Browsing by Subject "Judges -- Psychology"

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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 ...
    • Emotional Regulation and Judicial Behavior 
      Maroney, Terry A. (California Law Review, 2011)
      Judges are human and experience emotion when hearing cases, though the standard account of judging long has denied that fact. In the post-realist era it is possible to acknowledge that judges have emotional reactions to ...
    • The Emotionally Intelligent Judge 
      Maroney, Terry A. (Court Review, 2013)
      Judges, like all of us, have been acculturated to an ideal of dispassion. But judges experience emotion on a regular basis. Judicial emotion must be managed competently. The psychology of emotion regulation can help judges ...
    • Inside the Bankruptcy Judge's Mind 
      Guthrie, Chris; Rachlinski, Jeffrey John; Wistrich, Andrew J. (Boston University Law Review, 2006)
      Specialization is common in medicine. Doctors become oncologists, radiologists, urologists, or even hernia repair specialists. Specialization is also common among practicing lawyers, who become estate planners or products ...
    • Judging by Heuristic: Cognitive Illusions in Judicial Decision Making 
      Guthrie, Chris; Rachlinski, Jeffrey John; Wistrich, Andrew J. (Judicature, 2002)
      The institutional legitmacy of the judiciary depends on the quality of the judgments that judges make. Even the most talented and dedicated judges surely make occasional mistakes, but the public expects judges to avoid ...
    • The Persistent Cultural Script of Judicial Dispassion 
      Maroney, Terry A. (California Law Review, 2011)
      In contemporary Western jurisprudence it is never appropriate for emotion - anger, love, hatred, sadness, disgust, fear, joy - to affect judicial decision-making. A good judge should feel no emotion; if she does, she puts ...