Borgida

Beyond Common Sense

Psychological Science in the Courtroom
Herausgeber: Borgida, Eugene; Fiske, Susan T

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Psychological science challenges and sometimes contradicts common sense ideas about stereotyping, prejudice, discrimination, and other behavioral domains that intersect with legal processes such as eyewitness identification, repressed memories, polygraph testing, and affirmative action. Beyond Common Sense confronts the public's often erroneous beliefs about human behavior in legal contexts like the courtroom. Featuring original chapters written by leading experts in psychological science, each chapter identifies areas of scientific agreement and disagreement and discusses how psychological science advances an understanding of human behavior beyond what is accessible by common sense and intuitive beliefs. The book concludes with commentaries written by leading social science and law scholars that discuss key legal and scientific themes and illustrate how psychological science is, or can be, used in the courts and in other policy contexts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Turner Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 644g
• ISBN-13: 9781405145749
• ISBN-10: 1405145749
• Artikelnr.: 22716054

Autorenporträt

Eugene Borgida is Professor of Psychology and Law at the University of Minnesota and Morse-Alumni Distinguished Professor of Psychology. He is also co-author of the forthcoming book, The Political Psychology of Democratic Citizenship (with John L. Sullivan and Christopher Federico). Susan T. Fiske is Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology at Princeton University. Her publications include Social Cognition From Brains to Culture (with Shelley Taylor, 2008) and Social Beings: A Core Motives Approach to Social Psychology (2004).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword.

Introduction.

Part I: Psychological Science on Stereotyping, Prejudice, andDiscrimination.

Part II: Psychological Science on Legal System Processes.

Part III: Commentaries.

Index

Rezensionen

"An excellent book on the current state of the knowledge ofpsychological science applied to the legal system. This book had mehooked from the moment I read the foreword ... and kept meinterested through the end of the last commentary ... .Therewere numerous highlights ... .The contents of this book are notjust informative but timely. In summary, this book is excellent andis highly recommended for the general public, students, and legaland psychological practitioners and researchers. Borgida and Fiskemake it very apparent that scientific psychologists have anunderstanding of human thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that canaid legal decision makers." (PsycCritiques, December2008)

"Eugene Borgida and Susan Fiske assembled a distinguishedgroup of psychological scientists to articulate the state ofscientific findings on issues of relevance to modern litigation... .I highly recommend this book to a wide variety ofaudiences ... .This is a timely and important volume thatshould be widely read. It will not be a waste of time."(Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 2008)"This collection is a gem! It unmasks the fallacies on race andgender that pass for 'common sense' so skillfully thatit is hard to read without shouting 'Aha!'"
-Nancy Cantor, Chancellor and President, SyracuseUniversity

"This is a timely and extremely interesting analysis of the manyways in which psychological science can contribute to a moreaccurate understanding of various psychological issues often raisedin legal proceedings. This book will be useful, and a very goodread, for the general public as well as the psychological and legalcommunities."
-Sharon S. Brehm, Indiana University Bloomington,President of the American Psychological Association (2007)

"This book is an indispensable guide--for scholars andpractitioners alike--to the psychological science of the legalsystem. Its pages are filled with important, hard-won lessons thatwe can turn to our advantage or ignore at our peril."
-Daniel Gilbert, Harvard University

"The legal system is also a system of perception, emotion,interpersonal relations, and judgment. It is thus crucial thatlawyers, social scientists and indeed the broader public understandits psychological dimensions. This volume assembles key examples ofthe recent strides psychologists have made in understandingcourtroom processes and the psychosocial dimensions that shape howlaw works in a variety of settings from workplaces to the media. Itwill be a vital resource for both professionals andstudents."
-Craig Calhoun, President, Social Science ResearchCouncil

"Incrementally, chapter by chapter, this world-class collectionof scholars and researchers upends our common sense understandingsof human prejudice and the law's ability to control it. Yet, justas importantly, it brings to the fore a vastly deeper understandingof these issues. It is more than a state of the art collection. Itis a classic collection that, for a long time, will beindispensable to discussions of prejudice and the law, as well asthe relationship between science and the public good."
-Claude M. Steele, Stanford University