CSLP and the Southern California Law Review present
Symposium:
Modeling Human Decision Making in the Law
Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
&
Wednesday, February 29th, 2012
8:00 AM - 11:30 AM
USC Law Faculty Lounge (Room 433)
USC Gould School of Law
University of Southern California
699 Exposition Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90089
Driving Directions
If you wish to attend, RSVP to Christopher Schnieders at cschnieders@law.usc.edu.
For more information, please call (213) 740-5714.
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8:00 - 8:30 AM
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Continental Breakfast |
| Panel 1: The Science of Decision Making | |
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8:30 - 9:30 AM
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John Monterosso (USC) "Challenges to Current Brain Accounts of Self-Control" |
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9:30 - 10:30 AM
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Jeffrey Rachlinski (Cornell University)
Andrew Wistrich (Federal Magistrate Judge) "How Lawyers' Intuitions Prolong Litigation" |
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10:30 - 11:30 AM
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Joshua Tasoff (Claremont Graduate University)
"Overoptimism and Nudges: A Mail-In Rebate Experiment" |
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11:30 - 12:30 PM
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Lunch |
| Panel 2: The Science of Prejudice | |
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12:30 - 1:30 PM
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Shanto Iyengar (Stanford University) "Explicit and Implicit Racial Attitudes: A Test of their Convergent and Predictive Validity" |
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1:30 - 2:30 PM
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Arthur Lupia (University of Michigan) "A Theory of Prejudice and Why it Persists (or To Whom is Obama Still Black?)" |
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2:30 - 3:00 PM
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Break |
| Panel 3: Perspectives on Decision Making | |
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3:00 - 4:00 PM
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Dan Simon (USC) "The Cognitive Malleability of Facts and Beliefs" |
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4:00 - 5:00 PM
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Mathew McCubbins (USC)
Mark Turner (Case Western Cognitive Sciences) "Consistently Inconsistent" |
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5:00 - 6:00 PM
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Juan Carrillo (USC) Isabelle Brocas (USC) "The Neurobiology of Opinions: Can Judges and Juries be Impartial?" |
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8:00 - 8:30 AM
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Continental Breakfast |
| Panel 4: The Science of Group Behavior | |
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8:30 - 9:30 AM
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Mathew McCubbins (USC) Daniel Rodriguez (Northwestern University) Nicholas Weller (USC) "Cheap, Easy or Connected: The Conditions for Creating Group Coordination" |
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9:30 - 10:30 AM
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Mathew McCubbins (USC)
Mark Turner (Case Western Cognitive Sciences) "The Court Will Now Come To Order: How To Fit Law To The Human Mind" |
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10:30 - 11:30 AM
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Daniel Enemark (UC San Diego)
Is Equilibrium Level-Headed? Conditions for the Use of Equilibrium Solution Concepts in the Study of Law |
