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American Psychology-Law Society Ser.: Psychology of Judicial Decision Making by Gregory Mitchell (2010, Hardcover)

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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100195367588

ISBN-139780195367584

eBay Product ID (ePID)77958921

Product Key Features

Number of Pages360 Pages

Publication NamePsychology of Judicial Decision Making

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2010

SubjectJudicial Power, Clinical Psychology

TypeTextbook

AuthorGregory Mitchell

Subject AreaLaw, Psychology

SeriesAmerican Psychology-Law Society Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight22.3 Oz

Item Length6.4 in

Item Width9.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2009-023896

Dewey Edition22

TitleLeadingThe

Reviews"The book is truly interdisciplinary, with many chapters covering two or three disciplines (law, psychology, and political science). Much of the work shows a solid understanding and appreciation for research in other disciplines...This would be a welcome text to any undergraduate class addressing judicial politics, political psychology, decision making, or one that specifically focuses on the role of judges." -- Department of Political Science, University ofKentucky, "The book is truly interdisciplinary, with many chapters covering two or three disciplines (law, psychology, and political science). Much of the work shows a solid understanding and appreciation for research in other disciplines...This would be a welcome text to any undergraduate class addressing judicial politics, political psychology, decision making, or one that specifically focuses on the role of judges." -- Department of Political Science, University of Kentucky

Number of Volumes1 vol.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal347.73/14019

Table Of ContentIntroductionPart I: Judges and Human BehaviorMotivation and Judicial Behavior: Expanding the Scope of InquiryMultiple Constraint Satisfaction in JudgingTop-Down and Bottom-Up Models of Judicial ReasoningPersuasion in the Decision Making of U.S. Supreme Court JusticesJudges as Members of Small GroupsThe Supreme Court, Social Psychology, and Group FormationPart II: Judging as Specialized ActivityIs There a Psychology of Judging?Features of Judicial ReasoningIn Praise of Pedantic Eclecticism: Pitfalls and Opportunities in the Psychology of JudgingJudges, Expertise, and AnalogyThresholds For Action in Judicial DecisionsEvery Jury Trial Is a Bench Trial: Judicial Engineering of Jury DisputesSearching for Constraint in Legal Decision MakingPart III: Evaluating and Improving JudgingEvaluating JudgesDefining Good JudgingExpertise of Court JudgesCognitive Style and JudgingBuilding a Better JudiciaryReferences

SynopsisOver the years, psychologists have devoted uncountable hours to learning how human beings make judgments and decisions. As much progress as scholars have made in explaining what judges do over the past few decades, there remains a certain lack of depth to our understanding. Even where scholars can make consensual and successful predictions of a judge's behavior, they will often disagree sharply about exactly what happens in the judge's mind to generate thepredicted result. This volume of essays examines the psychological processes that underlie judicial decision making., While scholars in the past several decades have made great progress in explaining what judges do, there remains a certain lack of depth to our understanding. This volume grew from a belief that close examination of the psychological processes underlying judicial decision making can greatly enrich this understanding. The collected essays map ways of incorporating key concepts and findings from psychology into the study of judging.The firstsection of the book takes as its starting point the fact that judges make many of the same judgments and decisions that ordinary people make and considers how our knowledge about judgment anddecision-making in general applies to the case of legal judges. In the second section, chapters focus on the specific tasks that judges perform within a unique social setting and examine the expertise and particular modes of reasoning that judges develop to deal with their tasks in this unique setting. Finally, the third section raises questions about whether and how we can evaluate judicial performance, with implications for the possibility of improving judging through the selection andtraining of judges and structuring of judicial institutions. Together the essays will foster a better understand how judges make decisions, and open new avenues of inquiry into influences on judicialbehavior., While scholars in the past several decades have made great progress in explaining what judges do, there remains a certain lack of depth to our understanding. This volume grew from a belief that close examination of the psychological processes underlying judicial decision making can greatly enrich this understanding. The collected essays map ways of incorporating key concepts and findings from psychology into the study of judging.The first section of the book takes as its starting point the fact that judges make many of the same judgments and decisions that ordinary people make and considers how our knowledge about judgment and decision-making in general applies to the case of legal judges. In the second section, chapters focus on the specific tasks that judges perform within a unique social setting and examine the expertise and particular modes of reasoning that judges develop to deal with their tasks in this unique setting. Finally, the third section raises questions about whether and how we can evaluate judicial performance, with implications for the possibility of improving judging through the selection and training of judges and structuring of judicial institutions. Together the essays will foster a better understand how judges make decisions, and open new avenues of inquiry into influences on judicial behavior., While scholars in the past several decades have made great progress in explaining what judges do, there remains a certain lack of depth to our understanding. This volume grew from a belief that close examination of the psychological processes underlying judicial decision making can greatly enrich this understanding. The collected essays map ways of incorporating key concepts and findings from psychology into the study of judging. The first section of the book takes as its starting point the fact that judges make many of the same judgments and decisions that ordinary people make and considers how our knowledge about judgment and decision-making in general applies to the case of legal judges. In the second section, chapters focus on the specific tasks that judges perform within a unique social setting and examine the expertise and particular modes of reasoning that judges develop to deal with their tasks in this unique setting. Finally, the third section raises questions about whether and how we can evaluate judicial performance, with implications for the possibility of improving judging through the selection and training of judges and structuring of judicial institutions. Together the essays will foster a better understand how judges make decisions, and open new avenues of inquiry into influences on judicial behavior.

LC Classification NumberKF8775.P78 2010