Research Handbook on Law and Psychology

Edited by Rebecca Hollander-Blumoff, Professor of Law, Washington University School of Law, US

Contents:

1 Law and psychology: an introduction 1
Rebecca Hollander-Blumoff

PART I FRAMEWORKS, THEMES, AND THEORIES
2 Through a lens brightly: a glimpse into the history of law-psychology
through its textbooks 17
Brian H. Bornstein
3 The legitimacy of legal institutions 34
Tom R. Tyler
4 Small world behavioral law and economics 49
Gregory Mitchell
5 Law and emotion 64
Terry A. Maroney
6 A system justification perspective on law, human behavior, and society 83
Daniela Goya-Tocchetto, Rebecca Ponce de Leon and John T. Jost

PART II PSYCHOLOGY AND LEGAL PROCEDURE
7 Trial by jury: psychological research contributions to an enduring legal
institution 108
Mikaela Spruill and Valerie P. Hans
8 Jury selection and race 122
Catherine M. Grosso and Barbara O’Brien
9 Who cares about evidence scholarship (and why psychologists should)? 136
Justin Sevier
10 Standards of proof: theories and evidence 152
Robert J. MacCoun
11 The brain in court: from neuroscience “revolution” to neurotech upgrade? 169
Amanda Pustilnik

PART III THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CRIMINAL LAW, CRIMINAL
PROCEDURE, CRIMINAL TRIALS, AND CRIMINAL
BEHAVIOR
12 The psychological causes of criminal confessions 183
Stephanie Madon, Kyle Scherr and Ryan Ditchfield
13 Eyewitness testimony: the perilous effects of contamination and social
influence 199
Jennifer E. Dysart
14 Expanding conceptualizations of youths’ juvenile legal decision making 215
Emily Haney-Caron and Lili Ramos
15 The psychology of arson 229
Nichola Tyler and Theresa Gannon

PART IV PSYCHOLOGY AND LEGAL DOCTRINE
16 What we know and don’t know about the psychology of tort law 245
Jennifer K. Robbennolt and Valerie P. Hans
17 Psychologically hazardous real estate transactions: the land installment
contract 261
Stephanie M. Stern
18 Corporate law and psychology 277
Donald C. Langevoort
19 The psychology of health law 291
Kenworthey Bilz and Qiaoyuan Zhi
20 Environmental law and psychology 306
Arden Rowell, Kenworthey Bilz and Howard Jyun-Syun Li

PART V PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIETY
21 Expressive law and social norms 328
Janice Nadler
22 Legitimacy, relational norms and reciprocity 343
Ben Bradford and Jonathan Jackson
23 Judicial behavioral realism about implicit bias 361
Jerry Kang
24 How people attend to race: implications for legal judgments of video
evidence 378
Yael Granot and JingYan Xu
25 Overcoming identity-based hierarchies: understanding psychological
barriers and motivating social justice through intergroup contact 393
Rachel D. Godsil, Kim Forde-Mazrui and Linda R. Tropp

PART VI THE PSYCHOLOGY OF LAWYERS AND LAWYERING
26 The psychology of lawyers in litigation and negotiation 418
Jean Sternlight
27 The social psychological study of access to justice 433
Victor Quintanilla

PART VII THE GLOBAL REACH OF LAW AND PSYCHOLOGY
28 Psychology and justice in Taiwan: the emerging focus on miscarriages
of justice 451
Yee-San Teoh and Kai-Ping Su
29 The behavioral turn in international legal scholarship 462
Eva Leora van der Zee