Disability and Aging Discrimination

Professor Wiener received his Ph.D. from the University of Houston and his Masters Degree in Legal Studies at UNL. He was professor of Psychology at Saint Louis University (1982- 2000) and most recently chair of the Department of Psychology at Baruch College, City University of New York. In 2002 Dr. Wiener joined the Law-Psychology Program (as director) and the Social Psychology Program at UNL. He is the former editor of Law and Human Behavior, the official journal of the American Psychology/Law Society (Division 41 of the APA). Dr. Wiener's research applies theories of social cognition to problems in legal decision-making. Among the topic areas he has investigated are perceptions of sexual harassment and jury decision making. Specifically, Dr. Wiener studies the role of generic prejudice in criminal cases and he studies how jurors reach capital murder decisions in assigning penalties. The National Science Foundation has funded and continues to fund this work. Currently, Dr. Wiener applies social cognitive theories of emotion, motivation, dual process of cognitive processing to explain how legal actors reach decisions relevant to law and policy. Other topics of investigation include the role of implicit attitude activation in generic prejudice, the role of emotions in jury judgments as they develop across the presentation of criminal cases, the role of mortality salience in death penalty judgments, and the role of counterfactual thinking in negligence judgments. Dr. Wiener teaches courses at UNL on behavioral sciences and the law and legal decision making.

Finding the Assumptions in the Law: Social Analytic Jurisprudence, Disabled, and Aging Workers.- Part I: Aging and Discrimination.- Ageism: The Strange Case of Prejudice Against the Older You.- Disability and Aging: Historical and Contemporary Views.- The Aging Workforce and Paid Time Off.- Baby Boomers at Work: Growing Older and Working More.- Part II: Disability and Discrimination.- The Relationship Between Disability Discrimination and Age Discrimination in Workers’ Compensation.- The Stigma of Disabilities and the Americans With Disabilities Act.- Age and Disability Within the Scope of American Discrimination Law.- Implicit Attitudes and Discrimination Against People with Physical Disabilities.- Cross Cultural Perspectives on Stigma.- Disability and Procedural Fairness in the Workplace.- Procedural Justice and the Structure of the Age and Disability Laws.- A Social Psychological Perspective of Disability Prejudice.