Robert MacCoun

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Robert MacCoun is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, Michigan State University, Kalamazoo College

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According to Wikipedia, Robert J. MacCoun is the James and Patricia Kowal Professor of Law at Stanford Law School., a Professor by courtesy in Stanford's Psychology Department, and a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute. Trained as a social psychologist, he has published numerous studies on psychoactive drug use and policy, individual and group decision-making, distributive and procedural justice, social influence processes, and bias in the use and interpretation of research evidence by scientists, journalists and citizens.

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Experimental and Quasi‐Experimental Designs for Generalized Causal Inference, by William R. Shadish, Thomas D. Cook, and Donald T. Campbell. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001, 623 pp., $65.56. (2003) (730)
Bias in judgment: Comparing individuals and groups. (1996) (437)
Biases in the interpretation and use of research results. (1998) (337)
Drug War Heresies (2001) (282)
Voice, Control, and Belonging: The Double-Edged Sword of Procedural Fairness (2005) (254)
Asymmetric influence in mock jury deliberation: jurors' bias for leniency. (1988) (230)
Drugs and the law: a psychological analysis of drug prohibition. (1993) (222)
Money from Crime: A Study of the Economics of Drug Dealing in Washington, D.C. (1990) (209)
The Impact of Psychological Science on Policing in the United States (2015) (198)
Drug War Heresies : Learning from Other Vices , Times , and Places (2003) (188)
Interpreting Dutch cannabis policy: reasoning by analogy in the legalization debate. (1997) (168)
Toward a psychology of harm reduction. (1998) (165)
In the Eye of the Beholder: Tort Litigants' Evaluations of Their Experiences in the Civil Justice System (1990) (159)
Blind analysis: Hide results to seek the truth (2015) (157)
Evaluating alternative cannabis regimes (2001) (154)
Does Social Cohesion Determine Motivation in Combat? (2006) (151)
Assessing alternative drug control regimes. (1996) (137)
Calibration Trumps Confidence as a Basis for Witness Credibility (2006) (136)
Experimental Research on Jury Decision-Making (1989) (126)
Compensation for Accidental Injuries in the United States (1994) (117)
Altered State?: Assessing How Marijuana Legalization in California Could Influence Marijuana Consumption and Public Budgets (2010) (115)
The effects of jury size and polling method on the process and product of jury deliberation. (1985) (111)
The benefits of knowing what you know (and what you don’t): How calibration affects credibility (2008) (106)
The negative impacts of starting middle school in sixth grade (2008) (98)
Research on Drugs-Crime Linkages: The Next Generation (2003) (94)
Considering Marijuana Legalization: Insights for Vermont and Other Jurisdictions (2015) (93)
Are the Wages of Sin $30 an Hour? Economic Aspects of Street-Level Drug Dealing (1992) (92)
Cheap talk and credibility: The consequences of confidence and accuracy on advisor credibility and persuasiveness (2013) (90)
What can we learn from the Dutch cannabis coffeeshop system? (2011) (89)
Half-baked--the retail promotion of marijuana edibles. (2015) (88)
Design considerations for legalizing cannabis: lessons inspired by analysis of California's Proposition 19. (2012) (81)
What does it mean to decriminalize marijuana? A cross-national empirical examination. (2004) (76)
Differential treatment of corporate defendants by juries : An examination of the deep-pockets hypothesis (1996) (75)
Do Citizens Know Whether Their State Has Decriminalized Marijuana? Assessing the Perceptual Component of Deterrence Theory (2009) (73)
Limited Rationality and the Limits of Supply Reduction (2003) (68)
Estimating liability risks with the media as your guide: A content analysis of media coverage of tort litigation (1996) (64)
Before the Grand Opening: Measuring Washington State’s Marijuana Market in the Last Year Before Legalized Commercial Sales (2013) (64)
Free press and fair trial: The role of behavioral research (2015) (60)
The Emergence of Extralegal BIAS During Jury Deliberation (1990) (59)
The deterrent effects of Australian street-level drug law enforcement on illicit drug offending at outdoor music festivals. (2017) (59)
