Research Catalog

Title

Heuristics and the law / edited by G. Gigerenzer and C. Engel.

Publication

Cambridge, MA : MIT Press in cooperation with Dahlem University Press, c2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gigerenzer, Gerd
• Engel, Christoph, 1956-
• Dahlem Workshop on Heuristics and the Law (2004 : Berlin, Germany)

Description

xiv, 485 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Report of the 94th Dahlem Workshop on Heuristics and the Law, Berlin, June 6-11, 2004"--Page ii.

Series Statement

Dahlem workshop reports

Uniform Title

Dahlem workshop reports

Subject

• Law > Methodology
• Heuristic

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• "Report of the 94th Dahlem Workshop on Heuristics and the Law, Berlin, June 6-11, 2004"--P. ii.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Law and heuristics : an interdisciplinary venture / Christoph Engel and Gerd Gigerenzer -- Heuristics / Gerd Gigerenzer -- The problems with heuristics for law / Russell Korobkin -- Social dilemmas revisited from a heuristics perspective / Christoph Engel -- Heuristics inside the firm : perspectives from behavioral law and economics / Donald C. Langevoort -- Group report : are heuristics a problem or a solution? / Douglas A. Kysar, rapporteur ; Peter Ayton [and others] -- The optimal complexity of legal rules / Richard A. Epstein -- Bottom-up versus top-down lawmaking / Jeffrey J. Rachlinski -- Evolutionary psychology, moral heuristics, and the law / Leda Cosmides and John Tooby -- The evolutionary and cultural origins of heuristics that influence lawmaking / Wolfgang Fikentscher -- Group report : what is the role of heuristics in making law? / Jonathan Haidt, rapporteur ; Susanne Baer [and others] -- Heuristics for applying laws to facts / Reid Hastie and Bernd Wittenbrink -- Heuristics in procedural law / Gerhard Wagner -- Train our jurors / Jonathan J. Koehler -- Rules of evidence as heuristics--heuristics as rules of evidence / Joachim Schulz -- Group report : what is the role of heuristics in litigation? / Callia Piperides, rapporteur ; Ronald J. Allen [and others] -- Adapt or optimize? the psychology and economics of rules of evidence / Robert Cooter -- Do legal rules rule behavior? / Ralph Hertwig -- Should we use decision aids or gut feelings? / Hal R. Arkes and Victoria A. Shaffer -- Law, information, and choice : capitalizing on heuristic habits of thought / Chris Guthrie -- Group report : how do heuristics mediate the impact of law on behavior? / Daniel G. Goldstein, rapporteur ; Hal R. Arkes [and others].

ISBN

• 9780262072755 (alk. paper)
• 0262072750 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2006045005

OCLC

• 67361665
• SCSB-10256943

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library