Anna Spain Bradley, "Human Choice in International Law" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
New Books in Neuroscience
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Why Judges Should Set Away Their Emotions in Ampathy When Making Choices?
The old idea that people have leftbr right brain, and you can separate things out is really outdated. Instead, our brain is a fantastic and sometimes daringly scary network of activity,. And what we do also know from specific studies, is that when we're engaging in what we consider to be a choice, the cognitive functions that produce a choice are broad. They can result in decisions, they can result in assumptions, they canresult in judgments and assessments. Those areas intersect across imotion, the places that we process in motion, the places we process memory which may raise empathy or bias as we recall things that have happened in our past. So it's a long, complex way of saying
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