The Burden of Social Proof: Shared Thresholds and Social Influence (2011) (58)
How Medical Marijuana Smoothed the Transition to Marijuana Legalization in the United States. (2017) (56)
Citizens' Perceptions of Ideological Bias in Research on Public Policy Controversies (2009) (56)
Role expectations in social dilemmas. Sex roles and task motivation in groups. (1985) (53)
Alternative Adjudication: An Evaluation of the New Jersey Automobile Arbitration Program (1988) (50)
The basis of citizens' perceptions of the criminal jury: Procedural fairness, accuracy, and efficiency. (1988) (50)
Goal Conflict in Juror Assessments of Compensatory and Punitive Damages (1999) (47)
Money from Crime (1990) (47)
Sexual Orientation and U.S. Military Personnel Policy: An Update of RAND's 1993 Study (2010) (47)
Sexual Orientation and U.S. Military Personnel Policy: Options and Assessment (1992) (45)
Assessing Drug Prohibition and its Alternatives: A Guide for Agnostics (2011) (43)
The Perception of Justice: Tort Litigants' Views of Trial, Court-Annexed Arbitration, and Judicial Settlement Conferences (1988) (41)
Symbolism and Incommensurability in Civil Sanctioning: Decision Makers as Goal Managers (2003) (39)
Alternative Dispute Resolution in Trial and Appellate Courts (1992) (35)
Understanding gender differences in distributive and procedural justice (1997) (32)
Unit Cohesion and Military Performance (32)
Options and Issues Regarding Marijuana Legalization (2015) (32)
Competing accounts of the gateway effect: the field thins, but still no clear winner. (2006) (30)
On the ubiquity of drug selling among youthful offenders in Washington, D.C., 1985–1991: Age, period, or cohort effect? (1995) (29)
“When Are N Heads Better (or Worse) Than One?”: Biased Judgment in Individuals Versus Groups (1996) (29)
Getting Inside the Black Box: Toward A Better Understanding of Civil Jury Behavior (1987) (29)
Understanding gender differences in distributive and procedural justice (1996) (25)
Gaining and losing social support: Momentum in decision-making groups (1987) (23)
Moral Outrage and Opposition to Harm Reduction (2013) (23)
A Content Analysis of the Drug Legalization Debate (1993) (23)
Conflicts of Interest in Public Policy Research (2004) (23)
Suspicion in the psychological laboratory: Kelman's prophecy revisited. (1987) (22)
Should Sixth Grade Be in Elementary or Middle School? An Analysis of Grade Configuration and Student Behavior (2006) (22)
on Jury Decision-Making (2015) (22)
Sex Composition of Groups and Member Motivation II. Effects of Relative Task Ability. (1984) (20)
Effects of victim attractiveness, care and disfigurement on the judgements of American and British mock jurors* (1985) (20)
Estimating the Non-Price Effects of Legalization on Cannabis Consumption (2010) (20)
Is the leniency asymmetry really dead? Misinterpreting asymmetry effects in criminal jury deliberation (2012) (20)
Blind Analysis as a Correction for Confirmatory Bias in Physics and in Psychology (2015) (20)
Sexual Orientation and U.S. Military Personnel Policy (2010) (19)
PREFACE The Varieties of Drug Control at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century (2002) (19)
Intuitive Lawmaking: The Example of Child Support (2006) (18)
Media Reporting of Jury Verdicts: Is the Tail (of the Distribution) Wagging the Dog (2005) (18)
Behind Schedule - Reconciling Federal and State Marijuana Policy. (2018) (17)
Distinguishing Spurious and Real Peer Effects: Evidence from Artificial Societies, Small-Group Experiments, and Real Schoolyards (2007) (17)
The Costs and Benefits of Letting Juries Punish Corporations: Comment on Viscusi (2000) (15)
Street Drug Markets in Inner-City Neighborhoods (2004) (14)
Unintended Consequences of Court Arbitration: A Cautionary Tale From New Jersey (1991) (14)
The implicit rules of evidence-based drug policy: a U.S. perspective. (2008) (14)
Drug Policies and Problems: The Promise and Pitfalls of Cross-National Comparison (1993) (14)
Group Categorization and Distributive Justice Decisions (1986) (13)
The Puzzling Unidimensionality of DSM-5 Substance Use Disorder Diagnoses (2013) (13)
Is the Addiction Concept Useful for Drug Policy (2003) (13)
Psychological Constraints on Transparency in Legal and Government Decision Making (2006) (13)
Street Drug Markets in Inner-City Neighborhoods: Matching Policy to Reality (2004) (13)
