Social Consciousness in Legal Decision Making

This volume covers four current and controversial areas in law and social life from the perspective of law, psychology, and behavioral decision theory. The book is a guide to understanding the actual effects of law on everyday life situations. It contrasts this with the assumptions that law makes in the same circumstances, and then lists the ways in which the law is correct and incorrect about how people think in these situations. There is no other book that directly examines the role of psychology in substantive law and legal decision making. The book consists of four substantive units, each assessing the assumptions that the law makes about human judgement and decision making in a specific area.

Consists of four substantive units, each assessing the assumptions that the law makes about human judgement and decision making in a specific area Examines the effects of law on the lives of workers, students, citizens, attorneys, administrators and police investigators A guide to understand the valuable contribution of social scientific research in policy formulation in the law Addresses the role of psychology in substantive law and legal decision making Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Law and Everyday Decision Making: Rational, Descriptive, and Normative Models.- Investigative Profiling: Legal Developments and Empirical Research.- The Rhetoric of Racial Profiling.- Racial Profiling, Attributions of Motive, and the Acceptance of Social Authority.- Racial Profiling as a Minority Issue.- Affirmative Action: Legal Developments and Empirical Research.- Affirmative Action and the Courts: From Plessy to Brown to Grutter, and Back?.- The University of Michigan Cases: Social Scientific Studies of Diversity and Fairness.- Social Science in the Courts: The View from Michigan.- Workplace Discrimination: Legal Developments and Empirical Research in Sexual Harassment.- How Can We Make Our Research on Sexual Harassment More Useful in Legal Decision Making?.- Totality of Circumstances in Sexual Harassment Decisions: A Decision-Making Model.- What Can Researchers Tell the Courts, and What Can the Courts Tell Researchers About Sexual Harassment?.- Hate Speech and Hate Crimes: Legal Developments and Empirical Research.- The Hate Crime Project and Its Limitations: Evaluating the Societal Gains and Risk in Bias Crime Law Enforcement.- Implications of Automatic and Controlled Processes in Stereotyping for Hate Crime Perpetration and Litigation Margaret Bull Kovera.- Implicit Bias and Hate Crimes: A Psychological Framework and Critical Race Theory Analysis.- Psychology and Legal Decision Making: Where Should We Go From Here?.