Book Review: Payback: Why We Retaliate, Redirect Aggression, and Take Revenge

Book Review: Payback: Why We Retaliate, Redirect Aggression, and Take Revenge

Regrettably, revenge is in the spotlight. Just to mention three recent examples, the news1 (15th November 2015) defined the bombs dropped by France on Islamic State Jihadi training camp after the Paris shootings as “revenge.” Only 2 days after, president Putin literally claimed on TV that “revenge is unavoidable”2 (17th November 2015) toward the Syrian rebels responsible for the Russian jet dow...

Why We Should Take a Closer Look at Gestures.

Gesture is an integral feature of nonverbal communication that serves as an outward manifestation of several interacting fundamental processes including motor behavior, language, and sensory integration. Likewise, gesturing has been linked to semantic retrieval, learning, and communicative ability. Indeed, processing of gesture performance and perception involves cerebral networks of multimodal...

Review of “Forgiveness and Revenge”

Book Note Galileo's Revenge: Junk Science in the Courtroom

Scientists, as expert witnesses, can aid juries greatly in their deliberations by explaining technical matters in terms easily comprehensible to jurors. When, however, the expert testimony is based on mere conjecture, speculation, or poor methodology, it can mislead the jury. Such evidence is commonly referred to as junk science.: Contrary to what might be expected, junk science results not onl...

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