Browsing Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Works by Subject "Emotions"

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    • Angry Judges 
      Maroney, Terry A. (Vanderbilt Law Review, 2012)
      Judges get angry. Law, however, is of two minds as to whether they should; more importantly, it is of two minds as to whether judges’ anger should influence their behavior and decision making. On the one hand, anger is the ...
    • Better Settle than Sorry: The Regret Aversion Theory of Litigation Behavior 
      Guthrie, Chris (University of Illinois Law Review, 1999)
      Legal scholars have developed two dominant theories of litigation behavior: the Economic Theory of Suit and Settlement,which is based on expected utility theory, and the Framing Theory of Litigation, which is based on ...
    • Emotional Common Sense as Constitutional Law 
      Maroney, Terry A. (Vanderbilt Law Review, 2009)
      In Gonzales v. Carhart the Supreme Court invoked post-abortion regret to justify a ban on a particular abortion procedure. The Court was proudly folk-psychological, representing its observations about women's emotional ...
    • The Impact of the Impact Bias on Negotiation 
      Guthrie, Chris; Sally, David (Marquette Law Review, 2004)
      The theory of principled or problem-solving negotiation assumes that negotiators are able to identify their interests (or what they really want) in a negotiation. Recent research on effective forecasting calls this assumption ...
    • Risk Realization, Emotion, and Policy Making 
      Guthrie, Chris (Missouri Law Review, 2004)
      In their study of terrorism and SARS, Professor Feigenson and his colleagues report "significant positive correlations between people's risk perceptions and their negative affect." In their review of the judgment and ...