Dan Simon

Felix Frankfurter Visiting Professor of Law

Research Interests

• Law and Psychology
• Criminal Law
• Wrongful convictions
• Legal psychology
• The psychology of judging

Appointments

• Professor of Law & Psychology, University of Southern California

Additional Information

Visiting Professor Simon will teach the module Law and Psychology: Wrongful Convictions in the Fall Term 2009.

Representative Publications

• "In Praise of Pedantic Eclecticism: Pitfalls and Opportunities in the Psychology of Judging," The Psychology of Judicial Decision Making, ed. David E. Klein & Gregory Mitchell (Oxford University Press, 2009 (forthcoming))
• "A Third View of the Black Box: Cognitive Coherence in Legal decision Making," 71 Univ. Chi. L. Rev. 511 (2004)
• "The Redux of cognitive consistency theories: Evidence judgments by constraint satisfaction," with Chadwick J. Snow & Stephen J. Read 86 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 814 (2004)
• "Bidirectional reasoning in decision making by constraint satisfaction," with Keith J. Holyoak 128 Journal of Experimental Psychology - General 3 (1999)