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1.

Conspiracy Theories

Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 08-03, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 199, U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 387

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 17 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 18 Jan 2010

Working Paper Series

Cass R. Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule

Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School

Downloads 38,479

2.

The Dishonesty of Honest People: A Theory of Self-Concept Maintenance

Journal of Marketing Research, Vol. 45, No. 6, pp. 633-644, 2008

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 12 Apr 2007 Last Revised: 08 Apr 2011

Accepted Paper Series

Nina Mazar, On Amir and Dan Ariely

University of Toronto - Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Rady School of Management and Duke University - Fuqua School of Business

Downloads 23,904

3.

Motivated Numeracy and Enlightened Self-Government

Behavioural Public Policy, 1, 54-86, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 307

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 08 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 05 Jun 2017

Accepted Paper Series

Dan M. Kahan, Ellen Peters, Erica Cantrell Dawson and Paul Slovic

Yale University - Law School, Ohio State University - Psychology Department, Cornell University and Decision Research

Downloads 17,933

4.

Cultural Cognition of Scientific Consensus

Journal of Risk Research, Vol. 14, pp. 147-74, 2011, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 205

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 08 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2013

Working Paper Series

Dan M. Kahan, Hank Jenkins-Smith and Donald Braman

Yale University - Law School, University of Oklahoma and George Washington University - Law School

Downloads 12,728

5.

Social Privacy in Networked Publics: Teens’ Attitudes, Practices, and Strategies

A Decade in Internet Time: Symposium on the Dynamics of the Internet and Society, September 2011

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 10 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2013

Accepted Paper Series

danah boyd and Alice E. Marwick

Data & Society Research Institute and Data & Society Research Institute

Downloads 11,093

6.

Drugged Out: How Cognitive Bias Hurts Drug Innovation

51 San Diego Law Review 419 (2014)

Number of pages: 90 Posted: 01 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 09 Aug 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Cynthia M. Ho

Loyola University of Chicago School of Law

Downloads 10,916

7.

Nudging: A Very Short Guide

37 J. Consumer Pol'y 583 (2014)

Number of pages: 7 Posted: 23 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 11 Oct 2015

Accepted Paper Series

Cass R. Sunstein

Harvard Law School

Downloads 8,455

8.

Cultural Cognition as a Conception of the Cultural Theory of Risk

HANDBOOK OF RISK THEORY, S. Roeser, ed., Forthcoming, Harvard Law School Program on Risk Regulation Research Paper No. 08-20, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 222

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 23 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Dan M. Kahan

Yale University - Law School

Downloads 7,277

9.

Climate-Science Communication and the Measurement Problem

Advances in Pol. Psych., 36, 1-43 (2015)

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 02 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 18 Apr 2015

Accepted Paper Series

Dan M. Kahan

Yale University - Law School

Downloads 6,293

10.

Workplace Bullying and Ethical Leadership

Journal of Values-Based Leadership, Vol. 1, No. 2, p. 49, 2008, Suffolk University Law School Research Paper No. 08-37

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 17 Nov 2008 Last Revised: 20 May 2009

Accepted Paper Series

David C. Yamada

Suffolk University Law School

Downloads 5,565

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Ideology, Motivated Reasoning, and Cognitive Reflection: An Experimental Study

Judgment and Decision Making, 8, 407-24 (2013), Cultural Cognition Lab Working Paper No. 107, Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 272

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 30 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 30 Jul 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Dan M. Kahan

Yale University - Law School

Downloads 5,050

12.

In God's Shadow: Unveiling the Hidden World of Victims of Domestic Violence in Observant Religious Communities

11 Rutgers Journal of Law & Public Policy 471 (2014), U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 13-27

Number of pages: 80 Posted: 29 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 09 Aug 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Michal Gilad

University of Pennsylvania Law School

Downloads 4,981

13.

Against Financial Literacy Education

Iowa Law Review, Vol. 94, 2008, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 08-10, Loyola-LA Legal Studies Paper No. 2008-13

Number of pages: 92 Posted: 13 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 09 Jul 2010

Accepted Paper Series

Lauren E. Willis

Loyola Law School Los Angeles

Downloads 4,085

14.

Historical Simulations - Motivational, Ethical and Legal Issues

Journal of Futures Studies, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 23-42, August 2006

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 11 Sep 2006 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Peter Jenkins

York University - Osgoode Hall Law School

Downloads 4,084

15.

