Abstract:
:Recent years have seen enormous demand amongst policy makers for new insights from the behavioural sciences, especially neuroscience. This demand is matched by an increasing willingness on behalf of behavioural scientists to translate the policy implications of their work. But can neuroscience really help shape the governance of a nation? Or does this represent growing misuse of neuroscience to attach scientific authority to policy, plus a clutch of neuroscientists trying to overstate their findings for a taste of power?
journal_name
Trends Cogn Scijournal_title
Trends in cognitive sciencesauthors
Seymour B,Vlaev Idoi
10.1016/j.tics.2012.07.005subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2012-09-01 00:00:00pages
449-51issue
9eissn
1364-6613issn
1879-307Xpii
S1364-6613(12)00171-4journal_volume
16pub_type
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