Research Catalog

Title

Beyond common sense : psychological science in the courtroom / edited by Eugene Borgida and Susan T. Fiske.

Publication

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2008.

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Additional Authors

• Borgida, Eugene
• Fiske, Susan T.

Description

xl, 404 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Abstract

Subject

• Forensic psychology > United States
• Justice, Administration of > Psychological aspects > United States
• Discrimination in justice administration > Psychological aspects > United States
• Discrimination > United States
• Physical-appearance-based bias
• Justice, Administration of > United States > Psychological aspects
• Discrimination in justice administration > United States > Psychological aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Race, crime, and antidiscrimination / R. Richard Banks, Jennifer L. Eberhardt, and Lee Ross -- Discrimination in America and legal strategies for reducing it / Faye J. Crosby and John F. Dovidio -- The young science of prejudice against older adults : established answers and open questions about ageism / Todd D. Nelson -- Gender prejudice : on the risks of occupying incongruent roles / Alice H. Eagly and Anne M. Koenig -- From the laboratory to the bench : gender stereotyping research in the courtroom / Laurie A. Rudman, Peter Glick, and Julie E. Phelan -- (Un)common knowledge : the legal viability of sexual harassment research / Louise F. Fitzgerald and Linda L. Collinsworth -- Subjectivity in the appraisal process : a facilitator of gender bias in work settings / Madeline E. Heilman and Michelle C. Haynes -- Eyewitness identification : issues in common knowledge and generalization / Gary L. Wells and Lisa E. Hasel --
• Repressed and recovered memory / Elizabeth F. Loftus, Maryanne Garry, and Harlene Hayne -- Expert testimony on the psychology of confessions : a pyramidal framework of the relevant science / Saul M. Kassin -- Polygraph testing / William G. Iacono -- Social science and the evolving standards of death penalty law / Phoebe C. Ellsworth and Samuel R. Gross -- Pretrial publicity : effects, remedies, and judicial knowledge / Margaret Bull Kovera and Sarah M. Greathouse -- Media violence, aggression, and public policy / Craig A. Anderson and Douglas A. Gentile -- The limits of science in the courtroom / David L. Faigman -- Research on eyewitness testimony and false confessions / Margaret A. Berger -- Commentary on research relevant to sex discrimination and sexual harassment / Barbara A. Gutek -- The tenuous bridge between research and reality : the importance of research design in inferences regarding work behavior / Frank J. Landy --
• Psychological contributions to evaluating witness testimony / Shari Seidman Diamond -- Beyond common-sense understandings of sex and race discrimination / R. Richard Banks -- Behavioral realism in law : reframing the discussion about social science's place in antidiscrimination law and policy / Linda Hamilton Krieger.

ISBN

• 9781405145732 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9781405145749 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007019834

OCLC

137222758

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library