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Gregory Mitchell

University of Virginia School of Law

Joseph Weintraub–Bank of America Distinguished Professor of Law

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Charlottesville, VA 22903

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1.

Libertarian Paternalism is an Oxymoron

FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 136; FSU College of Law, Law and Economics Paper No. 05-02
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 05 Nov 2004
Gregory Mitchell
University of Virginia School of Law
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Behavioral Law and Economics, Libertarianism, Paternalism

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Why Law and Economics' Perfect Rationality Should Not Be Traded for Behavioral Law and Economics' Equal Incompetence

FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 49
Number of pages: 159 Posted: 11 Apr 2002
Gregory Mitchell
University of Virginia School of Law
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Government Regulation of Irrationality: Moral and Cognitive Hazards

Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 90, p. 1620, 2006, FSU College of Law, Law and Economics Research Paper No. 05-16, FSU College of Law, Public Law Reserch Paper No. 160
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 23 Jul 2005 Last Revised: 29 Jan 2010
Jonathan Klick and Gregory Mitchell
University of Pennsylvania Law School and University of Virginia School of Law
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Paternalism, Insurance, Behavioral Law and Economics, Psychology, Learning, Mistake

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Taking Behavioralism Too Seriously? The Unwarranted Pessimism of the New Behavioral Analysis of Law

FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 48
Number of pages: 134 Posted: 11 Apr 2002
Gregory Mitchell
University of Virginia School of Law
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Case Studies, Counterfactuals, and Causal Explanations

FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 84
Number of pages: 100 Posted: 27 Aug 2003
Gregory Mitchell
University of Virginia School of Law
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case study method, counterfactual reasoning, thought experiment, empirical legal research

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Tendencies Versus Boundaries: Levels of Generality in Behavioral Law and Economics

FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 83
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 30 Jul 2003
Gregory Mitchell
University of Virginia School of Law
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behavioral law and economics, behavioral economics, rationality

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Contextual Evidence of Gender Discrimination: The Ascendance of 'Social Frameworks'

Virginia Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 08 May 2008 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2014
John Monahan, Laurens Walker and Gregory Mitchell
University of Virginia School of Law, University of Virginia School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law
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social framework, employment discrimination, expert, Daubert, stereotype, bias

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Empirical Legal Scholarship as Scientific Dialogue

FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 113
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 09 Apr 2004
Gregory Mitchell
University of Virginia School of Law
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empirical legal research, meta-analysis, replication, peer review, law and social science

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Mapping Evidence Law

FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 75
Number of pages: 87 Posted: 20 Mar 2003
Gregory Mitchell
University of Virginia School of Law
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law and economics, behavioral law and economics, judgment and decision-making, cognitive heuristics, rationality, evidence law, jury behavior, judicial behavior

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The Limits of Social Framework Evidence

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The Limits of Social Framework Evidence

Law, Probability & Risk, Forthcoming, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2009-08
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 19 Jun 2009 Last Revised: 16 Jun 2010
John Monahan, Laurens Walker and Gregory Mitchell
University of Virginia School of Law, University of Virginia School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law
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expert witness, expert evidence, social framework evidence, scientific evidence, class actions

The Limits of Social Framework Evidence

Law, Probability & Risk, Vol. 8, Issue 4, pp. 307-321, 2009
Posted: 28 Dec 2009
John Monahan, Laurens Walker and Gregory Mitchell
University of Virginia School of Law, University of Virginia School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law

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social frameworks, employment discrimination, gender discrimination, expert witnesses, scientific evidence, Dukes v. Wal-Mart

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An Empirical Inquiry into the Relation of Corrective Justice to Distributive Justice

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Vol. 3, 2006
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 03 Jul 2006
Gregory Mitchell and Philip E. Tetlock
University of Virginia School of Law and University of California, Berkeley - Organizational Behavior & Industrial Relations Group
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Corrective Justice, Distributive Justice

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Revisiting Truth or Triviality: The External Validity of Research in the Psychological Laboratory

Perspectives on Psychological Science, Vol. 7, pp. 109-118, 2012, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2012-22
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 13 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 31 Jan 2015
Gregory Mitchell
University of Virginia School of Law
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external validity, generalizability, effect size, meta-analysis

