Emotion and the Law Psychological Perspectives /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bornstein, Brian H. (Editor), Wiener, Richard L. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
• Series: Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, 56
• Subjects: Philosophy (General).; Psychology, clinical.; Consciousness.; Law > Psychological aspects.; Psychology.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Clinical Psychology.; Law and Psychology.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0696-0

From questions surrounding motives to the concept of crimes of passion, the intersection of emotional states and legal practice has long interested professionals as well as the publicrecent cases involving extensive pretrial publicity, highly charged evidence, and instances of jury nullification co...

Table of Contents:

• Emotion and the Law: A Field Whose Time Has Come
• Affect in Legal and Forensic Settings
• Emotional Influences on Judgments of Legal Blame
• Explorations in Juror Emotion and Juror Judgment
• Inner Terror and Outward Hate: The Effects of Mortality Salience on Bias Motivated Attacks
• Truth in Emotional Memories
• A Moody View of The Law: Looking Back and Looking Ahead at Law and the Emotions.