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Academic articles

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  • Sommers, R.† & Weisburd, K.† (2024). Legally magic words: An empirical study of the accessibility of Fifth Amendment rights. Northwestern University Law Review, 119(3), 637-688. [link] [appendix]

  • Jordan, J. & Sommers, R. (2024) Sexual assault victims face a penalty for adjacent consent. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(34), e2403609121. [link]

  • Schlund, R., Sommers, R., & Bohns, V. K. (2024) Giving people the words to say no leads them to feel freer to say yes. Scientific Reports. [link]

  • Sommers, R. & Bohns, V. K. (2023). Consent searches and the underestimation of compliance: Robustness to type of search, consequences of search, and demographic sample. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 1–31. https://doi.org/10.1111/jels.12375. [link] [pre-print]

  • Korkmaz, A.,† Mann, T. C.,† Eibelman, J., Sommers, R., & Ferguson, M. J. (2023). Judging guilt: Implicit evaluations of defendants predict verdicts. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506231177328. [link] [pre-print]

  • Burke, S. E.† & Sommers, R.† (2022). Reducing prejudice through law: Evidence from experimental psychology. University of Chicago Law Review, 89, 1369-1417. [link]

  • Jordan, J.† & Sommers, R.† (2022). When does moral engagement risk triggering a hypocrisy penalty? Current Opinion in Psychology, 47, 101404. [link] [pre-print]

  • Demaree-Cotton, J.† & Sommers, R.† (2022). Autonomy and the folk concept of valid consent. Cognition, 224, 105065. [link] [pre-print] [JOTWELL]

  • Sommers, R. (2021). Experimental jurisprudence. Science, 373, 394-395. [link]

  • Sommers, R. (2021). Contract schemas. Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 17, 293-308. [link] [pre-print] [JOTWELL]

  • Nyarko, J., Goel, S., & Sommers, R. (2021). Breaking taboos in fair machine learning: An experimental study. Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO 2021). [link]

  • Greiner, D. J., Degnan, E. L., Ferriss, T., & Sommers, R. (2021). Using random assignment to measure court accessibility for low-income divorce-seekers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(14). [link]

  • Sommers, R. (2020). Commonsense consent. Yale Law Journal, 129(8), 2232-2324. [link]

  • Furth-Matzkin, M.† & Sommers, R.† (2020). Consumer psychology and the problem of fine-print fraud. Stanford Law Review, 72(3), 5o3-560. [link] [JOTWELL]

  • Sommers, R. & Bohns, V. K. (2019). The voluntariness of voluntary consent: Consent searches and the psychology of compliance. Yale Law Journal, 128(7), 1962-2033. [link]

  • Jordan, J. J., Sommers, R., Rand, D. G., & Bloom, P. (2017). Why do we hate hypocrites? Evidence for a theory of false signaling. Psychological Science, 28(3), 356-368. [link]

  • Sommers, R. (2016). Will putting cameras on police reduce polarization? Yale Law Journal, 125(5), 1304-1362. [link]

  • Sommers, R. (2015). The psychology of punishment and the puzzle of why tortfeasor death defeats liability for punitive damages. Yale Law Journal, 124(4), 1295-1307. [link]

  • Danis, M., Sommers, R., et al. (2014). Exploring public attitudes toward approaches to discussing costs in the clinical encounter. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 29(2), 1-7. [link]

  • Sommers, R., Goold, S. D., McGlynn, E. A., Pearson, S. D., & Danis, M. (2013). Focus groups highlight that many patients object to clinicians’ focusing on costs. Health Affairs, 32(2), 338-346. [link]

  • Sommers, R., & Miller, F. G. (2013). Forgoing debriefing in deceptive research: Is it ever ethical? Ethics & Behavior, 23(2), 98-116. [link]

  • Schwartz, B., & Sommers, R. (2013). Affective forecasting and well-being. Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Psychology. [link]

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