Browsing Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Works by Subject "law and psychology"

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    • Economics, Behavioral Biology, and Law 
      Jones, Owen D.; O'Connor, Erin O'Hara; Stake, Jeffrey Evans (Supreme Court Economic Review, 2011)
      The article first compares economics and behavioral biology, examining the assumptions, core concepts, methodological tenets, and emphases of the two fields. Building on this, the article then compares the applied ...
    • Empirically Investigating Judicial Emotion 
      Maroney, Terry (Onati Socio-Legal Series, 2019)
      The empirical study of judicial emotion has enormous but largely untapped potential to illuminate a previously underexplored aspect of judging, its processes, outputs, and impacts. After defining judicial emotion, this ...
    • Introducing an Interdisciplinary Frontier to Judging, Emotion and Emotion Work 
      Maroney, Terry; Blix, Stina Bergman; Mack, Kathy; Anleu, Sharyn Roach (Onati Socio-Legal Series, 2019)
      This special issue of Oñati Socio-Legal Series, titled Judging, Emotion and Emotion Work, is the result of presentations and discussions during an interdisciplinary workshop at the International Institute for the Sociology ...
    • The Neural Correlates of Third-Party Punishment 
      Jones, Owen D.; Buckholtz, Joshua; Asplund, Christopher L.; Dux, Paul E.; Zald, David H.; Gore, John C.; Marois, Rene (Neuron, 2008-12)
      This article reports the discovery, from the first full-scale law and neuroscience experiment, of the brain activity underlying punishment decisions. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure brain ...
    • Sorting Guilty Minds 
      Jones, Owen D.; Shen, Francis X.; Hoffman, Morris B.; Greene, Joshua D.; Marois, Rene (New York University Law Review, 2011)
      Because punishable guilt requires that bad thoughts accompany bad acts, the Model Penal Code (MPC) typically requires that jurors infer the past mental state of a criminal defendant. More specifically, jurors must sort ...