Feigenson Neal, Park Jaihyun
Quinnipiac University, Hamden, Connecticut, USA.
Law Hum Behav. 2006 Apr;30(2):143-61. doi: 10.1007/s10979-006-9026-z.
Research on the effects of emotions and moods on judgments of legal responsibility and blame is reviewed. Emotions and moods may influence decision makers in 3 ways: by affecting their information processing strategies, by inclining their judgments in the direction of the valence of the emotion or mood, and/or by providing informational cues to the proper decision. A model is proposed that incorporates these effects and further distinguishes among various affective influences in terms of whether the affect is provoked by a source integral or incidental to the judgment task, and whether it affects judgment directly (e.g., by providing an informational cue to judgment) or indirectly (e.g., by affecting construal of judgment target features, which in turn affects the judgment). Legal decision makers' abilities to correct for any affective influences they perceive to be undesirable and normative implications for legal theory and practice are briefly discussed.
本文综述了关于情绪和心境对法律责任与责备判断之影响的研究。情绪和心境可能通过三种方式影响决策者：一是影响其信息处理策略，二是使他们的判断倾向于情绪或心境的效价方向，三是和/或为正确决策提供信息线索。本文提出了一个模型，该模型纳入了这些影响，并根据情感是由判断任务中不可或缺的还是附带的来源引发，以及它是直接影响判断（例如，通过为判断提供信息线索）还是间接影响判断（例如，通过影响对判断目标特征的解释，进而影响判断），进一步区分了各种情感影响。本文还简要讨论了法律决策者纠正他们认为不良的任何情感影响的能力以及对法律理论和实践的规范意义。
