Peter Huang (Law, Temple) and Christopher Anderson (Psychology, Temple) have posted "A Psychology of Emotional Legal Decision Making: Revulsion and Saving Face in Legal Theory and Practice" to SSRN. Here is the abstract:
We provide an overview of interactions between emotions, psychology, and laws. We analyze roles that revulsion can and should play in law. We examine roles that saving and losing “face” can and should play in law. We speculate about constructive role that positive and negative emotions may play in law, to respond to Martha Nussbaum’s argument that two negative emotions, disgust and shame, threaten to disrupt functioning of legal systems. Finally, we offer ideas for future research based on foundations that are suggested by Martha Nussbaum’s book, Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law.
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