Title: Judicial decision making : is psychology relevant? /
Authors: Wrightsman, Lawrence S.
Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Psychology legislation & jurisprudence; Jurisprudence; Decision Making; Judges United States; Judicial process United States; Law Psychological aspects; United States; United States
Contents: How do judges decide? -- Opinion formation and expression -- Attempts to influence judges -- The role of the Chief Justice -- Responses to influence -- History of the psychology-law relationship -- The American Psychological Association's organized amicus activity -- The APA's amicus attemps to influence the Supreme Court -- Unsuccessful attempts to influence the Court -- The future of the psychology-law relationship.