{"id":106900,"date":"2020-02-24T11:18:48","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T16:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/106900///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/106900//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/106900//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/106900//?p=106900"},"modified":"2020-02-24T14:09:50","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T19:09:50","slug":"new-study-offers-clues-to-origin-of-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/106900///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/106900//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/106900//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/106900//new-study-offers-clues-to-origin-of-laws/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/106900//","title":{"rendered":"New Study Offers Clues to Origin of Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speculation about where laws come from ranges from crediting judges and legal scholars to God./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/106900/n

However new research co-authored by a 女仆AV researcher and appearing in the journal Nature Human Behaviour today offers evidence that criminal laws come from an intuitive and shared, universal sense of justice that humans possess./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/106900/n

/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/106900/u201cWe sometimes think of the law as this completely rational enterprise that is the result of wise experts sitting around a table and working from logical principles,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/106900/u201d says Carlton Patrick, an assistant professor in the 女仆AV/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/106900/u2019s Department of Legal Studies and study co-author. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/106900/u201cAnd instead, what this study suggests is that these intuitions that people tend to share about justice may be the things that are becoming institutionalized./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/106900/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/106900/n

Patrick and Daniel Sznycer, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Montreal and the study/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/106900/u2019s lead author, made the finding by comparing modern and ancient people/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/106900/u2019s sense of whether a punishment fits a crime./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/106900/n

And while previous studies have examined people/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/106900/u2019s intuitions about justice, this is the first one that compared them across thousands of years./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/106900/n