SSRN Top Downloads


Click here to see all papers in this category ordered by total downloads

ALL TIME HITS (for all papers in SSRN eLibrary)
TOP 10 Papers for Journal of Law, Cognition, & Decisionmaking eJournal

January 2, 1997 to May 18, 2013



Rank Downloads Paper Title
1 18347 Underwater and Not Walking Away: Shame, Fear and the Social Management of the Housing Crisis
Brent T. White,
University of Arizona - James E. Rogers College of Law,
Date posted to database: October 27, 2009
Last Revised: October 29, 2010
2 10024 The Storrs Lectures: Behavioral Economics and Paternalism
Cass R. Sunstein,
Harvard University - Law School - Faculty,
Date posted to database: December 2, 2012
Last Revised: December 8, 2012
3 7286 Cultural Cognition of Scientific Consensus
Dan M. Kahan, Hank Jenkins-Smith, Donald Braman,
Yale University - Law School, University of Oklahoma, George Washington University - Law School,
Date posted to database: February 8, 2010
Last Revised: April 16, 2013
4 6591 The Tragedy of the Risk-Perception Commons: Culture Conflict, Rationality Conflict, and Climate Change
Dan M. Kahan, Maggie Wittlin, Ellen Peters, Paul Slovic, Lisa Larrimore Ouellette, Donald Braman, Gregory N. Mandel,
Yale University - Law School, Yale University - Law School, Ohio State University - Psychology Department, Decision Research, Yale Law School Information Society Project, George Washington University - Law School, Temple University - James E. Beasley School of Law,
Date posted to database: June 24, 2011
Last Revised: April 16, 2013
5 3396 Warning: Physics Envy May be Hazardous to Your Wealth!
Andrew W. Lo, Mark T. Mueller,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Theoretical Physics,
Date posted to database: March 5, 2010
Last Revised: March 15, 2010
6 2781 Social Privacy in Networked Publics: Teens’ Attitudes, Practices, and Strategies
danah boyd, Alice E. Marwick,
Microsoft Research, Microsoft Corporation - Microsoft Research New England,
Date posted to database: September 10, 2011
Last Revised: January 3, 2013
7 2487 Historical Simulations - Motivational, Ethical and Legal Issues
Peter Jenkins,
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School,
Date posted to database: September 11, 2006
Last Revised: January 10, 2011
8 2331 Tiger Cub Strikes Back: Memoirs of an Ex-Child Prodigy About Legal Education and Parenting
Peter H. Huang,
University of Colorado at Boulder - School of Law,
Date posted to database: November 12, 2011
Last Revised: November 19, 2012
9 1842 Take This House and Shove It: The Emotional Drivers of Strategic Default
Brent T. White,
University of Arizona - James E. Rogers College of Law,
Date posted to database: May 10, 2010
Last Revised: May 15, 2010
10 1699 Law and Behavioral Biology
Owen D. Jones, Timothy H. Goldsmith,
Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences, Yale University - Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology (MCDB),
Date posted to database: March 31, 2005
Last Revised: August 15, 2005

RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days)
TOP 10 Papers for Journal of Law, Cognition, & Decisionmaking eJournal

March 19, 2013 to May 18, 2013



Rank Downloads Paper Title
1 270 Teaching Law Students How to Become Metacognitive Thinkers
Edwin S. Fruehwald,
Unaffiliated Authors - Independent,
Date posted to database: April 2, 2013
Last Revised: April 15, 2013
2 125 Why Motives Matter: Reframing the Crowding Out Effect of Legal Incentives
Emad Hanzala Atiq,
Yale University, Law School,
Date posted to database: April 1, 2013
Last Revised: April 10, 2013
3 110 The Public Psychology of Intellectual Property
Gregory N. Mandel,
Temple University - James E. Beasley School of Law,
Date posted to database: March 29, 2013
Last Revised: March 29, 2013
4 80 Perception and Persuasion in Legal Argumentation: Using Informal Fallacies and Cognitive Biases to Win the War of Words
Cory S. Clements,
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School,
Date posted to database: March 21, 2013
Last Revised: March 28, 2013
5 66 Shame, Regret, and Contract Design
Eric A. Zacks,
Wayne State University Law School,
Date posted to database: April 9, 2013
Last Revised: April 17, 2013
6 62 Junior Seau, Head Trauma, and the NFL's Concussion Problem
andré douglas pond cummings,
Indiana Tech - Law School,
Date posted to database: April 21, 2013
Last Revised: April 21, 2013
7 47 From Tiger Mom to Panda Parent
Peter H. Huang,
University of Colorado at Boulder - School of Law,
Date posted to database: April 12, 2013
Last Revised: April 12, 2013
8 46 Do the Right Thing: Indirect Remedies in Private Law
Daphna Lewinsohn-Zamir,
Hebrew University - Faculty of Law,
Date posted to database: May 1, 2013
Last Revised: May 1, 2013
9 42 Implicit Racial Bias in Public Defender Triage
L. Song Richardson, Phillip Atiba Goff,
University of Iowa - College of Law, UCLA Department of Psychology,
Date posted to database: May 3, 2013
Last Revised: May 3, 2013
10 39 Micropaternalism
David Adam Friedman,
Willamette University College of Law,
Date posted to database: March 22, 2013
Last Revised: April 4, 2013



  Other SSRN Resources

To search for other abstracts/papers in the SSRN Electronic Library by author, title or abstract text, click here.

To Browse the SSRN Electronic Library by journal or topic click here.

To Browse the SSRN Electronic Library by JEL (Journal of Economic Literature) Code click here.

To order a membership to an SSRN Network or to subscribe to one or more SSRN journals, go to our online subscription request form.

To go to the SSRN Home page click here.

© 2013 Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc. All Rights Reserved.  FAQ   Terms of Use   Privacy Policy   Copyright
This page was processed by apollo5 in 0.360 seconds