Are you good or evil?

Hill, Bernard, 1944- (Added Author). Stockley, Nicola (Added Author). British Broadcasting Corporation. (Added Author). McNabb Connolly (Firm). (Added Author).

Summary: "This program seeks to determine if there is a physical source behind people's moral impulses and whether notorious psychopaths, clearly deficient in morality, are in actuality "born bad." Are You Good or Evil? uses brain scans to compare and contrast the brains of law-abiding and criminal adults; considers brain scan evidence suggesting that psychopaths have abnormalities in the part of the brain that deals with emotions and impulses; and shows how scientific assessments of brain scans and upbringing can be combined to predict the likelihood of whether a child will grow up to be a criminal. The video also speculates as to whether a plea of "defective moral hardwiring" could be used as a defense in court." --container

Record details

Physical Description: videorecording (DVD)
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1 videodisc (59 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Publisher: London : BBC : Mississauga, ON : McNabb Connolly [distributor], c2011

Content descriptions

General Note:	Originally broadcast as an episode of the BBC documentary television program Horizon 7 September, 2011. DVD-R format. No scene indexing. 10-min. "skip" segments.
Formatted Contents Note:	Biology of Vice and Virtue (1:37) -- Logic and Instinct in the Virtual World (3:36) -- Humans: Moral Beings (2:26) -- Are Babies Born Good or Bad? (5:02) -- Chemistry: Basis for Human Morality? (2:31) -- Biology of Cooperation (2:15) -- Oxytocin: the Moral Molecule (2:15) -- Against Natural Moral Instincts (2:49) -- Trained Killers vs. Natural Morality (2:11) -- To Defend and Protect (0:36) -- To Understand Evil (1:24) -- Violent Killers: Without Conscience (1:58) -- Psychopaths: Without Emotion (2:07) -- Brain of the Psychopath (3:28) -- Genetic Brain Disorder (2:18) -- Neuroscientist: Brain of a Psychopath (4:59) -- Destined to Kill? (1:59) -- Charming Psychopath (3:15) -- Psychopaths in Corporate America (2:00) -- Genetic Evidence (5:36) -- Genetics and a Jury's Verdict (1:57) -- Behavioral Genomics (1:44) -- Credits: Are You Good or Evil? (0:37)
Creation/Production Credits Note:	Written & directed by Nicola Stockley.
Participant or Performer Note:	Narrated by Bernard Hill.