J.D. TroutJ.D. Trout

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Chicago Tribune Op-Ed
Empathy in the Court!
May 5, 2009

J.D.'s Psychology Today Blog:
The Greater Good

Philosophy and Psychology of Decision-Making
PHIL 179 / PSYC 279
Fall 2010 Syllabus

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Social/Political Philosophy

The Language of Consent in Police Encounters. In Lawrence Solan and Peter Tiersma (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Language and Law. New York: Oxford University Press (with Janice Nadler as first author), in press.

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A Restriction Maybe, but is it Paternalism? Cognitive Bias and Choosing Governmental Decision Aids. NYU Journal of Law & Liberty, 2(3), 455-469. (2007)

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The Psychology of Discounting: A Policy of Balancing Biases. Public Affairs Quarterly, vol. 21(2), 201-220. (2007)

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Resurrecting “Death Taxes”: Inheritance, Redistribution, and the Science of Happiness (with Shahid Buttar as second author). Journal of Law and Politics, 16(4), 765-847. (2000)

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Paternalism and Cognitive Bias. Law and Philosophy 24(4, July), 393-434. (2005)

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About J.D.

J.D. Trout is a Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at Loyola University Chicago, and Adjunct Professor at the Parmly Sensory Sciences Institute. He received his PhD in Philosophy at Cornell University in 1988, and has also taught at Bryn Mawr College and Virginia Tech. His chief interests include the nature of scientific explanation, the psychology of human judgment, scientific realism and intellectual progress, and social/political issues bearing on well-being. He has also published work in epistemology and experimental and theoretical work in spoken language processing.