Fixing the Communications Failure

Nature, Vol. 463, pp. 296-297, 2010

Number of pages: 4 Posted: 25 Jun 2010

Accepted Paper Series

Dan M. Kahan

Yale University - Law School

Downloads 3,900

16.

The CSI Effect: Popular Fiction About Forensic Science Affects Public Expectations About Real Forensic Science

Jurimetrics, Vol. 47, p. 357, Spring 2007

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 12 Mar 2007

Accepted Paper Series

N. J. Schweitzer and Michael J. Saks

Arizona State University and Arizona State University (ASU) - Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law

Downloads 3,405

17.

Culture and Identity-Protective Cognition: Explaining the White Male Effect in Risk Perception

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 465-505, November 2007, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 152

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 28 Jun 2007 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Dan M. Kahan, Donald Braman, John Gastil, Paul Slovic and C. K. Mertz

Yale University - Law School, George Washington University - Law School, Pennsylvania State University, Decision Research and Decision Research

Downloads 3,316

18.

The Situation: An Introduction to the Situational Character, Critical Realism, Power Economics, and Deep Capture

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 152, p. 129, 2003-2004, Santa Clara Univ. Legal Studies Research Paper No. 06-17, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 08-32

Number of pages: 219 Posted: 17 Oct 2006 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2008

Accepted Paper Series

Jon D. Hanson and David G. Yosifon

Harvard Law School and Santa Clara University - School of Law

Downloads 3,204

19.

Tiger Cub Strikes Back: Memoirs of an Ex-Child Prodigy About Legal Education and Parenting

1 British Journal of American Legal Studies 297 (2012)

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 12 Nov 2011 Last Revised: 19 Nov 2012

Accepted Paper Series

Peter H. Huang

University of Colorado Law School

Downloads 3,131

20.

Police-Induced Confessions: Risk Factors and Recommendations

Law and Human Behavior, 2009, Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2010-13

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 07 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2010

Accepted Paper Series

Saul M. Kassin, Steven A. Drizin, Thomas Grisso, Gisli H. Gudjonsson, Richard A. Leo and Allison D. Redlich

John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Northwestern University - School of Law, Bluhm Legal Clinic, University of Massachusetts Worcester - University of Massachusetts Medical School, King's College London, University of San Francisco - School of Law and State University of New York (SUNY) - School of Criminal Justice

Downloads 3,013

21.

Universal Moral Grammar: Theory, Evidence, and the Future

Trends in Cognitive Sciences, April 2007, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 954398

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 02 Jan 2007

Accepted Paper Series

John Mikhail

Georgetown University Law Center

Downloads 2,978

22.

Making Climate-Science Communication Evidence-Based — All the Way Down

Culture, Politics and Climate Change (eds. M. Boykoff & D. Crow, Routledge Press, 2014 Forthcoming)

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 14 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 16 Jul 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Dan M. Kahan

Yale University - Law School

Downloads 2,774

23.

Brain Imaging for Legal Thinkers: A Guide for the Perplexed

Stanford Technology Law Review, Vol. 5, 2009, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 10-09

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 04 Mar 2010

Accepted Paper Series

Owen D. Jones, Joshua Buckholtz, Jeffrey D. Schall and Rene Marois

Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Neuroscience Program, Vanderbilt University - Department of Psychology and Vanderbilt University - Department of Psychology
Center for Integrative and Cognitive Neuroscience

Downloads 2,754

24.

Blinking on the Bench: How Judges Decide Cases

Cornell Law Review, Forthcoming, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 07-25, Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 07-32

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 02 Nov 2007

Accepted Paper Series

Chris Guthrie, Jeffrey J. Rachlinski and Andrew J. Wistrich

Vanderbilt University - Law School, Cornell Law School and California Central District Court

Downloads 2,751

25.

Vaccine Risk Perceptions and Ad Hoc Risk Communication: An Empirical Assessment

CCP Risk Perception Studies Report No. 17, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper # 491

Number of pages: 82 Posted: 29 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 05 Feb 2015

Working Paper Series

Dan M. Kahan

Yale University - Law School

Downloads 2,610

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The News Media's Influence on Criminal Justice Policy: How Market-Driven News Promotes Punitiveness

William & Mary Law Review, Vol. 48, pp. 397-418, 2006, Duke Law School Legal Studies Paper No. 148

Number of pages: 86 Posted: 22 Feb 2007

Accepted Paper Series

Sara Sun Beale

Duke University School of Law

Downloads 2,571

27.

