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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451920503321

Titolo

Heuristics and the law [[electronic resource] /] / edited by G. Gigerenzer and C. Engel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

0-262-29340-4

1-282-09741-5

9786612097416

0-262-27382-9

1-4294-1609-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (502 p.)

Collana

Dahlem workshop reports

Altri autori (Persone)

GigerenzerGerd

EngelChristoph <1956->

Disciplina

340/.1

Soggetti

Law - Methodology

Heuristic

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

DahlemWorkshops; List of Participants; Preface; 1 Law and Heuristics; 2 Heuristics; 3 The Problems with Heuristics for Law; 4 Social Dilemmas Revisited from a Heuristics Perspective; 5 Heuristics inside the Firm; 6 Group Report: Are Heuristics a Problem or a Solution?; 7 The Optimal Complexity of Legal Rules; 8 Bottom-up versus Top-down Lawmaking; 9 Evolutionary Psychology,Moral Heuristics, and the Law; 10 The Evolutionary and Cultural Origins of Heuristics That Influence Lawmaking; 11 Group Report: What Is the Role of Heuristics in Making Law?; 12 Heuristics for Applying Laws to Facts

13 Heuristics in Procedural Law14 Train Our Jurors; 15 Rules of Evidence as Heuristics-Heuristics as Rules of Evidence; 16 Group Report: What Is the Role of Heuristics in Litigation?; 17 Adapt or Optimize?; 18 Do Legal Rules Rule Behavior?; 19 ShouldWe Use Decision Aids or Gut Feelings?; 20 Law, Information, and Choice; 21 Group



Report: How Do Heuristics Mediate the Impact of Law on Behavior?; Author Index; Name Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

Experts in law, psychology, and economics explore the power of "fast and frugal" heuristics in the creation and implementation of law.