Titlebook: Judicial Decision Making; Is Psychology Releva Lawrence S. Wrightsman Book 1999 Springer Science+Business Media New York 1999 Supreme Court

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How Do Judges Decide?,nitiated an intense debate. At issue: the legality of same-sex marriages. In Hawaii three same-sex couples (a pair of men and two pairs of women) had applied for marriage licenses, based on their reading of that state’s Equal Rights Amendment. Their requests were quickly rejected by a judge. (The de

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Opinion Formation and Expression, judicial conference to discuss the case. Prior to the conference, each justice has participated in the decision of whether to hear the case, has presumably read the briefs prepared by each side, and has sat through (and perhaps participated in) the oral arguments. Even so, each justice’s initial op

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The Role of the Chief Justice,at different times by the name of its chief justice (e.g., “the Warren Court,” “the Rehnquist Court”) implying that the chief justice exceeds his brethren in power as well as in prestige—but does the chief really have a heightened ability to persuade the other justices? This chapter examines the inf

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History of the Psychology-Law Relationship,l success are sufficient. Recognition by peers and the public reflect other examples of external inducements. In contrast, some scientists seek understanding of a process-perhaps the mastery of an elusive phenomenon, whether physical or mental.

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,The American Psychological Association’s Organized , Activity,ce in the case. The inclusion of such briefs has been traced back to an appearance by Henry Clay before the Supreme Court in 1821 (Krislov,1963), although more than a hundred years would pass before anything about . briefs was incorporated into the Supreme Court’s rules of procedure (Menez, 1984). T

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The Future of the Psychology-Law Relationship, first half of the book was that a psychological analysis of judicial decision making is fruitful because judges’ values and motives serve as a kind of filter when approaching the issues in a given case. Now we turn to some of the implications of value-influenced decision making, specifically, the i