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Contract Theory In Nineteenth-Century Indiana Courts: An Argument For Non-Bargain Based Promissory Liability, Paul Dubbeling
Contract Theory In Nineteenth-Century Indiana Courts: An Argument For Non-Bargain Based Promissory Liability, Paul Dubbeling
Indiana Law Journal
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Law And The Emotions: The Problems Of Affective Forecasting, Jeremy A. Blumenthal
Law And The Emotions: The Problems Of Affective Forecasting, Jeremy A. Blumenthal
Indiana Law Journal
Legal scholarship on "behavioralism" and the implications of cognitive biases for the law is flourishing. In parallel with the rise of such commentary, legal scholars have begun to discuss the role of the emotions in legal discourse. This discussion often addresses the "appropriateness" of various emotions for the substantive law, or attempts to model the place of the emotions in the law. Implicit in some of these theories, however, and explicit in others, is the assumption that emotions are "predictable," "manageable, "and (for some commentators) under conscious control. This assumption is belied by psychological research on affective forecasting that demonstrates …