Lawyers, Judges & Semi-Rational Beasts: Cognitive Science and Persuasion

Lawyers, Judges & Semi-Rational Beasts surveys the cognitive science literature to distill the main findings that matter for persuasion -- particularly in the context of legal disputes. This book then assembles those findings into a coherent model of human decision-making, and identifies the foundational principles on which legal advocacy (or indeed, advocacy in most contexts) should be based.