In two experiments, participants judged the fairness of different distributions of wealth in hypothetical societies. In the first study, the level of meritocracy in the hypothetical societies and the frame of reference from which participants' judged alternative distributions of wealth...

Behavioral Law and Economics' effort to replace standard microeconomic assumptions with more realistic, yet still simple assumptions — without jettisoning a basic economic orientation toward behavior that emphasizes prices and utility maximization — has led to the acceptance of an...

This chapter considers the psychological, methodological, and normative paths taken by behavioral law and economics ("BLE") and alternative paths that BLE might have taken, and might still take. The counterfactual BLE imagined here stresses the B in BLE, with behavioral approaches to legal...

This study compared two forms of accountability that can be used to promote diversity and fairness in personnel selections: identity-conscious accountability (holding decision makers accountable for which groups are selected) versus identity-blind accountability (holding decision makers...