Insights from psychology have recently found their way into tort law, suggesting that both victims and juries suffer from hedonic misperceptions which are attributed to the psychological phenomena of hedonic adaptation neglect and the focusing illusion, causing victims to exaggerate their...

This paper examines trends in court decisions involving hedonic damages as a follow up to an earlier survey of cases described by Ireland, Johnson and Taylor in a 1997 article. The trend continues to be against admissibility of expert economic testimony on hedonic damages or other methods for...