Emotion and the Law: A Field Whose Time Has Come

摘要: Psychological research on emotion has a rich and varied history. A number of protopsychologists (e.g., Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, Hume) wrote about the effect passions human thought behavior, empirical work dates back over 100 years James 1890/1950). Emotion long been central component social, personality, clinical psychology, it is increasingly being integrated into other psychological subdisciplines, such as cognitive physiological psychology. In fact, contributions neuroscience to understanding role in decision making recently “taken off,” cataloged recent reviews this burgeoning field Winkielman Cacioppo 2006). contrast neuroscientific approach, collected present volume focuses molar judgments behavior (Forgas et al. 2006), conduct that characteristic many actors legal system. As such, social models judgment real-world context law policy making.