Browsing by Subject "Actions and defenses -- United States -- Psychological aspects"

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    • Psychological Barriers to Litigation Settlement: An Experimental Approach 
      Guthrie, Chris; Korobkin, Russell (Michigan Law Review, 1994)
      The traditional economic model of settlement breakdown -- as developed by Priest and Klein -- provides an important first step in understanding why some lawsuits settle and others go to trial. Rational miscalculation ...
    • Psychology, Economics, and Settlement: A New Look at the Role of the Lawyer 
      Guthrie, Chris; Korobkin, Russell (Texas Law Review, 1997)
      Law and economics models of litigation settlement, based on the behavioral assumptions of rational choice theory, ignore the many psychological reasons that settlement negotiations can fail, yet they accurately predict ...
    • Understanding Settlement in Damages (and Beyond) 
      Guthrie, Chris (Journal of Dispute Resolution, 2004)
      For all of the ways in which the Sabia case is extraordinary, its outcome--settlement--is decidedly ordinary. In most civil litigation, as in the Sabias' litigation against Dr. Maryellen Humes and Norwalk Hospital, ...