Robert MacCoun

Stanford Law School

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Stanford, CA 94305-8610

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1.

Blind Analysis as a Correction for Confirmatory Bias in Physics and in Psychology

Lilienfeld, S. O., & Waldman, I. (Eds.), Psychological Science Under Scrutiny: Recent Challenges and Proposed Solutions. John Wiley and Sons, Forthcoming, Stanford Public Law Working Paper No. 2563337
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 12 Feb 2015
Robert MacCoun and Saul Perlmutter
Stanford Law School and University of California, Berkeley
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Confirmation bias; confirmatory bias; data analysis

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Drug Use and Drug Policy in a Prohibition Regime

UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 1118460
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 10 Apr 2008
Robert MacCoun and Karin D. Martin
Stanford Law School and University of California, Berkeley - The Richard & Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy
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Drugs, Crime, Addiction

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Intuitive Lawmaking: The Example of Child Support

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Intuitive Lawmaking: The Example of Child Support

2nd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 03 Jul 2007 Last Revised: 15 Jan 2008
Ira Mark Ellman, Sanford L. Braver and Robert MacCoun
Arizona State University College of Law, Arizona State University (ASU) - Department of Psychology and Stanford Law School
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child support, children, family law, heuristics, gender differences

Intuitive Lawmaking: The Example of Child Support

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2009
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 10 Nov 2008 Last Revised: 17 Nov 2008
Ira Mark Ellman, Sanford L. Braver and Robert MacCoun
Arizona State University College of Law, Arizona State University (ASU) - Department of Psychology and Stanford Law School
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child support, tradeoffs, incommensurability, coherent arbitrariness, lawmaking

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Symbolism and Incommensurability in Civil Sanctioning: Decision Makers as Goal Managers

Brooklyn Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 24 Apr 2003
Jennifer K. Robbennolt, John M. Darley and Robert MacCoun
University of Illinois College of Law, Princeton University and Stanford Law School
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legal decision making, civil justice, constraint satisfaction, factfinder goals

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Multiple Constraint Satisfaction in Judging

Illinois Public Law Research Paper No. 08-22, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 11333184
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 15 May 2008
Jennifer K. Robbennolt, Robert MacCoun and John M. Darley
University of Illinois College of Law, Stanford Law School and Princeton University
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Judging; Judicial decision making

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Do Citizens Know Whether Their State Has Decriminalized Marijuana? A Test of the Perceptual Assumption in Deterrence Theory

3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 17 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 17 Jul 2008
Robert MacCoun, Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, Jamie F. Chriqui, Katherine Mullan Harris and Peter H. Reuter
Stanford Law School, Health Economics, Finance and Organization, RAND Corporation, The MayaTech Corporation, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill and University of Maryland
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Drugs, Marijuana, Deterrence, Compliance

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The Burden of Social Proof: Shared Thresholds and Social Influence

UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper
Number of pages: 90 Posted: 02 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 14 Dec 2011
Robert MacCoun
Stanford Law School
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norms, social influence, jury deliberation, conformity

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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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evidence, juries

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Distinguishing Spurious and Real Peer Effects: Evidence from Artificial Societies, Small-Group Experiments, and Real Schoolyards

Review of Law & Economics, Forthcoming , UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 1118436
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 10 Apr 2008
Robert MacCoun, Philip J. Cook, Clara Muschkin and Jacob L. Vigdor
Stanford Law School, Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University - Center for Child and Family Policy and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Norms, social influence, peer effects

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What Can We Learn from the Dutch Cannabis Coffeeshop System?

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 13 Jun 2011
Robert MacCoun
Stanford Law School
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drug laws, legalization, deterrence, cannabis

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p-Hacking: A Strategic Analysis

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 12 Aug 2019
Robert MacCoun
Stanford Law School
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replicability, research integrity, statistical inference, motivated reasoning

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Computational Models of Social Influence and Collective Behavior

Forthcoming, R R. Vallacher, S. J. Read, & A. Nowak (Eds.), Computational models in social psychology. New York: Psychology Press.
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 13 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 23 Oct 2015
Robert MacCoun
Stanford Law School
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Influence; conformity; deliberation; modeling

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Public Intuitions about Fair Child Support Allocations: Converging Evidence for a 'Fair Shares' Rule

7th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 2110376
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 17 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 22 Nov 2013
Sanford L. Braver, Ira Mark Ellman and Robert MacCoun
Arizona State University (ASU) - Department of Psychology, Arizona State University College of Law and Stanford Law School
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Converting Sentiments to Dollars: Scaling and Incommensurability Problems in the Evaluation of Child Support Payments

