The psychology of judicial decision making /
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. |
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| Description: | xv, 338 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | American Psychology-Law Society series American Psychology-Law Society series. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7898948 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I. Judges and Human Behavior
- Motivation and Judicial Behavior: Expanding the Scope of Inquiry
- Multiple Constraint Satisfaction in Judging
- Top-Down and Bottom-Up Models of Judicial Reasoning
- Persuasion in the Decision Making of U.S. Supreme Court Justices
- Judges as Members of Small Groups
- The Supreme Court, Social Psychology, and Group Formation
- Part II. Judging as Specialized Activity
- Is There a Psychology of Judging?
- Features of Judicial Reasoning
- In Praise of Pedantic Eclecticism: Pitfalls and Opportunities in the Psychology of Judging
- Judges, Expertise, and Analogy
- Thresholds For Action in Judicial Decisions
- Every Jury Trial Is a Bench Trial: Judicial Engineering of Jury Disputes
- Searching for Constraint in Legal Decision Making
- Part III. Evaluating and Improving Judging
- Evaluating Judges
- Defining Good Judging
- Expertise of Court Judges
- Cognitive Style and Judging
- Building a Better Judiciary
- References
