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Tess Wilkinson-Ryan

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http://www.law.upenn.edu/cf/faculty/twilkins/

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Social Sciences, Professional & Technical

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Tess Wilkinson-Ryan studies the role of moral judgment in legal decision-making. She uses experimental methods from psychology and behavioral economics to ask how people draw on their moral intuitions to motivate or inform legal choices. Her research focuses in particular on private contracts and negotiations. She has argued that most people think that breaking a promise is immoral, and that a breach of contract is a kind of broken promise. People are uncomfortable with the prospect of breaking a promise, and resistant to profiting from what they perceive to be a moral violation. This kind of finding has implications for a variety of promissory transactions, from mortgage contracts to commercial agreements to prenups. The broad goal of her ...more

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	Fool Proof: How Fear of Playing the Sucker Shapes Our Selves and the Social Order―and What We Can Do About It 3.74 avg rating — 185 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fool Proof: How Fear of Playing the Sucker Shapes Our Selves and the Social Order—and What We Can Do About It 3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Moral judgment and moral heuristics in breach of contract. 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fool Proof: How Fear of Playing the Sucker Shapes Our Selves and the Social Order - and What We Can Do About It 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Contract and Related Obligation: Theory, Doctrine, and Practice (American Casebook Series) by Robert Summers, Robert Hillman, David Hoffman (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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