Browsing by Author "Hanson, Jon"
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The Blame Frame: Justifying (Racial) Injustice in America
Hanson, Kathleen; Hanson, Jon (2006)This Article attempts to elucidate how our forebears, who were presumably as devoted to justice and liberty in their times as we are in ours, failed to condemn behaviors that are today widely viewed as patently oppressive, ... -
Categorically Biased: The Influence of Knowledge Structures on Law and Legal Theory
Chen, Ronald; Hanson, Jon (2004)This Article focuses primarily on one slice of social psychology and social cognition research, namely the vast and vibrant field examining the integral role that knowledge structures play in the way we attend to, remember, ... -
The Costs of Dispositionism: The Premature Demise of Situationist Law and Economics
Benforado, Adam; Hanson, Jon (2005)This article was written for the 2005 Symposium: "Calabresi's Costs of Accidents: A Generation of Impact on Law and Scholarship" held at the University of Maryland Law School. Donald Gifford provided the following summary ... -
The Great Attributional Divide: How Divergent Views of Human Behavior are Shaping Legal Policy
Benforado, Adam; Hanson, Jon (2008)This article, the first of a multipart series, argues that a major rift runs across many of our major policy debates based on our attributional tendencies: the less accurate dispositionist approach, which explains outcomes ... -
The Illusion of Law: The Legitimating Schemas of Modern Policy and Corporate Law
Chen, Ronald; Hanson, Jon (2004)This Article is about some of the schemas and scripts that form and define our lives. It is about the knowledge structures that shape how we view the world and how we understand the limitless information with which we are ... -
Legal Academic Backlash: The Response of Legal Theorists to Situationist Insights
Benforado, Adam; Hanson, Jon (2008)This article is the third of a multipart series. The first part, "The Great Attributional Divide," argues that a major rift runs across many of our major policy debates based on our attributional tendencies: the less ... -
Naive Cynicism: Maintaining False Perceptions in Policy Debates
Benforado, Adam; Hanson, Jon (2008)This is the second article in a multi-part series. In the first part, The Great Attributional Divide, the authors suggested that a major rift runs across many of our major policy debates based on contrasting attributional ... -
The Situation: An Introduction to the Situational Character, Critical Realism, Power Economics, and Deep Capture
Hanson, Jon D.; Yosifon, David (University of Pennsylvania, 2003) -
The Situational Character: A Critical Realist Perspective on the Human Animal
Hanson, Jon; Yosifon, David G. (2004)This Article is dedicated to retiring the now-dominant "rational actor" model of human agency, together with its numerous "dispositionist" cohorts, and replacing them with a new conception of human agency that the authors ... -
Situationist Torts
Hanson, Jon; McCann, Michael (2008) -
Taking Behavioralism Seriously: A Response to Market Manipulation
Hanson, Jon; Kysar, Douglas A. (2000)In two previous articles, we hypothesize that, because consumers are subject to predictable cognitive processes that depart from rational utility maximization, manufacturers have the opportunity and incentive to manipulate ... -
Taking Behavioralism Seriously: Some Evidence of Market Manipulation
Hanson, Jon; Kysar, Douglas A. (1999)An important lesson of behavioralist research is that individuals' perceptions and preferences are highly manipulable. This article presents empirical evidence of market manipulation, a previously unrecognized source of ... -
Taking Behavioralism Seriously: The Problem of Market Manipulation
Hanson, Jon; Kysar, Douglas A. (1999)For the past few decades, cognitive psychologists and behavioral researchers have been steadily uncovering evidence that human decisionmaking processes are prone to nonrational, yet systematic, tendencies. These researchers ...