Avengers, Avoiders and Lumpers : The Incidence of Disputing Style on Litigiousness
19 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice
Posted: 23 May 2020
Date Written: January 1, 2001
Abstract
This article argues that psychological factors play a major role in disputants' decision to resort to the court system, and that a person's propensity to do so is a function of his\her attitudes toward State institutions and his\her personal disputing style.
This article is based on an empirical study exploring the existence of such disputing style in the context of landlord-tenant relationships. Accounts of real-life disputes gathered through interviews with tenants having recently faced problems with their landlords are used in order to build a typology of disputing styles. A statistical analysis of the role played in this typology by four personality traits is then undertaken.
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