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Coordinated punishment leads to increased cooperation in large groups, suggests a new American research.

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The issue of retributivism and punishment has been a common theme on both the Garden and Forking Paths and Flickers of Freedom. My present purpose is to try to briefly get clear on the salient terms and themes of the debate. Because this is the first of what will be a series of posts by me in the coming months on retributivism, I want to define some of the key terms up front to prevent confusion downstream.

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As a species, we value fair play. We're like it so much that we're willing to eschew material gains in order to punish cheaters who behave unjustly. Psychological games have set these maxims in stone, but new research shows us that this sense of justice is, to a large extent, influenced by our genes.

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The level of activity in the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex correlated with the level of responsibility that the volunteers assigned to the defendant, whereas activity in the amygdala, the medial prefrontal cortex and the posterior cingulate cortex predicted punishment magnitude, indicating that distinct neural systems underlie the two processes in legal decision making. (Deric Bownds' MindBlog)

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