Coherence based reasoning and models of contract law

Title: Coherence based reasoning and models of contract law
Creator: Close, Natalie; Heathcote, Andrew; Ellinghaus, Fred; Wright, Ted
Relation: 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2009). CogSci 2009 Proceedings (Amsterdam, Netherlands 29 July - 1 August, 2009) p. 1740-1745
Relation: http://csjarchive.cogsci.rpi.edu/Proceedings/2009/papers/368/index.html
Publisher: Cognitive Science Society
Resource Type: conference paper
Date: 2009
Description: We report the results of an experiment examining the effect of the system of rules (law model) that govern the adjudication of difficult real-world contract law disputes by senior law students. Participants rated the importance of facts that varied in relevance to the dispute throughout the course of making a decision. Similar to the coherence shift noted by other researchers studying legal decision making, the importance of facts decreased or increased consistent with their relevance as dictated by the law model and the participant’s emerging decision. We simulated these results, and the interaction between the effects of dispute difficulty and law model on decision consensus, using a constraint satisfaction network.
Subject: legal reasoning; coherence shift; models of law
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/919782
Identifier: uon:8981
Identifier: ISBN:9780976831853
Language: eng
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