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72 Ala. L. Rev. 887 (2020-2021)
The Empirical Reasonable Person

handle is hein.journals/bamalr72 and id is 927 raw text is: THE EMPIRICAL REASONABLE PERSON By Christopher Brett Jaeger INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................... 889 I. TORT LAW 'S REASONABLE PERSON ......................................................... 894 A. The Reasonable Person as the Standard for Negligence ............................. 894 B. D ebate A bout the Reasonable Person ...................................................... 897 1. E mpirical Reasonableness ................................................................ 898 a. The A verage Reasonable Person............................................... 898 b. The A spirational Reasonable Person........................................ 901 2. Principle-Based Reasonableness ........................................................ 904 a. The E conomic Reasonable Person............................................. 905 b. Other Principle-Based D efinitions ............................................ 907 3. Hybrid Reasonableness .................................................................... 908 C. A Lay Perspective of the Reasonable Person.................... 909 II. INVESTIGATING LAY CONCEPTIONS OF THE REASONABLE PERSON . 910 A . Experiment One: E mpirical versus E conomic.......................................... 911 1. Overview.......................................................................................... 911 2. Method............................................................................................911 a. Participants.............................................................................911 b. Procedure.................................................................................912 c. Hypotheses .............................................................................. 915 3. Anayses and Results....................................................................... 916 B. Experiment Two: Empirical versus Economic, Revisited .......................... 919 1. Overview.......................................................................................... 919 2. M ethod............................................................................................920 a. Participants .............................................................................920 b. Procedure.................................................................................920 c. Hypotheses .............................................................................. 920 3. A nalyses and Results....................................................................... 920 C. E xperiment Three: A verage versus A spirational...................................... 922 1. Overview..........................................................................................922 2. Method............................................................................................923 a. Partiapants.............................................................................923 b. Procedure.................................................................................923 c. Hpotheses..............................................................................924 3. Analyses and Results....................................................................... 924 D . Experiment Four: A dditional Contexts .................................................. 927 887

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