Author Page for Robert MacCoun

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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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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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

Center for the Study of Law and Society, Berkeley Law, University of California, Berkeley, Arizona State University (ASU) - Department of Psychology and Stanford Law School

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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

Center for the Study of Law and Society, Berkeley Law, University of California, Berkeley, Arizona State University (ASU) - Department of Psychology and Stanford Law School

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

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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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, University of Southern California - Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, The MayaTech Corporation, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill and University of Maryland

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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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p-Hacking: A Strategic Analysis

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 12 Aug 2019

Robert MacCoun

Stanford Law School

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Standards of Proof: Theories and Evidence

Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 569

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 09 Feb 2022 Last Revised: 13 Apr 2022

Robert MacCoun

Stanford Law School

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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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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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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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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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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, Center for the Study of Law and Society, Berkeley Law, University of California, Berkeley 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 Center for the Study of Law and Society, Berkeley Law, University of California, Berkeley

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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 2022

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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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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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

Center for the Study of Law and Society, Berkeley Law, University of California, Berkeley, Arizona State University (ASU) - Department of Psychology and Stanford Law School

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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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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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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

Center for the Study of Law and Society, Berkeley Law, University of California, Berkeley, Arizona State University (ASU) - Department of Psychology and Stanford Law School

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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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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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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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Stanford Law School

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