Book chapter
Backlash: The Reaction to Mind Sciences in Legal Academia
Ideology, Psychology, and Law
11 Jan 2012
Abstract
This chapter demonstrates that naive cynicism is a pervasive dynamic that shapes policy debates big and small. It argues that naïve cynicism can operate at a particular moment or over long periods of time, and that naïve cynicism is embraced and encouraged by both elite knowledge-producers and the average person on the street. Examining the reactions of prominent academics to situationist scholarship, the chapter offers evidence that naive cynicism has played a significant role in retarding the growth and influence of insights drawn from social psychology and related fields within the dominant legal theoretical frameworks of the last half-century. Despite providing a more accurate depiction of the behavior of legal actors, this research from the mind sciences has been dismissed for decades in favor of commonsense dispositionist notions of causation, responsibility, and blame.
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Details
- Title
- Backlash: The Reaction to Mind Sciences in Legal Academia
- Creators
- Jon HansonAdam Benforado
- Publication Details
- Ideology, Psychology, and Law
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Thomas R. Kline School of Law
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84921711986
- Other Identifier
- 991019173716804721