combating biased decisionmaking & promoting justice & equal treatment

by sunita sah, david tannenbaum, hayley cleary, yuval feldman, jack glaser, amy lerman, robert maccoun, edward maguire, paul slovic, barbara spellman, cassia spohn, christopher winship
May 24, 2017

Author Affiliation

Sah, Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University; Tannenbaum, Eccles School of Business, University of Utah; Cleary, L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs, Virginia Commonwealth University; Feldman, Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan University; Glaser, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley; Lerman, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley; MacCoun, Stanford Law School; Maguire, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Arizona State University; Slovic, Department of Psychology, University of Oregon; Spellman, University of Virginia Law School; Spohn, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Arizona State University; Winship, Department of Sociology, Harvard University. Corresponding author’s email: [email protected]

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