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Antidiscrimination Law and the Perils of Mindreading

Ohio State Law Journal, Vol. 67, pp. 1023-1121, 2006
Number of pages: 100 Posted: 01 Feb 2007
Gregory Mitchell and Philip E. Tetlock
University of Virginia School of Law and University of California, Berkeley - Organizational Behavior & Industrial Relations Group
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implicit bias, implicit prejudice, unconscious bias, law and social science, law and psychology

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Using the IAT to Predict Ethnic and Racial Discrimination: Small Effect Sizes of Unknown Societal Significance

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Using the IAT to Predict Ethnic and Racial Discrimination: Small Effect Sizes of Unknown Societal Significance

Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 11
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 13 Feb 2015
Frederick L. Oswald, Gregory Mitchell, Hart Blanton, James Jaccard and Philip Tetlock
Rice University, University of Virginia School of Law, Texas A&M University - Department of Psychology, Florida International University (FIU) - Department of Psychology and University of Pennsylvania
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Using the IAT to Predict Ethnic and Racial Discrimination: Small Effect Sizes of Unknown Societal Significance

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 03 Feb 2015
Frederick L. Oswald, Gregory Mitchell, Hart Blanton, James Jaccard and Philip Tetlock
Rice University, University of Virginia School of Law, Texas A&M University - Department of Psychology, Florida International University (FIU) - Department of Psychology and University of Pennsylvania
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implicit bias, Implicit Association Test, prejudice, discrimination

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Beyond Context: Social Facts as Case-Specific Evidence

Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2010-14, Emory Law Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 05 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 28 Oct 2010
Gregory Mitchell, Laurens Walker and John Monahan
University of Virginia School of Law, University of Virginia School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law
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law and social science, expert evidence, social facts, social frameworks

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Law and Proximity

Illinois Law Review, 2008, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 257
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 26 Apr 2007
Adam J. Hirsch and Gregory Mitchell
University of San Diego and University of Virginia School of Law
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Experiments Behind the Veil: A Hypothetical Societies Approach to the Study of Social Justice

FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 50
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 11 Apr 2002
Gregory Mitchell, Philip E. Tetlock, Daniel G. Newman and Jennifer S. Lerner
University of Virginia School of Law, University of California, Berkeley - Organizational Behavior & Industrial Relations Group, Say I Can, Inc. and Carnegie Mellon University
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Social Justice, Distributive Justice, Impartial Reasoning Devices, Meritocracy, Efficiency, Workfare

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The ASA’s Missed Opportunity to Promote Sound Science in Court

Sociological Methods & Research, Forthcoming, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2011-18
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 21 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 02 Feb 2015
Gregory Mitchell, John Monahan and Laurens Walker
University of Virginia School of Law, University of Virginia School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law
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experts, class certification, employment discrimination, social science and law

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Reassessing the Predictive Validity of the IAT II: Reanalysis of Heider & Skowronski (2007)

North American Journal of Psychology, Vol. 12, No. 1, 99-106
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 03 Feb 2015
Hart Blanton and Gregory Mitchell
Texas A&M University - Department of Psychology and University of Virginia School of Law
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implicit bias, discrimination, Implicit Association Test, replication

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Experimental Political Philosophy: Justice Judgments in the Hypothetical Society Paradigm

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 03 Jul 2006
Gregory Mitchell and Philip E. Tetlock
University of Virginia School of Law and University of California, Berkeley - Organizational Behavior & Industrial Relations Group
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thought experiments, distributive justice, corrective justice

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Second Thoughts

McGeorge Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 28 Oct 2008
Gregory Mitchell
University of Virginia School of Law
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Implicit Bias, Metacognition, Rationality, Behavioral Law and Economics, Antidiscrimination Law

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Toward a Meaningful Metric of Implicit Prejudice

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Toward a Meaningful Metric of Implicit Prejudice

Journal of Applied Psychology. Advance online publication, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 12
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 13 Feb 2015
Hart Blanton, James Jaccard, Erin Strauts, Gregory Mitchell and Philip Tetlock
Texas A&M University - Department of Psychology, Florida International University (FIU) - Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut - Department of Psychology, University of Virginia School of Law and University of Pennsylvania
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arbitrary metrics, Implicit Association Test, implicit attitudes, prejudice, discrimination

