprising win for 4 and 5-year-olds over college students. Preschoolers can outsmart college students because they are less biased and more flexible than adults, a new study finds. The conclusion comes from research published in the journal,Cognition, which put 170 college undergrads up against 106 four and five-year-olds in a test of learning and reasoning (Lucas et al., 2014).
Intelligent People Are More Inclined to Trust Others
April 5, 2014
Seven ways that trust benefits both individuals and society as a whole. Intelligent people are more likely to trust others, according to a new analysis of US public opinion poll data. This may be because more intelligent people are better judges of character. The study, published in the journal PLOS ONE, analysed data from the ‘General Social Survey’, which asks a nationally representative sample of Americans about their attitudes and characteristics (Carl & Billari, 2014).
April 5, 2014
Seven ways that trust benefits both individuals and society as a whole. Intelligent people are more likely to trust others, according to a new analysis of US public opinion poll data. This may be because more intelligent people are better judges of character. The study, published in the journal PLOS ONE, analysed data from the ‘General Social Survey’, which asks a nationally representative sample of Americans about their attitudes and characteristics (Carl & Billari, 2014).
Supercomputer Watson To Fight Cancer
April 5, 2014
IBM’s Jeopardy!-winning supercomputer Watson is to start exploring genetics in an attempt to tackle a rare brain cancer. Watson famously beat two champion Jeopardy players in a three-day challenge in 2011. While supercomputers can process information far more quickly than humans, the victory was significant as it showed Watson was able to process language and link concepts. IBM later made Watson available for several projects such as automated help systems and attempts by hospitals to figure...
April 5, 2014
IBM’s Jeopardy!-winning supercomputer Watson is to start exploring genetics in an attempt to tackle a rare brain cancer. Watson famously beat two champion Jeopardy players in a three-day challenge in 2011. While supercomputers can process information far more quickly than humans, the victory was significant as it showed Watson was able to process language and link concepts. IBM later made Watson available for several projects such as automated help systems and attempts by hospitals to figure...
Cool Brain Visualization
April 5, 2014
This is an anatomically-realistic 3D brain visualization depicting real-timesource-localized activity (power and “effective” connectivity) from EEG(electroencephalographic) signals. Each color represents source power and connectivity in a different frequency band (theta, alpha, beta, gamma) and the golden lines are white matter anatomical fiber tracts. Estimated information transfer between brain regions is visualized as pulses of light flowing along the fiber tracts connecting the regions.
April 5, 2014
This is an anatomically-realistic 3D brain visualization depicting real-timesource-localized activity (power and “effective” connectivity) from EEG(electroencephalographic) signals. Each color represents source power and connectivity in a different frequency band (theta, alpha, beta, gamma) and the golden lines are white matter anatomical fiber tracts. Estimated information transfer between brain regions is visualized as pulses of light flowing along the fiber tracts connecting the regions.
The Unconscious Mind Can Spot a Lie Even When the Conscious Mind Fails
April 4, 2014
New study finds that the conscious mind may hamper our abilities to detect lying. It’s remarkably difficult to tell when other people are lying. That’s not just my opinion, that’s the result of many studies on lyingconducted over the years. As, Leanne ten Brinke, the author of a new study investigating lie detection, says: “Our research was prompted by the puzzling but consistent finding that humans are very poor lie detectors, performing at only about 54% accuracy in traditional...
April 4, 2014
New study finds that the conscious mind may hamper our abilities to detect lying. It’s remarkably difficult to tell when other people are lying. That’s not just my opinion, that’s the result of many studies on lyingconducted over the years. As, Leanne ten Brinke, the author of a new study investigating lie detection, says: “Our research was prompted by the puzzling but consistent finding that humans are very poor lie detectors, performing at only about 54% accuracy in traditional...
Dodd-Frank and Structured Settlements
April 4, 2014
What impact will the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, and related international regulatory developments, have on structured settlement annuity providers? Proposed Amendment to Dodd-Frank That issue was indirectly spotlighted this week when Senator Susan Collins (R., Maine) announced progress on a bill that would amend Dodd-Frank to permit the Federal Reserve to exempt insurers from new capital rules for banks. Although the Federal Reserve has not yet published capital...
April 4, 2014
What impact will the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, and related international regulatory developments, have on structured settlement annuity providers? Proposed Amendment to Dodd-Frank That issue was indirectly spotlighted this week when Senator Susan Collins (R., Maine) announced progress on a bill that would amend Dodd-Frank to permit the Federal Reserve to exempt insurers from new capital rules for banks. Although the Federal Reserve has not yet published capital...
E-Discovery Preservation Costs Survey: The Results are In!
April 4, 2014
Notable findings include that “[o]ver 79 percent of respondents reported a ‘great extent’ or ‘moderate extent’ of preservation burdens”; that “[a]mong the largest companies in the sample, the estimated costs exceed $40 million per company per year”; and that “[o]n average across all survey respondents, slightly less than half of all preserved data is ever collected, processed, and reviewed” and “[e]ven less is produced or eventually used in litigation.” Also notable was the conclusion...
April 4, 2014
Notable findings include that “[o]ver 79 percent of respondents reported a ‘great extent’ or ‘moderate extent’ of preservation burdens”; that “[a]mong the largest companies in the sample, the estimated costs exceed $40 million per company per year”; and that “[o]n average across all survey respondents, slightly less than half of all preserved data is ever collected, processed, and reviewed” and “[e]ven less is produced or eventually used in litigation.” Also notable was the conclusion...
Denial of Certiorari in Delaware Chancery Arbitration Case
April 4, 2014
The Supreme Court has denied certiorari in Delaware Coalition for Open Government v. Strine, in which the Third Circuit struck down Delaware’s scheme allowing parties with cases before the Delaware Court of Chancery to pay an extra fee to have their matters heard by a Chancery judge sitting in the guise of an arbitrator. The Third Circuit’s decision was based on the First Amendment right of public access to judicial proceedings. As I discussed in a previous post on the case, however, in my view...
April 4, 2014
The Supreme Court has denied certiorari in Delaware Coalition for Open Government v. Strine, in which the Third Circuit struck down Delaware’s scheme allowing parties with cases before the Delaware Court of Chancery to pay an extra fee to have their matters heard by a Chancery judge sitting in the guise of an arbitrator. The Third Circuit’s decision was based on the First Amendment right of public access to judicial proceedings. As I discussed in a previous post on the case, however, in my view...
Bargaining with Consequences
April 4, 2014
I’ll be presenting my article Bargaining with Consequences: Leverage and Coercion in Negotiation tomorrow (Friday, February 27, 2014) at the Quinnipiac-Yale Dispute Resolution Workshop at Quinnipiac University School of Law. Here’s the abstract to the article, which will be published later this spring in the Harvard Negotiation Law Review: Leverage has been called “negotiation’s prime mover,” conferring power to reach agreement “on your terms.” This power, however, is not always...
April 4, 2014
I’ll be presenting my article Bargaining with Consequences: Leverage and Coercion in Negotiation tomorrow (Friday, February 27, 2014) at the Quinnipiac-Yale Dispute Resolution Workshop at Quinnipiac University School of Law. Here’s the abstract to the article, which will be published later this spring in the Harvard Negotiation Law Review: Leverage has been called “negotiation’s prime mover,” conferring power to reach agreement “on your terms.” This power, however, is not always...
