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035 _a(DE-B1597)548462
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082 0 4 _a347.06019
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aSaks, Michael J.
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Psychological Foundations of Evidence Law /
_cBarbara A. Spellman, Michael J. Saks.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bNew York University Press,
_c[2016]
264 4 _c©2016
300 _a1 online resource
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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490 0 _aPsychology and the Law ;
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506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aEvidence law is meant to facilitate trials that are fair, accurate, and efficient, and that encourage and protect important societal values and relationships. In pursuit of these often-conflicting goals, common law judges and modern drafting committees have had to perform as amateur applied psychologists. Their task has required them to employ what they think they know about the ability and motivations of witnesses to perceive, store, and retrieve information; about the effects of the litigation process on testimony and other evidence; and about our capacity to comprehend and evaluate evidence. These are the same phenomena that cognitive and social psychologists systematically study.The rules of evidence have evolved to restrain lawyers from using the most robust weapons of influence, and to direct judges to exclude certain categories of information, limit it, or instruct juries on how to think about it. Evidence law regulates the form of questions lawyers may ask, filters expert testimony, requires witnesses to take oaths, and aims to give lawyers and factfinders the tools they need to assess witnesses' reliability. But without a thorough grounding in psychology, is the "common sense" of the rulemakers as they create these rules always, or even usually, correct? And when it is not, how can the rules be fixed?Addressed to those in both law and psychology, The Psychological Foundations of Evidence Law draws on the best current psychological research-based knowledge to identify and evaluate the choices implicit in the rules of evidence, and to suggest alternatives that psychology reveals as better for accomplishing the law's goals.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)
650 0 _aEvidence (Law)
_xPsychological aspects.
650 0 _aForensic psychology.
650 7 _aLAW / Evidence.
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700 1 _aSpellman, Barbara A.
_eautore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814768785
856 4 2 _3Cover
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