Product Description: This volume provides an overview of recent research on the nature, causes, and consequences of cognitive consistency. In 21 chapters, leading scholars address the pivotal role of consistency principles at various levels of social information processing, ranging from micro-level to macro-level processes...read more

Product Description: Court procedures matter. But why do they matter, and how? There is hardly another context in which decision making is so densely embedded in a host of formal and informal institutions. Courts do not themselves have the right of initiative...read more

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