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August 2006
6 x 9, 501 pp., 24 illus.
$43.00/£31.95 (CLOTH)
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ISBN-10:
0-262-07275-0
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-07275-5

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Dahlem Workshop Reports
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Heuristics and the Law
Edited by Gerd Gigerenzer and Christoph Engel

Dahlem Workshopsvii
List of Participantsxi
Prefacexv
1.Law and Heuristics: An Interdisciplinary Venture
Christoph Engel and Gerd Gigerenzer
1
2.Heuristics
Gerd Gigerenzer
17
3.The Problems with Heuristics for Law
Russell Korobkin
45
4.Social Dilemmas Revisited from a Heuristics Perspective
Christoph Engel
61
5.Heuristics inside the Firm: Perspectives from Behavioral Law and Economics
Donald C. Langevoort
87
6.Group Report: Are Heuristics a Problem or a Solution?
Douglas A. Kysar, Peter Ayton, Robert H. Frank, Bruno S. Frey, Gerd Gigerenzer, Paul W. Glimcher, Russell Korobkin, Donald C. Langevoort and Stefan Magen
103
7.The Optimal Complexity of Legal Rules
Richard A. Epstein
141
8.Bottom-up versus Top-down Lawmaking
Jeffrey J. Rachlinski
159
9.Evolutionary Psychology, Moral Heuristics, and the Law
Leda Cosmides and John Tooby
175
10.The Evolutionary and Cultural Origins of Heuristics That Influence Lawmaking
Wolfgang Fikentscher
207
11.Group Report: What Is the Role of Heuristics in Making Law?
Jonathan Haidt, Susanne Baer, Leda Cosmides, Richard A. Epstein, Wolfgang Fikentscher, Eric J. Johnson, Jeffrey J. Rachlinski, Clara Sattler de Sousa e Brito and Indra Spiecker genannt Döhmann
239
12.Heuristics for Applying Laws to Facts
Reid Hastie and Bernd Wittenbrink
259
13.Heuristics in Procedural Law
Gerhard Wagner
281
14.Train Our Jurors
Jonathan J. Koehler
303
15.Rules of Evidence as Heuristics--Heuristics as Rules of Evidence
Joachim Schulz
327
16.Group Report: What Is the Role of Heuristics in Litigation?
Callia Piperides, Ronald J. Allen, Mandeep K. Dhami, Axel Flessner, Reid Hastie, Jonathan J. Koehler, Richard Lempert, Joachim Schulz and Gerhard Wagner
343
17.Adapt or Optimize? The Psychology and Economics of Rules of Evidence
Robert Cooter
379
18.Do Legal Rules Rule Behavior?
Ralph Hertwig
391
19.Should We Use Decision Aids or Gut Feelings?
Hal R. Arkes and Victoria A. Shaffer
411
20.Law, Information, and Choice: Capitalizing on Heuristic Habits of Thought
Chris Guthrie
425
21.Group Report: How Do Heuristics Mediate the Impact of Law on Behavior?
Daniel G. Goldstein, Hal R. Arkes, Martin Beckenkamp, Robert Cooter, Robert C. Ellickson, Christoph Engel, Chris Guthrie, Ralph Hertwig, Stephanie Kurzenhäuser and Elke U. Weber
439
Author Index467
Name Index469
Subject Index477
 
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