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2006

Emotion

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Emotion And The Law: A Framework For Inquiry, Richard L. Wiener, Brian H. Bornstein, Amy Voss May 2006

Emotion And The Law: A Framework For Inquiry, Richard L. Wiener, Brian H. Bornstein, Amy Voss

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

This paper draws on research in social and cognitive psychology to show how theories of judgment and decision making that incorporate decision makers’ affective responses apply to legal contexts. It takes 2 widely used models of decision making, the rational actor and lens models, and illustrates their utility for understanding legal judgments by using them to interpret research findings on juror decision making, people’s obedience to the law (e.g., paying taxes), and eyewitness memory. The paper concludes with a discussion of the advantages of modifying existing approaches to information processing to include the influence of affect on how legal actors …