Bergman Blix Stina, Minissale Alessandra
Department of Sociology Uppsala University Box 624 Uppsala 751 26 Sweden.
J Law Soc. 2022 Jun;49(2):245-262. doi: 10.1111/jols.12355. Epub 2022 May 8.
In this conceptual article, we propose that legal professional decision makers' transformation of narratives in court (encoding) influences their emotional attunement to the stories at hand. First, we argue that the process of encoding is linked to the strict demand for dispassion in legal settings. Second, we introduce three techniques that regulate the emotional processes at play during the encoding of law narratives: , , and . Demarcation and fragmentation produce emotional distance from narratives and their associated emotions, while proximation refers to the deliberate calibration of emotional attunement to law stories to enable legal decision making. Demarcation and fragmentation are sustained by background emotions of ease and interest when stories align with legal requirements, versus disinterest and irritation when 'too many' details are introduced. Proximation is regulated through the epistemic emotions of doubt and certainty. By scrutinizing the subtle emotions involved in legal encoding, we problematize the ideal of judicial dispassion.
在这篇概念性文章中，我们提出法律专业决策者在法庭上对叙事的转换（编码）会影响他们对当前故事的情感共鸣。首先，我们认为编码过程与法律环境中对冷静的严格要求相关联。其次，我们介绍三种在法律叙事编码过程中调节情感过程的技巧：划分、碎片化和接近。划分和碎片化会产生与叙事及其相关情感的情感距离，而接近则指的是对法律故事的情感共鸣进行刻意校准，以实现法律决策。当故事符合法律要求时，划分和碎片化由轻松和兴趣等背景情绪维持，而当引入“过多”细节时，则由冷漠和恼怒等情绪维持。接近则通过怀疑和确定等认知情绪来调节。通过审视法律编码中涉及的微妙情感，我们对司法冷静的理想提出了质疑。
