A few decades ago, it was pretty common to mush together priming effects and framing effects and see them as two closely connected parts of a single Bigger Truth about the human mind. Of course, everyone understood that the effects themselves were a bit different, but one common view was that they were providing evidence…
Month: May 2025
Hot Off The Press: “The Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Jurisprudence”
Recently, “The Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Jurisprudence,” a new entry in the “Cambridge Law Handbooks” series, has been published. It was edited by Kevin Tobia and contains no fewer than 38 chapters. See below for the table of contents. Part 1 – Foundations and Theory Part 2 – Introductions Part 3 – Applications Literature Tobia, Kevin…
Do People Think That Free Will Is Incompatible with Determinism?
Imagine a universe in which everything that happens is completely caused by the things that happened before. Suppose, for example, that Mia has a bagel for breakfast. Her act of having a bagel for breakfast would be caused by the way things were right before that, which would be caused by the way things were…