Anyone who knows the comic will know about the characters and what they represent: 1) The Joker = chaos, 2) The Batman = order; 3) Two Face = pure chance. There are many lines in the film which "spank your face" with these metaphors, and if the acting was not so good, the joker's lines could have easily been over the top in making the deeper, existential questions within the film too obvious and contrived for most moviegoers.

Would you feel like you'd still like to be president after you have just been liberated from six years of captivity?

Judges are now being educated about neuroscience and law.

Explaining the phenomenon of wife-killing is difficult, as love is concerned with benevolent activities toward the beloved, whereas killing is the annihilation of the beloved.

It is estimated that over 30% of all female murder victims in the United States die at the hands of a former or present spouse or boyfriend. How can murdering a beloved be associated with love?

What causes someone to one day go out and kill as many apparently random victims as they can? Here in this country, we've seen this pattern repeatedly in recent years: Columbine, Virginia Tech, Northern Illinois University, the Omaha mall shootings, etc. Just this past Sunday, it happened in Japan, a country where violent crime rates are far lower than those in the United States and other industrialized nations.

Last Friday, 250 lawyers, neuroscientists, academics and students got together on a Friday afternoon in Houston...

The deficits caused by autism can set the stage for terrible misunderstandings with law enforcement. How can we prevent these unfortunate situations before they happen?

Law, as a human institution, is a system for governing human behavior...The brain, as an organ, is the physiological system that governs individual behavior...Thus, at their very core, law and neuroscience are intimately interwoven.

Welcome to the new Psychology Today blog “Neurisprudence”! Neurisprudence is a term we came up with to describe our present area of inquiry—the intersection of neuroscience and law, or ‘jurisprudence.’ At the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, the Initiative on Neuroscience and Law has begun to move forward with research and experiments into this fascinating area, and Psychology Today invited us to share some of our thoughts on this topic.

At the time of her infamous crime, Andrea Yates was a devout Christian, devoted wife, and dedicated mother of five biblically named children--Mary, Luke, Paul, John and Noah-- ages 6 months to 7 years old. She had given up her career as a nurse, deciding, with her husband's support, to be a full-time mother and to home-school her children. All seemed to be going fine at first. But after the birth of her first child began her gradual descent into hell.

The psychology of viral emails.

Plus: Is it against the law to jinx a baseball team?

Last Saturday night, forty-one-year-old Mark Castillo drowned his three children, ages 2, 4 and 6, in the bathtub of a Baltimore hotel room.