Theorising the Fear of Crime: The Cultural and Social Significance of Insecurities about Crime

Experience & Expression in the Fear of Crime Working Paper No. 5

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 07 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 19 Mar 2013

Working Paper Series

Stephen Farrall, Emily Gray and Jonathan Jackson

University of Sheffield, University of Sheffield and London School of Economics & Political Science - Department of Methodology

Downloads 2,443

28.

The Polarizing Impact of Science Literacy and Numeracy on Perceived Climate Change Risks

Nature Climate Change, Vol. 2, pp. 732-735, 2012, Temple University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2013-04, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 464, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 278

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 23 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Dan M. Kahan, Ellen Peters, Maggie Wittlin, Paul Slovic, Lisa Larrimore Ouellette, Donald Braman and Gregory N. Mandel

Yale University - Law School, Ohio State University - Psychology Department, University of Nebraska at Lincoln - College of Law, Decision Research, Stanford Law School, George Washington University - Law School and Temple University - James E. Beasley School of Law

Downloads 2,405

29.

The Lethal Injection Quandary: How Medicine Has Dismantled the Death Penalty

Fordham Law Review, Vol. 76, No. 1, pp. 49-128, 2007, Fordham Legal Studies Research Paper No. 983732

Number of pages: 81 Posted: 01 May 2007 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2011

Accepted Paper Series

Deborah W. Denno

Fordham University School of Law

Downloads 2,400

30.

Science Curiosity and Political Information Processing

Advances in Political Psychology, Forthcoming, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 561

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 02 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 07 Oct 2016

Accepted Paper Series

Dan M. Kahan, Asheley R Landrum, Katie Carpenter, Laura Helft and Kathleen Hall Jamieson

Yale University - Law School, College of Media & Communication, Texas Tech University, Cultural Cognition Project at Yale Law School, Howard Hughes Medical Institute - Tangled Bank Studios and University of Pennsylvania

Downloads 2,362

31.

Social Intuitionists Answer Six Questions About Morality

MORAL PSYCHOLOGY, W. Sinnott-Armstrong, ed., Oxford University Press, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 24 Apr 2007

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Jonathan Haidt and Fredrik Bjorklund

New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business and Lund University

Downloads 2,285

32.

Culture, Cognition, and Consent: Who Perceives What, and Why, in 'Acquaintance Rape' Cases

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Forthcoming, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 196, CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper

Number of pages: 75 Posted: 22 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Dan M. Kahan

Yale University - Law School

Downloads 2,245

33.

Implicit Bias in the Courtroom

UCLA Law Review, Vol. 59, No. 5, 2012, UCLA School of Law Research Paper

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 21 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2012

Accepted Paper Series

Jerry Kang, Mark W. Bennett, Devon W. Carbado, Pamela Casey, Nilanjana Dasgupta, David L. Faigman, Rachel D. Godsil, Anthony G. Greenwald, Justin D. Levinson and Jennifer Mnookin

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law, U.S. District Court (Northern District of Iowa), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law, National Center for State Courts, University of Massachusetts at Amherst - Psychology, University of California Hastings College of the Law, Seton Hall University - School of Law, University of Washington, University of Hawaii - William S. Richardson School of Law and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law

Downloads 2,227

34.

Whose Eyes are You Going to Believe? Scott v. Harris and the Perils of Cognitive Illiberalism

Harvard Law Review, Vol. 122, 2009, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 159, Harvard Law School Program on Risk Regulation Research Paper No. 08-18, 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 25 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Dan M. Kahan, David A. Hoffman and Donald Braman

Yale University - Law School, University of Pennsylvania Law School and George Washington University - Law School

Downloads 2,163

35.

The Ethics of Nudging

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 22 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 29 Nov 2014

Working Paper Series

Cass R. Sunstein

Harvard Law School

Downloads 2,158

36.

Natural Justice

American Journal of Jurisprudence, Vol. 51, pp. 65-105, 2006, Illinois Public Law Research Paper No. 08-28

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 27 Jan 2007

Accepted Paper Series

Lawrence B. Solum

Georgetown University Law Center

Downloads 2,114

37.

Consumer Contracts: Behavioral Economics vs. Neoclassical Economics

NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 07-17, Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 92, 2007-2008

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 25 Apr 2007

Accepted Paper Series

Oren Bar-Gill and Richard A. Epstein

Harvard Law School and New York University School of Law

Downloads 2,104

38.

