Table of Contents

Emotion and the Law: A Field Whose Time Has Come.- Affect in Legal and Forensic Settings: The Cognitive Benefits of Not Being Too Happy.- Emotional Influences on Judgments of Legal Blame: How They Happen, Whether They Should, and What to Do About It.- 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.

Reviews

"Many psychologists testify in court as expert witnesses, help in jury selection, work in prisons, and are involved in rehabilitation activities. But they are almost all clinical psychologists fosucing on individual cases rather than bringing empirical research to bear in judicial proceedings. One main reason, as Emotion and the Law: Psychological Perspectives inadvertently makes clear, is that researchers and those trained in the law have utterly different, and incompatible worldviews.As it stands, Emotion and the Law may nevertheless be useful for graduate students in forensic psychology and criminal justice as well as to legal scholars concerned with how psychological processes may influence judicial decision making. If it serves to bring these groups closer together, so much the better." -- PsycCRITIQUES, July 20, 2011