Behavioral Jurisprudence: Law Needs a Behavioral Revolution
There is now a large body of empirical work that calls into question the traditional legal assumptions about how law shapes behavior.
May 18th, 2022
justice system
May 24th, 2021
A Conversation with Daniel Kahneman About ‘Noise’
Ten years on from “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, Kahneman is back with a new book, “Noise”, that will again have you questioning what you thought you knew about making decisions.
October 19th, 2020
Research Lead: Commute Nostalgia, Lessons from NASA, Nobel Winners, Crusaders, Cooperators and the Complicit, and More
The Research Lead is a monthly digest connecting you to noteworthy academic and applied research from around the behavioral sciences. Here are our picks for October 2020.
February 26th, 2018
Improving the Summons Process in New York City
The current system of court summons strains everyone involved. There’s another way to approach the problem.
October 16th, 2015
Teens, False Confessions, and Perceptions of the Police
There is no question that teenagers like Marty Tankleff and the Central Park Five suffered enormous miscarriages of justice—having spent years in prison for confessing to crimes they didn’t commit.
May 28th, 2015
Better Served In A Hospital, But Serving Time: Q&A With First Psychologist To Lead A Major US Jail
This past week, an indication of just how entangled mental health and criminal justice have become, Chicago’s Cook County Jail announced that Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia, a clinical psychologist, will become the Executive Director of the jail.
October 21st, 2014
Coerced to Confess: The Psychology of False Confessions
On a spring night in 1989, a 28 year-old white woman was brutally raped and nearly murdered while jogging through Central Park.
September 03rd, 2014
Why Governor Nixon has to remove prosecutor from Michael Brown Case
We are a long way from knowing precisely what happened in Ferguson, two weeks ago, but one thing is clear: The town’s name has become yet another synonym for the chasm of experience dividing white and black America.