Toward a Meaningful Metric of Implicit Prejudice

Journal of Applied Psychology (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 03 Feb 2015
Hart Blanton, James Jaccard, Erin Strauts, Gregory Mitchell and Philip Tetlock
Texas A&M University - Department of Psychology, Florida International University (FIU) - Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut - Department of Psychology, University of Virginia School of Law and University of Pennsylvania
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arbitrary metrics, Implicit Association Test, implicit attitudes, prejudice, discrimination

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Facts Do Matter: A Reply to Bagenstos

Hofstra Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 08 Jan 2009
Gregory Mitchell and Philip E. Tetlock
University of Virginia School of Law and University of California, Berkeley - Organizational Behavior & Industrial Relations Group
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implicit bias, discrimination, antidiscrimination law

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Discovery and the Evidentiary Foundations of Implicit Bias

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Discovery and the Evidentiary Foundations of Implicit Bias

Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 10
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 13 Feb 2015
Allan King, Gregory Mitchell, Richard Black, Catherine Conway and Julie Totten
Littler Mendelson, University of Virginia School of Law, Littler Mendelson, Gibson Dunn and Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP
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Discovery and the Evidentiary Foundations of Implicit Bias

Employee Relations Law Journal, Vol. 40, No. 3, 4-33
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 03 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 28 Aug 2015
Allan King, Gregory Mitchell, Richard Black, Catherine Conway and Julie Totten
Littler Mendelson, University of Virginia School of Law, Littler Mendelson, Gibson Dunn and Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP
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implicit bias, Implicit Association Test, discovery, replication, expert evidence

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Good Causes and Bad Science

Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc, Forthcoming, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2010-38
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 21 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 01 Nov 2010
Gregory Mitchell
University of Virginia School of Law
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experts, expert evidence, social framework, Daubert, class actions, Dukes

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Case-Specific Sociological Inference: Meta-Norms for Expert Opinions

Sociological Methods and Research, Forthcoming, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2011-22
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 02 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 05 Sep 2011
Gregory Mitchell, John Monahan and Laurens Walker
University of Virginia School of Law, University of Virginia School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law
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Sociology, meta-norms, social science, Wal-Mart

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Liberal and Conservative Approaches to Justice: Conflicting Psychological Portraits

Mellers & Baron (Eds.), Psychological Perspectives on Justice: Theory and Applications, 2008
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 15 Aug 2014
Philip Tetlock and Gregory Mitchell
University of Pennsylvania and University of Virginia School of Law
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justice, ideology

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Strong Claims and Weak Evidence: Reassessing the Predictive Validity of the IAT

Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol. 94, No. 3, 567-582, 2009, DOI: 10.1037/a0014665, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 15-4
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 06 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 26 Feb 2015
Hart Blanton, James Jaccard, Jonathan Klick, Barb Mellers, Gregory Mitchell and Philip Tetlock
Texas A&M University - Department of Psychology, Florida International University (FIU) - Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania Law School, University of Pennsylvania, Psychology, University of Virginia School of Law and University of Pennsylvania
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Implicit Association Test, predictive validity, discrimination, implicit bias

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Cognitive Style and Judging

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF JUDICIAL DECISION MAKING (pp. 279-284) (David Klein & Gregory Mitchell eds., 2010)
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 04 Feb 2015
Gregory Mitchell and Philip Tetlock
University of Virginia School of Law and University of Pennsylvania
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cognitive style, judicial decision-making

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Evaluating Judges

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF JUDICIAL DECISION MAKING (pp. 221-248) (David Klein & Gregory Mitchell eds., 2010)
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 05 Feb 2015
Gregory Mitchell
University of Virginia School of Law
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Judicial Behavior, Judicial Decision-Making, Empirical Studies of Judging

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Predicting Ethnic and Racial Discrimination: A Meta-Analysis of IAT Criterion Studies

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 105, No. 2, 171-192, DOI: 10.1037/a0032734
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 03 Feb 2015
Frederick L. Oswald, Gregory Mitchell, Hart Blanton, James Jaccard and Philip Tetlock
Rice University, University of Virginia School of Law, Texas A&M University - Department of Psychology, Florida International University (FIU) - Department of Psychology and University of Pennsylvania
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Implicit Association Test, explicit measures of bias, predictive validity, discrimination, prejudice

