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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

Barbara A. Spellman and Frederick Schauer

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

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Law and Social Cognition

Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2012-10

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 07 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 14 Feb 2012

Barbara A. Spellman and Frederick Schauer

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

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Embodied Rationality

Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2009-17

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 14 May 2009 Last Revised: 28 Mar 2010

Barbara A. Spellman and Simone Schnall

University of Virginia School of Law and University of Cambridge

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Is Expert Evidence Really Different?

Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2013-15

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 02 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 13 May 2013

Frederick Schauer and Barbara A. Spellman

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

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Calibrating Legal Judgments

The Journal of Legal Analysis, forthcoming, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2016-58, Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2016-19

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 01 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 19 Oct 2016

Frederick Schauer and Barbara A. Spellman

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

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Sentencing Decisions: Matching the Decisionmaker to the Decision Nature

Columbia Law Review, Vol. 105, pp. 1124-1161, May 2005

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 31 Mar 2005

Paul H. Robinson and Barbara A. Spellman

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

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On the Supposed Expertise of Judges in Evaluating Evidence

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 157, 2007

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 04 Apr 2007

Barbara A. Spellman

University of Virginia School of Law

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Judges, Expertise, and Analogy

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF JUDICIAL DECISION-MAKING, D. Klein & G. Mitchell, eds., Forthcoming, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2009-20

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 15 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 04 Oct 2009

Barbara A. Spellman

University of Virginia School of Law

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Calibration Trumps Confidence as a Basis for Witness Credibility

Psychological Science, Vol. 18, No. 1, p. 46, 2007

Number of pages: 5 Posted: 09 Apr 2007

Elizabeth R. Tenney, Robert MacCoun, Barbara A. Spellman and Reid Hastie

University of Virginia - Psychology, Stanford Law School, University of Virginia School of Law and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

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Counterfactuals, Control, and Causation: Why Knowledgeable People Get Blamed More

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 08 Jul 2014

Elizabeth A Gilbert, Elizabeth R. Tenney, Christopher Holland and Barbara A. Spellman

University of Virginia, University of Virginia - Psychology, University of Virginia - McIntire School of Commerce and University of Virginia School of Law

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When Knowledge Matters to Causation

5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 17 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 24 Oct 2010

Barbara A. Spellman and Christopher Holland

University of Virginia School of Law and University of Virginia - McIntire School of Commerce

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Immorality or Abnormality: What's to Blame for Increasing Blame?

Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2014-31

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 05 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 29 Apr 2014

Elizabeth A Gilbert and Barbara A. Spellman

University of Virginia and University of Virginia School of Law

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Beyond Instructions to Disregard: When Objections Backfire and Interruptions Distract

Saint Louis U. Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2014-11

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 05 May 2014 Last Revised: 23 May 2014

Molly J. Walker Wilson, Barbara A. Spellman and Rachel M. York

Saint Louis University - School of Law, University of Virginia School of Law and George Mason University - Department of Psychology

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Blame, Cause and Counterfactuals: The Inextricable Link

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 08 Jul 2014

Barbara A. Spellman and Elizabeth A Gilbert

University of Virginia School of Law and University of Virginia

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University of Virginia School of Law

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Legal Reasoning

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Law and Social Cognition

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Embodied Rationality

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Is Expert Evidence Really Different?

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Calibrating Legal Judgments

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Sentencing Decisions: Matching the Decisionmaker to the Decision Nature

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On the Supposed Expertise of Judges in Evaluating Evidence

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Judges, Expertise, and Analogy

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Calibration Trumps Confidence as a Basis for Witness Credibility

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Counterfactuals, Control, and Causation: Why Knowledgeable People Get Blamed More

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When Knowledge Matters to Causation

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Immorality or Abnormality: What's to Blame for Increasing Blame?

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Beyond Instructions to Disregard: When Objections Backfire and Interruptions Distract

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Blame, Cause and Counterfactuals: The Inextricable Link

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