Considering Marijuana Legalization (2015) (12)
Some Well-Aged Wines for the 'New Norm' Bottles , Implications of Social Psychology to Law and Economics (2003) (12)
Brains, environments, and policy responses to addiction (2017) (12)
Lessons from the absence of harm reduction in American drug policy (1995) (11)
The basis of citizen's perceptions of the criminal jury (1988) (11)
Comparing Legal Factfinders: Real and Mock, Amateur and Professional (2004) (10)
The Perception of Justice (1989) (10)
American distortion of Dutch drug statistics (2001) (10)
Comparing Western European and North American Drug Policies (1993) (10)
Do Citizens Know Whether Their State Has Decriminalized Marijuana? A Test of the Perceptual Assumption in Deterrence Theory (2008) (10)
Multiple Constraint Satisfaction in Judging (2008) (9)
Examining the Behavioral Assumptions of the National Drug Control Strategy (1996) (9)
The Paths Not (Yet) Taken: Lower Risk Alternatives to Full-Market Legalization of Cannabis (2013) (9)
Judgments, Decisions, and Public Policy: Comparing Micro and Macro Rationality (2001) (9)
Testing Drugs Versus Testing For Drug Use: Private Risk Management in the Shadow of the Criminal Law (2007) (7)
Cannabis regimes – a response (2001) (7)
Stereotypes and Nonstereotypic Judgments (1987) (7)
Epistemological Dilemmas in the Assessment of Legal Decision Making (1999) (6)
How Might Marijuana Legalization in California Affect Public Budgets and Marijuana Consumption (2010) (6)
Public Intuitions about Fair Child Support Allocations: Converging Evidence for a 'Fair Shares' Rule (2013) (6)
Harm reduction is a good label for a criterion all drug programs should meet. (2009) (6)
The implicit rules of evidence-based policy analysis, updated. (2010) (6)
Abstract Principles and Concrete Cases in Intuitive Lawmaking (2011) (5)
Center for the Study of Law and Society Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program The Contracting State and Its Courts (2004) (5)
What Can We Learn from the Dutch Cannabis Coffeeshop Experience (2010) (5)
Converting Sentiments to Dollars: Scaling and Incommensurability Problems in the Evaluation of Child Support Payments (2008) (5)
Panel One: What Empirical Research Tells Us, and What We Need to Know About Juries and the Quest for Impartiality (1991) (5)
The Marijuana Legalization Debate (2015) (5)
Research on Drugs-Crime Linkages (2003) (5)
Harm reduction and social policy: should addicts be paid? (1996) (5)
The Epistemic Contract: Fostering an Appropriate Level of Public Trust in Experts. (2015) (4)
1 HEROIN MAINTENANCE : IS A U . S . EXPERIMENT NEEDED ? (2002) (4)
Blinding to Remove Biases in Science and Society (2021) (4)
Anticipating Unintended Consequences of Vaccine-Like Immunotherapies for Addictive Drug Use (2004) (4)
Interpreting Dutch Cannabis Policy (1997) (4)
Population thinking as an adjunct to the clinical trial perspective. (2004) (3)
Is melioration the addiction theory of choice? (1996) (3)
Balancing Evidence and Norms in Cultural Evolution (2015) (3)
WHAT HARM REDUCTION IS AND ISN'T (1999) (3)
Drug War Heresies: Learning from European Experiences (2001) (3)
Blaming Others to a Fault (1993) (3)
Combating biased decisionmaking & promoting justice & equal treatment (2017) (3)
Computational Models of Social Influence and Collective Behavior (2015) (3)
Abstract principles and concrete cases in intuitive lawmaking. (2012) (3)
Design Considerations for Legalizing Cannabis (2012) (2)
Compensation for Accidental Injuries: Research Design and Methods (1991) (2)
Drug Policies and Problems (1993) (2)
Changing the Policy Toward Homosexuals in the U . S . Military (2010) (2)
Enhancing research credibility when replication is not feasible (2018) (2)
Cannabis use and other illicit drug use : testing the cannabis gateway hypothesis. Commentary (2006) (2)
Do Citizens Accurately Perceive Marijuana Sanction Risks? A Test of a Critial Assumption in Deterrence Theory and the Decriminalization Debate (2008) (2)
Alternative maps of the world of collective behaviors (2014) (2)
Phantom risk: Scientific inference and the law, edited by Kenneth R. Foster, David E. Bernstein, and Peter W. Huber. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993, 457 pp., NPA (1995) (2)
Philosophical underpinnings (2019) (1)
Changing the Policy Toward Homosexuals in the U.S. Military (2000) (1)