Theorising Return Migration: The Conceptual Approach to Return Migrants Revisited

International Journal on Multicultural Societies (IJMS),Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 253 -279, 2004

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 27 Dec 2010

Accepted Paper Series

Jean-Pierre Cassarino

European University Institute - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS)

Downloads 2,067

39.

The Deep Structure of Law and Morality

Texas Law Review, Vol. 84, p. 877, 2006

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 20 Mar 2006 Last Revised: 21 May 2016

Accepted Paper Series

Robin Bradley Kar

University of Illinois College of Law

Downloads 2,053

40.

Geoengineering and Climate Change Polarization: Testing a Two-channel Model of Science Communication

Annals of American Academy of Political & Social Sci., 658, 193-222 (2015), doi: 10.1177/0002716214559002

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 09 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 12 Feb 2015

Working Paper Series

Dan M. Kahan, Hank C. Jenkins-Smith, Tor Tarantola, Carol L Silva and Donald Braman

Yale University - Law School, University of Oklahoma - Department of Political Science, University of Cambridge - Department of Psychology, University of Oklahoma - Main - Department of Political Science and George Washington University - Law School

Downloads 1,995

41.

Intellectual Property and the Incentive Fallacy

39 Florida State University Law Review 623

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 24 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 25 Jun 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Eric E. Johnson

University of North Dakota School of Law

Downloads 1,960

42.

Stumble, Predict, Nudge: How Behavioral Economics Informs Law and Policy

Columbia Law Review, Vol. 108, 2009, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 09-006

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 21 Jan 2009

Accepted Paper Series

Orly Lobel and On Amir

University of San Diego School of Law and University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Rady School of Management

Downloads 1,947

43.

Who Fears the HPV Vaccine, Who Doesn't, and Why? An Experimental Study of the Mechanisms of Cultural Cognition

Law and Human Behavior, Vol. 34, pp. 501-16, 2010, Cultural Cognition Project Working Paper No. 38, Harvard Law School Program on Risk Regulation Research Paper No. 08-19, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 163

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 17 Jul 2008 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Dan M. Kahan, Donald Braman, Geoffrey L. Cohen, Paul Slovic and John Gastil

Yale University - Law School, George Washington University - Law School, University of Colorado - Department of Psychology, Decision Research and Pennsylvania State University

Downloads 1,946

44.

Good Lawyers Should Be Good Psychologists: Insights for Interviewing and Counseling Clients

Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution, Vol. 23, p. 437, 2008, UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-24, U Illinois Law & Economics Research Paper No. LEC08-024

Number of pages: 113 Posted: 05 May 2008 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2008

Accepted Paper Series

Jean R. Sternlight and Jennifer K. Robbennolt

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law and University of Illinois College of Law

Downloads 1,915

45.

Law, Responsibility, and the Brain

PLoS Biology, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 693-700, April 2007

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 01 May 2007

Accepted Paper Series

Dean Mobbs, Hakwan C. Lau, Owen D. Jones and Christopher D. Frith

Columbia University, University College London - Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences and University College London - Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging

Downloads 1,903

46.

Does Unconscious Racial Bias Affect Trial Judges?

Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 84, No. 3, 2009, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 09-11

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 08 Apr 2009

Accepted Paper Series

Jeffrey J. Rachlinski, Sheri Lynn Johnson, Andrew J. Wistrich and Chris Guthrie

Cornell Law School, Cornell Law School, California Central District Court and Vanderbilt University - Law School

Downloads 1,895

47.

What Drives Views on Government Redistribution and Anti-Capitalism: Envy or a Desire for Social Dominance?

Northwestern Law & Economics Research Paper No. 06-10, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 06-29

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 20 Nov 2006 Last Revised: 16 Mar 2011

Working Paper Series

James Lindgren

Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law

Downloads 1,891

48.

Legal Reasoning

Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2012-09

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 07 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 14 Feb 2012

Accepted Paper Series

Barbara A. Spellman and Frederick Schauer

University of Virginia School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law

Downloads 1,832

49.

Workplace Bullying and American Employment Law: A Ten-Year Progress Report and Assessment

Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal, Vol. 32, no. 1, p. 251, 2010, Suffolk University Law School Research Paper No. 09-49

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 18 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2010

Accepted Paper Series

David C. Yamada

Suffolk University Law School

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,828

50.

The Politically Motivated Reasoning Paradigm

Emerging Trends in Social & Behavioral Sciences, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 13 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 12 Mar 2016

Accepted Paper Series

Dan M. Kahan

Yale University - Law School

Downloads 1,803

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