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Law and Psychology

University of Michigan Law School

Michigan Law Review

1990

Behavior

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Beyond Candor, Scott Altman Nov 1990

Beyond Candor, Scott Altman

Michigan Law Review

In Part I, I consider whether judges might hold inaccurate beliefs that make them more candid and constrained. I suggest that even if theories of neutral decisionmaking are incomplete and inaccurate, a legal system in which judges hold these beliefs about their own behavior could have advantages. If many judges believe that they can, should, and do decide almost all cases by following the law, they might behave differently than they would if they held more accurate beliefs. They might behave so as to facilitate repression and denial, because their self-esteem depends on maintaining the belief that they decide as …


Of Literature, Politics, And Crime, Francis A. Allen May 1990

Of Literature, Politics, And Crime, Francis A. Allen

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Seductions of Crime: Moral and Sensual Attractions in Doing Evil