"IDEOLOGY" OR "SITUATION SENSE"? AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF MOTIVATED REASONING AND PROFESSIONAL JUDGMENT

• Published in: University of Pennsylvania law review Vol. 164; no. 2; pp. 349 - 439
• Main Authors: Kahan, Dan M., Hoffman, David, Evans, Danieli, Devins, Neal, Lucci, Eugene, Cheng, Katherine
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Philadelphia students of the University of Pennsylvania Law School 01.01.2016; University of Pennsylvania, Law School; University of Pennsylvania Law School
• Subjects: Attitudes; BIAS; CLIMATE CHANGE; Cognition & reasoning; Court decisions; Decision making; Ideology; Judges & magistrates; Judgment; Judgment (Logic); JUDGMENTS; Judicial process; Law and legislation; Lawyers; Legal studies; Marijuana; Political aspects; Reasoning; RISK; STATUTORY INTERPRETATION; UNITED STATES

This Article reports the results of a study on whether political predispositions influence judicial decisionmaking. The study was designed to overcome the two principal limitations on existing empirical studies that purport to find such an influence: the use of nonexperimental methods to assess the...