In the last decade, the study of social norms has become a major focus of theory and research in law and economics. Surprisingly, this "new norms" literature has almost completely ignored decades of systematic theory, experimentation, and field research on normative processes by social...

This chapter provides an overview of computational modeling of conformity, group deliberation, and social diffusion processes, with an emphasis on social psychological perspectives rather than the kinds of structural and institutional issues modeled in political science and sociology. The...

I review alternative normative and descriptive theories of legal standards of proof, as well as empirical evidence on how ordinary citizens interpret and apply these standards. Among the approaches I survey are decision theoretic accounts, the story model, constraint satisfaction models, the...