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21 - Wandering into Psychology and Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 September 2022

By
Phoebe C. Ellsworth
Edited by
Saul Kassin
Saul Kassin
Affiliation:
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
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Summary

Some people have a passion for a single topic that motivates and engages them for life. I’m not one of them. I can get interested in almost anything, and my career looks more like a random walk through a candy store than a single-minded pursuit of a goal. I am both a theorist and researcher in the field of emotion and a contributor to the application of psychology to legal issues. In this piece I will focus on my work in psychology and law. A review of my research on emotion can be found in Ellsworth and Scherer (2003).

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Pillars of Social Psychology
Stories and Retrospectives
 , pp. 177 - 185
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Carlsmith, J. M., Ellsworth, P. C., & Aronson, E. (1976). Methods of Research in Social Psychology. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.Google Scholar
Cowan, C., Thompson, W., & Ellsworth, P. C. (1984). The effects of death qualification on jurors’ predisposition to convict and on the quality of deliberation. Law and Human Behavior, 8, 53–79.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ellsworth, P. C., & Levy, R. J. (1969). Legislative reform of child custody adjudication: An effort to rely on social science data in formulating legal policies. Law and Society Review, 4, 167–233.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ellsworth, P. C., & Ross, L. (1983). Public opinion and capital punishment: A close examination of the views of abolitionists and retentionists. Crime & Delinquency, 29, 116–169.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ellsworth, P. C., & Scherer, K. R. (2003). Appraisal processes in emotion. In Davidson, R. J., Goldsmith, H., & Scherer, K. R. (Eds.), Handbook of Affective Sciences (pp. 572–595). New York: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972).Google Scholar
Lockhart v. McCree, 476 U.S. 162 (1986).Google Scholar
Thompson, W. C., Cowan, C. L., Ellsworth, P. C., & Harrington, J. C. (1984). Death penalty attitudes and conviction proneness: The translation of attitudes into verdicts. Law and Human Behavior, 8, 95–113.Google Scholar
Witherspoon v. Illinois, 391 U.S. 510 (1968).Google Scholar

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