Shocking A Person’s Brain Could Make Them Less Violent
A team of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have conducted a study they claim shows minimally invasive shocks to a person’s brain makes them less likely to commit a violent crime.
A team of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have conducted a study they claim shows minimally invasive shocks to a person’s brain makes them less likely to commit a violent crime. Such shocks may also increase perceptions of violence and aggression as morally wrong.
81 adults were divided into two groups. One group received brain shocks to the prefrontal cortex, the frontmost part of the brain critical for planning and decision making, for 20 minutes. The other group did not receive shocks. All participants, shocked or not, were then presented with two scenarios about physical and sexual assault and asked how likely they were to commit such acts on a scale of 1 to 10.
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