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I see the implications of this are enormous. The first example that comes to my mind is criminal prosecution.

The second are software salesman. I have seen a lot of smart people who bought from Vignette, Oracle, Microsoft... Now they have an excuse...

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I don't think this study speaks to anything about criminal persecution. This study was about the effect of one expert against a person's own judgement. What you're talking about is the effect of the opinion of two competing experts (persecution and defence).

My hunch is that having two expert opinions would be similar to having no expert advice, in terms of fMRI activity.

Not at all. I am worried about the implications on the study conclusions on interrogation techniques. The validity of a confession obtained under coercion can be questioned when you show the effect an "expert" opinion can have on someone's own capacity to assess his/her situation.

Cops will need to interrogate their suspects inside an fMRI machine...