Kysar,D.A.
Ayton,P.
Frank,R.H.
Frey,B.S.
Gigerenzer,G.
Glimcher,P.W.
Korobkin,R.
Langevoort,D.C.
Magen,S.

(From the chapter) This chapter surveys a range of methodological, descriptive, and prescriptive issues concerning the implications of cognitive psychology for law. Included are (a) a general introduction to the subject of heuristics in decision theory, with particular attention to the distinction between optimality-based and heuristic-based decision making models within psychology; (b) an attempt to synthesize these two psychological research paradigms into a single conceptual framework that helps to identify important areas in which further research and understanding are needed; (c) an overview of scholarship to date on heuristics and the law, including an observation that this scholarship has ignored certain significant lessons of the heuristics research tradition in psychology; and (d) a compilation of suggestions for future interdisciplinary research concerning both the use of heuristics by legal subjects whose behavior the law is attempting to influence and the use of heuristics by policy makers as a model for the substantive design of legal rules. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved)

Kysar, D. A., Ayton, P., Frank, R. H., Frey, B. S., Gigerenzer, G., Glimcher, P. W., Korobkin, R., Langevoort, D. C., & Magen, S. (2006). Group report: Are heuristics a problem or a solution? In G. Gigerenzer & C. Engel (Eds.), Heuristics and the law (pp. 102-140). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Publication year	2006
Document type:	In book
Publication status:	Published
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Keywords:	behaviorcognitive psychologydecision makingdecision theoryforensic psychologyheuristicshumanlaw (government)lawsmodelsdecision making modelslawlegal rules