Comment on "Rethinking America's Illegal Drug Policy" (2010) (1)
BALANCING COMPASSION, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND CAUSAL CLARITY. (2020) (1)
Commentary on Niesink et al. (2015): Interpreting trends in tetrahydrocannabinol potency--three stories, one of which may be true. (2015) (1)
Harm Reduction and Social Policy (1997) (1)
p-Hacking: A Strategic Analysis (2019) (1)
Compensation for Accidental Injuries (1991) (1)
New evidence on the tenuous state of evidence-based drug policy. (2014) (1)
Multiple gateways. (2018) (1)
Legal Issues: Public Opinion (2001) (1)
What We Do and Don’t Know About the Likely Effects of Decriminalization and Legalization (1999) (1)
The New Jersey Automobile Arbitration Program (1988) (1)
Drug War Heresies: Harm Reduction in Europe (2001) (1)
Design Considerations for Legalizing Marijuana (2012) (1)
Obstacles to Moving Beyond the Drug War (2001) (0)
The Costs and Benefits of Letting Juries Punish Corporations: Comment on (2016) (0)
The Puzzling Unidimensionality of the DSM Substance Use Diagnoses (2013) (0)
Before the Grand Opening (2013) (0)
Should California Drop Criminal Penalties for Drug Possession (2017) (0)
Integrating Three Theoretical Traditions in Distributive Justice and Social Exchange Research (2019) (0)
The Integrated Graduate Education and Training Program in Politics, Economics, Psychology and Public Policy (2005) (0)
Golden Bear Omnibus Survey 2005 (2014) (0)
Drug War Heresies: Other Substances: Alcohol and Cigarettes (2001) (0)
What Can We Learn from the Dutch Cannabis Coffeeshop System (2011) (0)
Drug Use and Drug Policy in a Prohibition Regime (2008) (0)
Drug War Heresies: Philosophical Underpinnings (2001) (0)
Intuitive Lawmaking II: The Relationship between Citizens' Endorsement of Principles and Their Resolution of Cases (2009) (0)
Response to commentaries. (2012) (0)
Golden Bear Omnibus Survey 2003 (2014) (0)
Introduction (2018) (0)
Cannabis Policies in The Netherlands (2001) (0)
Social Propensities (2017) (0)
Drug Prohibition: American Style (2001) (0)
Bridging the gap between science and drug policy: From “what” and “how” to “whom” and “when” (2008) (0)
Drug Use and Drug Policy in a Prohibition Regime - eScholarship (2008) (0)
for the Study Society Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program Some Well-Aged Wines for the "New Norms" Bottles: Implications of Social Psychology for Law and Economics (2003) (0)
Moral Outrage and Opposition to Harm Reduction (2012) (0)
Institutions Promoting or Countering Deliberate Ignorance (2021) (0)
U.S. Experience with Legal Cocaine and Heroin (2001) (0)
Sexual Orientation and U.S. Personnel Policy Revisited (2010) (0)
Drug War Heresies: Bibliography (2001) (0)
Experimental Research on Jury Decision-Making Author ( s ) : (2008) (0)
Comment: Breaking the Impasse in American Drug Policy (2018) (0)
The Marijuana Legalization Debate: Insights for Vermont (2015) (0)
How Does Prohibition Affect Drug Use (2001) (0)
Standards of Proof: Theories and Evidence (2022) (0)
Author's reply (2001) (0)
Drug War Heresies: Projecting the Consequences of Alternative Regimes (2001) (0)
UNCONVINCED BUT PERSUADED: HOW CONFIDENT ADVISORS INFLUENCE YOU (2011) (0)
Acknowledgments (2013) (0)
Preface and Overview (2001) (0)
RAND Graduate School Commencement Exercises (1993) (0)
Transcription of Keynote Speakers' Address (2009) (0)
The Relativity of Judgment as a Challenge for Behavioral Law and Economics (2006) (0)
Litigant Perceptions of Legal Procedures (1989) (0)
From the American Project , and Related Work Child Support : Original Empirical Work (2014) (0)
Sixth Graders in Middle School Behave Worse than Sixth Graders in Elementary School (2006) (0)
Drug War Heresies: Other Vices: Prostitution and Gambling (2001) (0)
Drug War Heresies: Summary of the Evidence and a Framework for Assessment (2001) (0)
1-1-1996 Differential Treatment of Corporate Defendants by Juries : An Examination of the Deep-Pocket Hypothesis (2018) (0)
Drug War Heresies: How Does Prohibition Affect Drug Harms? (2001) (0)
Cheap talk and credibility: The consequences of conﬁdence and accuracy on advisor credibility and persuasiveness Organizational Decision (2013) (0)
Arguing over Algorithms (2020) (0)
Marijuana Legalization (or Drug Decriminalization) in the United States (2015) (0)
Accidental Injury Compensation in the United States (1991) (0)

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