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86 Cornell L. Rev. 777 (2000-2001)
Inside the Judicial Mind

handle is hein.journals/clqv86 and id is 785 raw text is: INSIDE THE JUDICIAL MIND
Chris Guthrie,t Jeffrey J. Rachlinski,#t &Andrewj Wi7strici f-f
INTRODUC-ION ................................................... 778
I.  TBE  S U Y ..............................................  784
A.  Participants .........................................  784
B.  Procedure  ..........................................  786
II.  RfsuLTs  ................................................  787
A.  Anchoring ..........................................  787
1. Anchoring- Our Materials ......................... 790
2. Anchoring: Results ............................... 791
3. Anchoring: Discussion ............................ 792
B.  Fram ing  ............................................  794
1. Framing- Our Materials ........................... 796
2. Framing- Results ................................. 797
3. Framing: Discussion .............................. 797
C. Hindsight Bias ...................................... 799
1. Hindsight Bias: Our Materials .................... 801
2. Hindsight Bias: Results ........................... 802
3. Hindsight Bias: Discussion ........................ 803
D. Representativeness Heuristic ........................ 805
1. Representativeness Heuristic: Our Materials ......... 808
2. Representativeness Heuristic: Results ................ 809
3. Representativeness Heuristic: Discussion ............. 810
t Acting Associate Dean, Associate Professor of Law & Senior Fellow at the Center for
the Study of Dispute Resolution, University of Missouri School of Law. BA. 1989, Stanford
University; Ed.M. 1991, Harvard University;J.D. 1994, Stanford University.
- Professor of Law, Cornell Law School. BA. 1988, Jolns Hopkins University; M.A
(Psychology) 1988, Johns Hopkins University; J.D. 1993, Stanford University; Ph.D. (Psy-
chology) 1994, Stanford University.
fft Magistrate Judge, United States District Court, Central District of California. A.B.
1972, 1973, University of California at Berkeley; J.D. 1976, University of Chicago.
The views expressed in this Article are solely those of the authors, and not of the
Federal judicial Center, the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, or theJudi-
cial Conference of the United States.
We are deeply indebted to the magistrate judges who participated in our study. This
Article benefitted enormously from the following- The comments of David Fischer, Tracey
George, Russell Korobkin, Jennifer Robbenolt, Lee Teitelbaum, and Tom Wlging; partici-
pants in the American Law and Economics Association 2000 Annual Meeting, the Federal
Judicial Center Workshop for United States Magistrate Judges I & II, 1999, the Canadian
Law and Economics Association 2000 Annual Meeting, and the Law & Society Association
2000 Annual Meeting; and workshops at Columbia Law School, the University of San Di-
ego School of Law, Washington University School of Law, the Willamette College of Law,
and Yale Law School. We thank the University of Missouri Law School Foundation and the
Hewlett Foundation for financial support.

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