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Law and emotion: a proposed taxonomy of an emerging field.

Law and human behavior

Maroney TA.
PMID: 16786403
Law Hum Behav. 2006 Apr;30(2):119-42. doi: 10.1007/s10979-006-9029-9.

Scholars from diverse fields have begun to study the intersection of emotion and law. The notion that reason and emotion are cleanly separable--and that law rightly privileges and admits only of the former--is deeply engrained. Law and emotion scholarship...

Treating offenders with mental illness: a research synthesis.

Law and human behavior

Morgan RD, Flora DB, Kroner DG, Mills JF, Varghese F, Steffan JS.
PMID: 22471384
Law Hum Behav. 2012 Feb;36(1):37-50. doi: 10.1037/h0093964.

The purpose of this research synthesis was to examine treatment effects across studies of the service providers to offenders with mental illness. Meta-analytic techniques were applied to 26 empirical studies obtained from a review of 12,154 research documents. Outcomes...

Keeping kids in school through prearrest diversion: School disciplinary outcomes of the Philadelphia Police School Diversion Program.

Law and human behavior

Goldstein NES, NeMoyer A, Le T, Guo S, Cole LM, Pollard A, Kreimer R, Zhang F.
PMID: 34928646
Law Hum Behav. 2021 Dec;45(6):497-511. doi: 10.1037/lhb0000453.

OBJECTIVES: Developed to keep youth in school and out of court, the Philadelphia Police School Diversion Program allows youth to avoid arrest for specified school-based summary and misdemeanor offenses. This study examined whether diverted youth were also less likely...

Differences in the eyes of the beholders: The roles of subjective and objective judgments in sexual harassment claims.

Law and human behavior

Kimble KMK, Farnum KS, Wiener RL, Allen J, Nuss GD, Gervais SJ.
PMID: 26914857
Law Hum Behav. 2016 Jun;40(3):319-336. doi: 10.1037/lhb0000182. Epub 2016 Feb 25.

In 2 studies, we found support for current sexual harassment jurisprudence. Currently, the courts use a 2-prong test to determine the viability of a sexual harassment claim: that the adverse treatment is sufficiently severe or pervasive to alter conditions...

Affective forecasting about hedonic loss and adaptation: Implications for damage awards.

Law and human behavior

Greene E, Sturm KA, Evelo AJ.
PMID: 26914859
Law Hum Behav. 2016 Jun;40(3):244-56. doi: 10.1037/lhb0000181. Epub 2016 Feb 25.

In tort lawsuits, plaintiffs may seek damages for loss of enjoyment of life, so-called hedonic loss, which occurred as a result of an accident or injury. In 2 studies, we examined how people judge others' adaptation and hedonic loss...

A review and critique of the Sexual Experiences Questionnaire (SEQ).

Law and human behavior

Gutek BA, Murphy RO, Douma B.
PMID: 15499825
Law Hum Behav. 2004 Aug;28(4):457-82. doi: 10.1023/b:lahu.0000039335.96042.26.

This paper reviews and critiques the Sexual Experiences Questionnaire (SEQ), "... a self-report inventory representing the first attempt to assess the prevalence of sexual harassment in a manner that met traditional psychometric standards" (Fitzgerald, Gelfand, & Drasgow, 1995, p....

Strength of evidence, extraevidentiary influence, and the liberation hypothesis: data from the field.

Law and human behavior

Devine DJ, Buddenbaum J, Houp S, Studebaker N, Stolle DP.
PMID: 18546064
Law Hum Behav. 2009 Apr;33(2):136-48. doi: 10.1007/s10979-008-9144-x. Epub 2008 Jun 11.

To examine relationships between strength of evidence (SOE) and extraevidentiary variables in the context of Kalven and Zeisel's (The American Jury, 1966) liberation hypothesis, post-trial questionnaire data were collected from judges, attorneys, and jurors associated with 179 criminal jury...

Catching the bad guy: morphing composite faces helps.

Law and human behavior

Hasel LE, Wells GL.
PMID: 17053949
Law Hum Behav. 2007 Apr;31(2):193-207. doi: 10.1007/s10979-006-9007-2.

Composite faces built by eyewitnesses commonly are poor likenesses of the target face. When there are multiple witnesses, however, an opportunity exists to morph the composites. Morphs were rated as more similar to the target face than were the...

The effectiveness of opposing expert witnesses for educating jurors about unreliable expert evidence.

Law and human behavior

Levett LM, Kovera MB.
PMID: 17940854
Law Hum Behav. 2008 Aug;32(4):363-74. doi: 10.1007/s10979-007-9113-9. Epub 2007 Oct 17.

We tested whether an opposing expert is an effective method of educating jurors about scientific validity by manipulating the methodological quality of defense expert testimony and the type of opposing prosecution expert testimony (none, standard, addresses the other expert's...

Correlates of gun violence by criminal justice-involved adolescents.

Law and human behavior

Gonzales L, McNiel DE.
PMID: 31497983
Law Hum Behav. 2019 Sep 09; doi: 10.1037/lhb0000349. Epub 2019 Sep 09.

[Retraction notice: A retraction for this article was reported in Vol 43(6) of HYPOTHESES: We hypothesized (a) elevated psychiatric symptom clusters would be associated with increased risk for gun violence after accounting for criminogenic factors; and (b) neighborhood contextual...

Validation and measurement invariance of the Inventory of Callous-Unemotional Traits in Chinese incarcerated and normative samples.

Law and human behavior

Zheng Y, Zhang J, Huang L, Goulter N.
PMID: 34928648
Law Hum Behav. 2021 Dec;45(6):542-553. doi: 10.1037/lhb0000461.

OBJECTIVE: This study examined the factor structure and psychometric properties of the Inventory of Callous-Unemotional Traits (ICU) in a large sample of incarcerated Chinese male inmates and its measurement invariance with an independent normative sample of Chinese adults. We...

Callous-unemotional traits linked to earlier onset of self-reported and official delinquency in incarcerated boys.

Law and human behavior

Neo B, Kimonis ER.
PMID: 34928649
Law Hum Behav. 2021 Dec;45(6):554-565. doi: 10.1037/lhb0000472.

OBJECTIVE: Research shows that youth who engage in early delinquency have higher callous-unemotional (CU) traits than youth with a later start. This study extends prior research to determine the optimal delinquency onset age cutoff for identifying youth high versus...

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