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Waco Tragedy Product Of Groupthink, Aubrey Immelman
Waco Tragedy Product Of Groupthink, Aubrey Immelman
Psychology Faculty Publications
This opinion column employs the eight symptoms of groupthink specified by Irving Janis to evaluate whether the tragic end to the 1993 FBI siege of David Koresh’s Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas — which culminated in deaths of 76 civilians — could have been the product of groupthink.
Mindlessness And Nondurable Precautions, Paul J. Heald
Mindlessness And Nondurable Precautions, Paul J. Heald
Scholarly Works
Assuming initially that negligence law does not make the distinction between durable and nondurable precautions, this Article will first explain in economic terms why the failure of courts to take into account the cost of remembering may nonetheless be efficient. A substantial body of research on the phenomenon of mindless decisionmaking ("scripting") suggests that most remembering is automatic--a nonconscious response to frequently encountered patterns of stimuli. Script theory suggests that once the behavioral script is in place, an automatic response operates at a very low cost. If so, the failure of courts to account for the cost of remembering would …
Snips And Snails And Puppy Dogs’ Tails, That’S What Little Boys Are Made Of. Book Reviews Of American Manhood: Transformations In Masculinity From The Revolution To The Modern Era, By E. Anthony Rotundo, And Power At Play: Sports And The Problem Of Masculinity, By Michael A. Messner, Carlin Meyer
Articles & Chapters
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Introduction: Psychology And Psychiatry In The Law, J. Clark Kelso
Introduction: Psychology And Psychiatry In The Law, J. Clark Kelso
McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles
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Expert Testimony Describing Psychological Syndromes, John E.B. Myers
Expert Testimony Describing Psychological Syndromes, John E.B. Myers
McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles
No abstract provided.
The Ada And Persons With Mental Disabilities: Can Sanist Attitudes Be Undone?, Michael L. Perlin
The Ada And Persons With Mental Disabilities: Can Sanist Attitudes Be Undone?, Michael L. Perlin
Articles & Chapters
No abstract provided.
What Is Therapeutic Jurisprudence?, Michael L. Perlin
What Is Therapeutic Jurisprudence?, Michael L. Perlin
Articles & Chapters
No abstract provided.
Sanism, Social Science, And The Development Of Mental Disability Law Jurisprudence, Michael L. Perlin, D.A. Dorfman
Sanism, Social Science, And The Development Of Mental Disability Law Jurisprudence, Michael L. Perlin, D.A. Dorfman
Articles & Chapters
This article examines the way that "sanist" attitudes (attitudes driven by the same kind of irrational, unconscious and bias-driven stereotypes exhibited in racist and sexist decisionmaking) lead to "pretextual" decisions (in which dishonest testimony is either explicitly or implicitly accepted) in mental disability law jurisprudence. In conjunction with these sanist ends, social science data is teleologically employed by legal decisionmakers, so that it is privileged when it supports a conclusion that the fact-finder wishes to reach but subordinated when it questions such a conclusion. The article examines recent Supreme Court cases in an effort to determine the extent of domination …
Pretexts And Mental Disability Law: The Case Of Competency, Michael L. Perlin
Pretexts And Mental Disability Law: The Case Of Competency, Michael L. Perlin
Articles & Chapters
No abstract provided.
Decoding Right To Refuse Treatment Law, Michael L. Perlin
Decoding Right To Refuse Treatment Law, Michael L. Perlin
Articles & Chapters
No abstract provided.
Some Steps Between Attitudes And Verdicts, Phoebe C. Ellsworth
Some Steps Between Attitudes And Verdicts, Phoebe C. Ellsworth
Book Chapters
Most research that has attempted to predict verdict preferences on the basis of stable juror characteristics, such as attitudes and personality traits, has found that individual differences among jurors are not very useful predictors, accounting for only a small proportion of the variance in verdict choices. Some commentators have therefore concluded that verdicts are overwhelmingly accounted for by "the weight of the evidence," and that differences among jurors have negligible effects. But there is a paradox here: In most cases the weight of the evidence is insufficient to produce firstballot unanimity in the jury (Hans & Vidmar, 1986; Hastie, Penrod, …
Foreword: The Criminal-Civil Distinction And Dangerous Blameless Offenders, Paul H. Robinson
Foreword: The Criminal-Civil Distinction And Dangerous Blameless Offenders, Paul H. Robinson
All Faculty Scholarship
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