To Dollars from Sense: Qualitative to Quantitative Translation in Jury Damage Awards

Valerie P. Hans and Valerie F. Reyna

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 2011, vol. 8, issue s1, 120-147

Abstract: This article offers a new multistage account of jury damage award decision making. Drawing on psychological and economic research on judgment, decision making, and numeracy, the model posits that jurors first make a categorical gist judgment that money damages are warranted, and then make an ordinal gist judgment ranking the damages deserved as low, medium, or high. They then construct numbers that fit the gist of the appropriate magnitude. The article employs data from jury decision‐making research to explore the plausibility of the model.

Date: 2011
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