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
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads
40,193
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
Boston University - Questrom School of Business, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Rady School of Management and Duke University - Fuqua School of Business
Downloads
24,304
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
Yale University - Law School, Ohio State University - Psychology Department, Cornell University and Decision Research
Downloads
19,505
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
Yale University - Law School, University of Oklahoma and George Washington University - Law School
Downloads
13,292
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
Data & Society Research Institute and Data & Society Research Institute
Downloads
12,423
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
Loyola University of Chicago School of Law
Downloads
10,994
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
Harvard Law School
Downloads
10,244
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
Yale University - Law School
Downloads
7,666
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
Yale University - Law School
Downloads
6,844
10.
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
Yale University - Law School
Downloads
6,011
11.
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
Suffolk University Law School
Downloads
5,989
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
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Downloads
5,108
13.
Fixing the Communications Failure
Nature, Vol. 463, pp. 296-297, 2010
Number of pages: 4
Posted: 25 Jun 2010
Accepted Paper Series
Yale University - Law School
Downloads
4,393
14.
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
Loyola Law School Los Angeles
Downloads
4,353
15.
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
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
Downloads
4,344
16.
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
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
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3,726
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
Yale University - Law School, George Washington University - Law School, Pennsylvania State University, Decision Research and Decision Research
Downloads
3,567
18.
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
Arizona State University and Arizona State University (ASU) - Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
Downloads
3,526
19.
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
Harvard Law School and Santa Clara University - School of Law
Downloads
3,299
20.
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
Last Revised: 08 Aug 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Georgetown University Law Center
Downloads
3,283
21.
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
University of Colorado Law School
Downloads
3,201
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
Yale University - Law School
Downloads
3,088
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
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
Center for Integrative and Cognitive Neuroscience
Downloads
2,938
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
Vanderbilt University - Law School, Cornell Law School and California Central District Court
Downloads
2,847
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
Yale University - Law School
Downloads
2,836
26.
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
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
2,732
27.
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
Duke University School of Law
Downloads
2,670
28.
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
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
2,635
29.
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
Accepted Paper Series
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business and Lund University
Downloads
2,625
30.
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
University of Sheffield, University of Sheffield and London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Methodology
Downloads
2,622
31.
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
European University Institute - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS)
Downloads
2,617
32.
The Ethics of Nudging
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 22 Nov 2014
Last Revised: 29 Nov 2014
Working Paper Series
Harvard Law School
Downloads
2,569
33.
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
Fordham University School of Law
Downloads
2,463
34.
Database of State Tarasoff Laws
Number of pages: 17
Posted: 15 Feb 2010
Last Revised: 18 Feb 2018
Working Paper Series
University of Alabama at Birmingham - Department of Marketing, Industrial Distribution & Economics
Downloads
2,427
35.
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
Yale University - Law School
Downloads
2,404
36.
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
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, Rutgers Law School, University of Washington, University of Hawaii - William S. Richardson School of Law and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
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2,368
37.
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
Yale University - Law School
Downloads
2,341
38.
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
Yale University - Law School, University of Pennsylvania Law School and George Washington University - Law School
Downloads
2,246
39.
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
Harvard Law School and New York University School of Law
Downloads
2,199
40.
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
Georgetown University Law Center
Downloads
2,196
41.
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
University of Illinois College of Law
Downloads
2,133
42.
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
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law and University of Illinois College of Law
Downloads
2,114
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
Yale University - Law School, George Washington University - Law School, University of Colorado - Department of Psychology, Decision Research and Pennsylvania State University
Downloads
2,105
44.
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
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
2,083
45.
How People Update Beliefs about Climate Change: Good News and Bad News
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 02 Sep 2016
Working Paper Series
Harvard Law School, Affective Brain Lab, Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London, University College London - Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and University College London - Affective Brain Lab, Department of Experimental Psychology
Downloads
2,067
46.
The Innocent Defendant’s Dilemma: An Innovative Empirical Study of Plea Bargaining’s Innocence Problem
103 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 1, 2013
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 31 May 2012
Last Revised: 25 Jun 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Belmont University School of Law and Florida Institute of Technology
Downloads
2,061
47.
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
University of San Diego School of Law and University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Rady School of Management
Downloads
2,060
48.
'Frightening and High': The Supreme Court’s Crucial Mistake About Sex Crime Statistics
Published at 30 Constitutional Commentary 495 (2015)
Number of pages: 14
Posted: 09 Jun 2015
Last Revised: 18 Apr 2016
Accepted Paper Series
Arizona State University College of Law and Independent
Downloads
2,047
49.
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
University of North Dakota School of Law
Downloads
2,028
50.
False Confessions: Causes, Consequences and Implications
The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 2009, Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2009-11
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 16 Jan 2009
Last Revised: 18 Oct 2009
Accepted Paper Series
University of San Francisco - School of Law
Downloads
2,004
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