Principles in the judgment/decision making literature relevant to the legal community are
reviewed. These principles are divided into four areas: the decision process itself …

Comments on the article by R. Hastie et al (see record 1998-04034-003) and N. Vidmar's
(see record 1999-15875-006) critique of the Hastie et al study that examined civil juries' …

Abstract THE BOOK, INTENDED AS A CLASSROOM TEXT FOR GRADUATE AND
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE, SOCIOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY …

Either it is not the same or it is not real-lack of comparability among cases or the absence of
authenticity are the Scylla and Charybdis of empirical study of judicial decisionmaking.'A …

This chapter has three purposes. The first purpose is to develop a method for determining
the values of jurors regarding their propensities to convict or acquit. The second purpose is …

This article addresses the role of quantitative evidence and methods in trials. Major
arguments against the introduction of explicit computation information are considered and …

Concerns about hindsight in the law typically arise with regard to the bias that outcome
knowledge can produce. But a more difficult problem than the clear view that hindsight …

S tudying the dependence of court decisions on facts can be clearly associated with
traditional conceptions of the judicial process. There are, however, salient problems in the …

How do ordinary people make judicial decisions? Though this question is fundamental to
any practical understanding of the role and performance of lay juries, it does not yet have a …

How do judges and jurors decide cases? Though obviously central to the law, the mental
processes for making decisions remain an opaque feature at the heart of legal discourse …