3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 16 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 09 Sep 2008
Sanford L. Braver, Robert MacCoun and Ira Mark Ellman
Arizona State University (ASU) - Department of Psychology, Stanford Law School and Arizona State University College of Law
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Should Sixth Grade Be in Elementary or Middle School? An Analysis of Grade Configuration and Student Behavior

NBER Working Paper No. w12471
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 14 Sep 2006 Last Revised: 31 Jul 2010
Philip J. Cook, Robert MacCoun, Clara Muschkin and Jacob L. Vigdor
Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy, Stanford Law School, Duke University - Center for Child and Family Policy and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Balancing Evidence and Norms in Cultural Evolution

Stanford Public Law Working Paper No. 2516441
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 31 Oct 2014
Robert MacCoun
Stanford Law School
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Culture, imitation, conformity, norms, diffusion, threshold

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Abstract Principles and Concrete Cases in Intuitive Lawmaking

Law and Human Behavior, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 08 Feb 2011
Ira Mark Ellman, Sanford L. Braver and Robert MacCoun
Arizona State University College of Law, Arizona State University (ASU) - Department of Psychology and Stanford Law School
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child support, decisionmaking, judgments

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The Epistemic Contract: Fostering an Appropriate Level of Public Trust in Experts

Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, Forthcoming, Stanford Public Law Working Paper No. 2524686
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 16 Nov 2014
Robert MacCoun
Stanford Law School
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Expertise, Trust, Overconfidence, Calibration, Forecasting

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Moral Outrage and Opposition to Harm Reduction

UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 2035001
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 05 Apr 2012
Robert MacCoun
Stanford Law School
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vice, harm reduction, morality, disgust

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Intuitive Lawmaking II: The Relationship between Citizens' Endorsement of Principles and Their Resolution of Cases

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 01 May 2009 Last Revised: 26 May 2009
Ira Mark Ellman, Sanford L. Braver and Robert MacCoun
Arizona State University College of Law, Arizona State University (ASU) - Department of Psychology and Stanford Law School
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child support, tradeoffs, incommensurability, coherent arbitrariness, lawmaking

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Social Propensities

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 29 Jun 2017
Robert MacCoun and Sarah Polcz
Stanford Law School and Stanford Law School
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Game Theory, Distributive Justice, Interdependence, Discrete Choice

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Some Well-Aged Wines for the 'New Norm' Bottles , Implications of Social Psychology to Law and Economics

in THE LAW AND ECONOMICS OF IRRATIONAL BEHAVIOR 358 (Francesco Parisi and Vernon Smith eds., Stanford University Press, 2005).
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 13 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 25 Dec 2015
Yuval Feldman and Robert MacCoun
Bar-Ilan University - Faculty of Law and Stanford Law School
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Social norms, social psychology , normative influence, normmanagement implications.

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The Puzzling Unidimensionality of the DSM Substance Use Diagnoses

UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 2280538
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 19 Jun 2013
Robert MacCoun
Stanford Law School
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DSM, substance use, dependence, diagnosis, psychometrics

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How Medical Marijuana Smoothed the Transition to Marijuana Legalization in the United States

Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 13, pp. 181-202, 2017
Posted: 26 Oct 2017
Beau Kilmer and Robert MacCoun
RAND Corporation and Stanford Law School

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Assessing Drug Prohibition and its Alternatives: A Guide for Agnostics

Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 7, pp. 61-78, 2011
Posted: 10 Jan 2012
Robert MacCoun and Peter H. Reuter
Stanford Law School and University of Maryland

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Cheap Talk and Credibility: The Consequences of Confidence and Accuracy on Advisor Credibility and Persuasiveness

Posted: 12 Jun 2011
Sunita Sah, Don A. Moore and Robert MacCoun
Duke University, Fuqua School of Business, University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business and Stanford Law School

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Voice, Control, and Belonging: The Double-Edged Sword of Procedural Fairness

Annual Review of Law and Social Science (2005), Vol. 1, pp. 171-201, 2005
Posted: 18 Oct 2010
Robert MacCoun
Stanford Law School

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Cheap Talk and Credibility: The Consequences of Confidence and Accuracy on Advisor Credibility and Persuasiveness

Sah, S., Moore, D., & MacCoun, R. (2013). Cheap Talk and Credibility: The Consequences of Confidence and Accuracy on Advisor Credibility and Persuasiveness. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 121(2), 246-255. doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2013.02.001.
Posted: 25 May 2010 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2013
Sunita Sah, Don A. Moore and Robert MacCoun
Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business and Stanford Law School

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judgment, confidence, advisors, advice, influence, accuracy, credibility, calibration