Chris Guthrie

Vanderbilt University - Law School

John Wade-Kent Syverud Professor of Law and Dean

131 21st Avenue South

Nashville, TN 37203-1181

United States

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1.

Inside the Judicial Mind

Number of pages: 91 Posted: 23 Feb 2001
Chris Guthrie, Jeffrey J. Rachlinski and Andrew J. Wistrich
Vanderbilt University - Law School, Cornell Law School and California Central District Court
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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
Chris Guthrie, Jeffrey J. Rachlinski and Andrew J. Wistrich
Vanderbilt University - Law School, Cornell Law School and California Central District Court
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behavioral law and economics, judges, heuristics and biases, dispute resolution, psychology, realism, formalism

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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
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 2,433 (12,886)
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Judges, race

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Anchoring, Information, Expertise, and Negotiation: New Insights from Meta-Analysis

Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution, 2006, Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 06-12
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 04 May 2006
Chris Guthrie and Dan Orr
Vanderbilt University - Law School and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, L.L.P.
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anchoring, heuristics and biases, negotiation, bargaining, settlement

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Heuristics and Biases at the Bargaining Table

Marquette Law Review, Vol. 87, p. 795-808, 2004, Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 04-11, UCLA School of Law, Law-Econ Research Paper No. 04/5
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 17 Mar 2004
Russell B. Korobkin and Chris Guthrie
UCLA School of Law and Vanderbilt University - Law School
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Heuristics, Negotiation

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Prospect Theory, Risk Preference & the Law

Number of pages: 75 Posted: 31 Oct 2002
Chris Guthrie
Vanderbilt University - Law School
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prospect theory, risk, decision making

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Inside the Arbitrator's Mind

Emory Law Journal, Vol. 66, 2017, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16-46, American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2017-08
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 13 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 13 May 2017
Susan Franck, Anne van Aaken, Anne van Aaken, James Freda, Chris Guthrie and Jeffrey J. Rachlinski
American University - Washington College of Law, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective GoodsUniversity of Hamburg, Law School, United Nations, Vanderbilt University - Law School and Cornell Law School
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Arbitration, Dispute Resolution, Arbitrators, Investment Treaty Arbitration, International Economic Law, Investor-State Arbitration, ISDS, Law and Psychology, Empirical Legal Studies, Dispute Systems Design, International Courts and Tribunals, Cognitive Illusions, Biases and Heuristics

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Law, Information, and Choice: Capitalizing on Heuristic Habits of Thought

HEURISTICS AND THE LAW, Engle and Gigerenzer, eds., MIT Press, 2006, Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 06-11
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 04 May 2006
Chris Guthrie
Vanderbilt University - Law School
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mandatory disclosure, informed consent, judgment and decision making, heuristics and biases

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Can Judges Ignore Inadmissible Information? The Difficulty of Deliberately Disregarding

Number of pages: 96 Posted: 04 Apr 2005
Jeffrey J. Rachlinski, Andrew J. Wistrich and Chris Guthrie
Cornell Law School, California Central District Court and Vanderbilt University - Law School
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The Impact of the Impact Bias on Negotiation

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 08 Apr 2004
Chris Guthrie and David F. Sally
Vanderbilt University - Law School and Independent
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Negotiation, bargaining, affective forecasting, hedonics

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Psychology, Economics, and Settlement: A New Look at the Role of the Lawyer

Texas Law Review, Vol. 76, 1997, UCLA School of Law Research Paper
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 18 Jul 1997
Russell B. Korobkin and Chris Guthrie
UCLA School of Law and Vanderbilt University - Law School
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The Hidden 'Judiciary': An Empirical Examination of Executive Branch Justice

Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 09-12, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 09-09, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-010
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 08 Apr 2009
Chris Guthrie, Jeffrey J. Rachlinski and Andrew J. Wistrich
Vanderbilt University - Law School, Cornell Law School and California Central District Court
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Judges, ALI, Decision-making, Intuition, Deliberation, Heuristic and biases

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Panacea or Pandora's Box? The Costs of Options in Negotiation

Number of pages: 69 Posted: 05 Dec 2002
Chris Guthrie
Vanderbilt University - Law School
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negotiation, decision making, context dependence, regret, experimental, agency

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Probable Cause, Probability, and Hindsight

Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 11-25, Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 11-38
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 03 Jul 2011
Jeffrey J. Rachlinski, Andrew J. Wistrich and Chris Guthrie
Cornell Law School, California Central District Court and Vanderbilt University - Law School
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Toward A Mission-Based Ranking?

Vanderbilt Law Research Paper No. 20-13, 60 Jurimetrics Journal 75-81 (2019)
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 24 Feb 2020
Chris Guthrie
Vanderbilt University - Law School
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rankings, citations, legal education

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Carhart, Constitutional Rights, and the Psychology of Regret

Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 07-33
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 20 Nov 2007
Chris Guthrie
Vanderbilt University - Law School
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abortion, privacy, regret, psychology, impact bias, behavioral law and economics

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Insurers, Illusions of Judgment & Litigation

Vanderbilt Law Review, Forthcoming, Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 06-28
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 21 Dec 2006
Chris Guthrie and Jeffrey J. Rachlinski
Vanderbilt University - Law School and Cornell Law School
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litigation, settlement, heuristics and biases, experts, insurance, anchoring, framing, self-serving bias

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The Futility of Appeal: Disciplinary Insights into the 'Affirmance Effect' on the United States Court of Appeals

Florida State University Law Review, Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 357-185, Winter 2005, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 05-21, Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 05-17
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 14 Jun 2005
Chris Guthrie and Tracey E. George
Vanderbilt University - Law School and Vanderbilt University - Law School
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heuristics, biases, federal courts, attitudinal model, strategic model, judicial behavior

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Contrition in the Courtroom: Do Apologies Affect Adjudication?

Cornell Law Review, Vol. 98, No. 1189, 2013, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 13-90
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 18 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 18 Oct 2013
Jeffrey J. Rachlinski, Chris Guthrie and Andrew J. Wistrich
Cornell Law School, Vanderbilt University - Law School and California Central District Court
Downloads 190 (342,762)
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Judges

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Altering Attention in Adjudication

UCLA Law Review, Vol. 60, No. 1586, 2013, Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 13-32, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 13-45
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 29 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2013
Jeffrey J. Rachlinski, Andrew J. Wistrich and Chris Guthrie
Cornell Law School, California Central District Court and Vanderbilt University - Law School
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Remaking the United States Supreme Court in the Courts' of Appeals Image

Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 09-11, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 09-10
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 08 Apr 2009
Chris Guthrie and Tracey E. George
Vanderbilt University - Law School and Vanderbilt University - Law School
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Justices, Supreme Court, Decision-making, Panels, Groups

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Damages: Using a Case Study to Teach Law, Lawyering, and Dispute Resolution

Journal of Dispute Resolution, Vol. 2004, No. 1, 2004
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 02 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 22 Sep 2015
Melody Daily, Chris Guthrie and Leonard L. Riskin
University of Missouri School of Law, Vanderbilt University - Law School and University of Florida Levin College of Law
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legal education, dispute resolution, mediation

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Can Judges Make Reliable Numeric Judgments? Distorted Damages and Skewed Sentences

Indiana Law Journal, Vol. 90, No. 2, 2015
Posted: 15 Mar 2017
Jeffrey J. Rachlinski, Andrew J. Wistrich and Chris Guthrie
Cornell Law School, California Central District Court and Vanderbilt University - Law School

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