Janice Nadler

About

Janice Nadler is the Nathaniel L. Nathanson Professor of Law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. Her primary research interests lie at the intersection of law and psychology, focusing on how legal processes influence behavior and judgments. Her work has been published in leading journals such as the Cornell Law Review, the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Law & Human Behavior, and Law & Society Review. She has conducted empirical studies on topics including the impact of victim information on criminal responsibility judgments, the influence of law on behavior beyond sanctions, and how communication mediums affect negotiations. Current projects include examining the influence of moral character on criminal blame judgments and exploring public opinion regarding health and environmental risks associated with the food system. Nadler joined Northwestern faculty as an Assistant Professor in 2000 and is also a Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation, a prominent research institute dedicated to the empirical and interdisciplinary study of law.

Research topics

• Medicine
• Social Science
• Psychiatry
• Economics
• Environmental health
• Public economics
• Ecology
• Biology
• Psychology

Selected publications

• Reducing meat consumption by appealing to animal welfare: protocol for a meta-analysis and theoretical review

  Systematic Reviews · 2020 · 39 citations

  BACKGROUND: Reducing meat consumption may improve human health, curb environmental damage and greenhouse gas emissions, and limit the large-scale suffering of animals raised in factory farms. Previous work has begun to develop interventions to reduce individual meat consumption, often by appealing directly to individual health motivations. However, research on nutritional behavior change suggests that interventions additionally linking behavior to ethical values, identity formation, and existing…

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• Regulation, Public Attitudes, and Private Governance

  Journal of Empirical Legal Studies · 2019-01-09 · 11 citations

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  Corporate adoption of politically contestable practices (e.g., sustainable forestry; cage‐free eggs) is increasingly common. In two studies, we empirically explore the relationship between corporate practices and subsequent public support for legislation mandating such practices. One hypothesis is that public support for new legislation decreases following corporate action because the private sector is perceived to be adequately managing the problem, thus obviating the need for a legislative res…

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• The Social Psychology of Property: Looking Beyond Market Exchange

  Annual Review of Law and Social Science · 2018-05-12 · 6 citations

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  Our social norms and moral values shape our beliefs about the propriety of different types of market exchanges. This review considers social and moral influences on beliefs about property and the consequences of these beliefs for the legal regulation of property. The focus is mainly on empirical evidence from social psychology, with additions from related areas like cognitive psychology, behavioral economics, and other social sciences. After briefly reviewing empirical findings on perceptions of…

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• Emotional evidence in court

  Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks · 2021-04-26 · 5 citations

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  Judges frequently instruct jurors to decide cases based on evidence, rather than emotion. Emotion is often viewed as, at best extraneous to legal decision-making, and at worst detrimental to legal decision-making. This chapter takes a more nuanced approach to describing the impact of emotional evidence on jury decision-making. We review current experimental methodologies and the resulting research findings regarding jurors’ emotional reaction to evidence, to extralegal factors, and to the result…

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• Expressive law and social norms

  Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks · 2024-08-15 · 2 citations

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Recent grants

• Expressive Law in Mixed Motive Games

  NSF · $85k · 2004–2011

Frequent coauthors

• Richard H. McAdams

  University of Chicago

  21 shared

• Maya B. Mathur

  Stanford University

  16 shared

• Paul Bain

  Boston Public Library

  13 shared

• Thomas N. Robinson

  University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

  11 shared

• Christopher D. Gardner

  Stanford University

  9 shared

• Kenworthey Bilz

  9 shared

• David B. Reichling

  University of California, San Francisco

  9 shared

• Jacob Peacock

  Stanford University

  9 shared

Labs

• Northwestern Pritzker School of Law Faculty & ResearchPI

Awards & honors

• Nathaniel L. Nathanson Professor of Law

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