Previous research has shown that making complex judgments and decisions entails a
mental reconstruction of the task in a way that increases the state of coherence between the …

Although judges may be well intended when taking an oath to be impartial when they reach
the bench, psychological and legal literature suggests that their legal approaches …

Social psychology and real experiences show that cognitive consistency plays an important
role to keep human society in order: if people have a more consistent cognition about their …

There has recently been an upsurge of interest in the deployment of behavioural economics
techniques in the information security and privacy domain. In this paper, we consider the …

This chapter describes how a structural model of deservingness governed by a principle of
balance may be applied to the analysis of emotions relating to deserved or undeserved …

Causation looms large in legal and moral reasoning. People construct causal models of the
social and physical world to understand what has happened, how and why, and to allocate …

Research on the effects of emotions and moods on judgments of legal responsibility and
blame is reviewed. Emotions and moods may influence decision makers in 3 ways: by …

This article describes field research methods that provide advances in developing accurate
theories of business-to-business (B2B) decision processes. The article supports and …

In a companion article we introduced the concept of" critical realism," our name for an
analytic posture that strives to begin with as real an account of the human animal-the …

Psychological heuristics are an adaptive part of human cognition, helping us operate
efficiently in a world full of complex stimuli. However, these mental shortcuts also have the …