The field of law and emotion draws from a range of disciplines in the sciences, social
sciences, and humanities to shed light on the emotions that pervade the legal system. It …

In the past few decades, economic analysis of law has been challenged by a growing body
of experimental and empirical studies that attest to prevalent and systematic deviations from …

This paper is an empirical study of partial hedonic adaptation. It provides longitudinal
evidence that people who become disabled go on to exhibit considerable recovery in mental …

The passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990 was hailed as revolutionary
legislation, but in the ensuing years restrictive Supreme Court decisions have prompted …

1." Law and emotions" scholarship explores the reciprocal relations between emotions and
the law. It reflects pluralism along several dimensions:(1) attributes of cognition: law and …

This is a crucial juncture for US disability law. In 2008, Congress passed the ADA
Amendments Act (ADAAA), which aims to reverse the courts' narrowing interpretations of the …

This chapter explores the interaction of tort law and psychology. The law of torts governs the
circumstances under which one person or entity is to be held civilly liable for having caused …

Subjective well-being (SWB) surveys ask respondents to quantify their overall or momentary
happiness or life-satisfaction, or pose similar questions about other aspects of respondents' …

1. Imagine you or someone you love begins to have an inexplicable array of symptoms. The
symptoms might include feeling dizzy, forgetting common words, or sleeping twice as much …

This paper presents a study of the mental distress caused by bereavement. The greatest
emotional losses are from the death of a spouse, the second greatest from the death of a …