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To Dollars from Sense: Qualitative to Quantitative Translation in Jury Damage Awards
Author(s) -
Hans Valerie P.,
Reyna Valerie F.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of empirical legal studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.529
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1740-1461
pISSN - 1740-1453
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-1461.2011.01233.x
Subject(s) - jury , damages , ranking (information retrieval) , categorical variable , construct (python library) , reputation , psychology , numeracy , actuarial science , social psychology , economics , computer science , political science , law , artificial intelligence , machine learning , programming language , pedagogy , literacy
This article offers a new multistage account of jury damage award decision making. Drawing on psychological and economic research on judgment, decision making, and numeracy, the model posits that jurors first make a categorical gist judgment that money damages are warranted, and then make an ordinal gist judgment ranking the damages deserved as low, medium, or high. They then construct numbers that fit the gist of the appropriate magnitude. The article employs data from jury decision‐making research to explore the plausibility of the model.