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Calibrating Prejudice in Milliseconds

Social Psychology Quarterly, 71, 12-16, 2008
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 14 Aug 2014
Philip Tetlock and Gregory Mitchell
University of Pennsylvania and University of Virginia School of Law
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implicit bias, discrimination

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How Jurors Evaluate Fingerprint Evidence: The Relative Importance of Match Language, Method Information, and Error Acknowledgment

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Vol. 10, Issue 3, pp. 484-511, 2013
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 20 Aug 2013
Brandon L. Garrett and Gregory Mitchell
Duke University School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law
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An Implicit Bias Primer

Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law, Vol. 25, No. 1, 2018, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2018-20
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 29 Mar 2018
Gregory Mitchell
University of Virginia School of Law
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implicit bias, discrimination, social science and law

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Libertarian Nudges

Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2017-65
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 15 Nov 2017 Last Revised: 12 Mar 2018
Gregory Mitchell
University of Virginia School of Law
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The Proficiency of Experts

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 66, 2018, Forthcoming, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2017-55
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 29 Sep 2017 Last Revised: 11 Jul 2018
Brandon L. Garrett and Gregory Mitchell
Duke University School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law
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proficiency, expert, evidence, forensics, Daubert, qualification

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Alternative Behavioral Law and Economics

The Oxford Handbook of Behavioral Economics and the Law (E. Zamir & D. Teichman, editors, 2014), Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2017-14
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 25 May 2017 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2017
Gregory Mitchell
University of Virginia School of Law
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behavioral law and economics, heuristics and biases, judgment and decision-making, rational choice

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Popularity as a Poor Proxy for Utility: The Case of Implicit Prejudice

Psychological Science Under Scrutiny: Recent Challenges and Proposed Solutions (S.O. Lilienfeld & I.D. Waldman, editors, 2017), Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2017-32
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 25 May 2017 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2017
Gregory Mitchell and Philip Tetlock
University of Virginia School of Law and University of Pennsylvania
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implicit bias, Implicit Association Test, discrimination

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Jumping to Conclusions: Advocacy and Application of Psychological Research

The Politics of Social Psychology (J.T. Crawford & L. Jussim editors, 2018), Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2017-31
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 25 May 2017 Last Revised: 07 Jun 2017
Gregory Mitchell
University of Virginia School of Law
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external validity, applied social psychology

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The Price of Abstraction

Research Handbook on Behavioral Law and Economics (K. Zeiler & J. Teitelbaum, editors, Forthcoming), Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2017-12
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 25 May 2017 Last Revised: 09 Jun 2017
Gregory Mitchell
University of Virginia School of Law
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behavioral law and economics, law and economics, judgment and decision-making, rational choice

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Forensics and Fallibility: Comparing the Views of Lawyers and Judges

West Virginia Law Review, Vol. 119, 2016, Forthcoming , Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2016-63
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 07 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 11 Jul 2018
Brandon L. Garrett and Gregory Mitchell
Duke University School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law
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forensics, plea bargaining, jurors, CSI

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Balancing Fairness and Efficiency: The Impact of Identity-Blind and Identity-Conscious Accountability on Applicant Screening

PLOS ONE | DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0145208, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 3, Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 1
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 05 Jan 2016 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2016
William Self, Gregory Mitchell, Barb Mellers, Philip Tetlock and John Angus Hildreth
University of Missouri at Kansas City, University of Virginia School of Law, University of Pennsylvania, Psychology, University of Pennsylvania and University of California, Berkeley
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discrimination, accountability, gender bias, racial bias

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Implicit Attitude Measures

Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2015 , Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 4
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 24 Nov 2015 Last Revised: 23 Dec 2015
Gregory Mitchell and Philip Tetlock
University of Virginia School of Law and University of Pennsylvania
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implicit attitudes, unobtrusive measures, implicit measures, explicit measures

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Cautious Optimism in Law Students

FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 55
Posted: 08 Aug 2002
Gregory Mitchell
University of Virginia School of Law

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