Just pulling one point from the article; its interesting that sentencing is often based on 'gut feeling' of the offenders level of remorse. It makes me think of

Just pulling one point from the article; its interesting that sentencing is often based on 'gut feeling' of the offenders level of remorse. It makes me think of the research of John Gottman, who developed a system to predict divorce rates with surprising accuracy from analysing a single conversation. I wonder if his technique's could be applied for a more scientific and perhaps more accurate judgement of remorse.