Why Your Brain Judges Guilt Before It Hears the Evidence

You already have a feeling about a stranger's guilt before you've heard a single fact — and that feeling isn't reasoning at all. This episode traces the split-second judgment your brain makes about a face back a hundred thousand years, through the research of psychologists Alexander Todorov and Solomon Asch, and into the jury box, the interview room, and the comment section you scrolled through this morning.