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The Psychology of Law

Annual Review of Psychology, 1982
INTRODUCTION 442 SUBSTANTIVE LAW 443 Competence 443 To consent to treatment ........ ........ ...... 444 To waive rights 445 The Criminal Sanction ... ....... 445 Deterrence ....... ..... ... ........ ... ......... .... ....... ..... ..... ..... 446 Rehabilitation ......... ... ....... ..... ....... ..... ..... .....
J Monahan, E F Loftus
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Psychology and Benford’s Law

2015
This chapter outlines recent research showing that people can approximate Benford's law when generating meaningful numbers in psychology. A common theme in recent research into reasoning and decision-making has been that people are influenced by statistical relationships in the environment.
Bruce D. Burns, Jonathan Krygier
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In defense of psychological laws

International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 1998
Abstract It is argued that psychological explanations involve psychological generalizations that exhibit the same features as laws of physics. On the basis of the “systematic theory of lawhood”, characteristic features of laws of nature are elaborated. Investigating some examples of explanations taken from cognitive psychology shows that these features
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Psychology and Law

Applied Psychology, 1994
Dans cet article, nous passerons en revue les liens historiques et actuels de la Psychologie et du Droit en Espagne. Nous notons que c'est un secteur specifique dans lequel ont ete effectuees recherche et pratique durant ces cinq dernieres annees. Il y a deux orientations de base: academique et professionnelle.
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Law and Psychology

Ethics, 1944
YOUR issue of January, 1943 (Vol. LIII, No. 2), contains, under the title "The Three Types of Law," an analysis of "the essence of law and justice" which is, in the light of modern psychological knowledge, so reactionary that I would beg leave to criticize it in the following short note. The author of this article, Dr. Georg Schwarzenberger, appears to
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Law and psychology.

The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 1929
Legal philosophers are beginning to think in creative terms. Social engineering may not be a far distant science. The processes by which the normal adult may be effectively influenced in his social behavior lie at its foundation and these are problems of psychology rather than of law. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)
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