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Robert J. MacCoun is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the social sciences, with a focus on law, economics, and decision-making processes. The subfields they contribute to include Law, Economics and Econometrics, Artificial Intelligence, General Decision Sciences, and Safety Research.

Their recent scholarly output encompasses several published papers in diverse academic venues. Notable works include:

  • "Balancing compassion, accountability, and causal clarity" (2020), published in Addiction
  • "Standards of Proof: Theories and Evidence" (2022), published in SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Deborah Hensler and the Institute for Civil Justice Striving to Speak Truth to Power in the Tort Reform Debate" (2024), published in Journal of Tort Law
  • "Law and Psychology" (2025), published in SSRN Electronic Journal

Their research topics cover areas of decision-making and behavioral economics, law, economics, and judicial systems. Additional thematic interests include occupational and professional licensing regulation, criminal law and evidence, jury decision-making processes, legal processes and jurisprudence, and the ethics and social impacts of artificial intelligence.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Robert J. MacCoun include Doron Teichman, Erich Talley, Stefanie Egidy, Christoph Engel, and Krishna P. Gummadi.

The primary venues where they have published are the SSRN Electronic Journal, Addiction, Journal of Tort Law, and AI and Ethics.

Best Publications

  • 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.

    Robert MacCoun

  • Drug war heresies: learning from other vices, times and places.

    Robert J. MacCoun;Peter Reuter

  • Biases in the interpretation and use of research results.

    Robert J. MacCoun

  • Money from crime: A study of the economics of drug dealing in Washington, D.C

    Peter Reuter;Robert J. MacCoun;Patrick Murphy;Allan Abrahamse

  • In the Eye of the Beholder: Tort Litigants' Evaluations of Their Experiences in the Civil Justice System

    E. Allan Lind;Robert J. Maccoun;Patricia A. Ebener;William L. F. Felstiner

  • Asymmetric influence in mock jury deliberation: jurors' bias for leniency.

    Robert J. MacCoun;Norbert L. Kerr

  • VOICE, CONTROL, AND BELONGING: The Double-Edged Sword of Procedural Fairness

    Robert J. MacCoun

  • Drugs and the Law: A Psychological Analysis of Drug Prohibition

    Robert J. MacCoun

  • The Impact of Psychological Science on Policing in the United States Procedural Justice, Legitimacy, and Effective Law Enforcement

    Tom R. Tyler;Phillip Atiba Goff;Robert J. MacCoun

  • Does Social Cohesion Determine Motivation in Combat?: An Old Question with an Old Answer

    Robert J. MacCoun;Elizabeth Kier;Aaron Belkin

  • Interpreting Dutch cannabis policy: reasoning by analogy in the legalization debate.

    Robert J. MacCoun;Peter Reuter;Peter Reuter

  • Toward a psychology of harm reduction.

    Robert J. MacCoun

  • Evaluating alternative cannabis regimes

    Robert MacCOUN;Peter Reuter

  • Assessing alternative drug control regimes

    Robert J. MacCoun;Peter H. Reuter;Thomas Schelling

  • The effects of jury size and polling method on the process and product of jury deliberation.

    Norbert L. Kerr;Robert J. MacCoun

  • Experimental Research on Jury Decision Making

    Robert J. MacCoun

  • Differential treatment of corporate defendants by juries : An examination of the deep-pockets hypothesis

    Robert J. MacCoun

  • Altered State?: Assessing How Marijuana Legalization in California Could Influence Marijuana Consumption and Public Budgets

    Beau Kilmer;Jonathan P. Caulkins;Rosalie Liccardo Pacula;Robert J. MacCoun

  • The negative impacts of starting middle school in sixth grade

    Philip J. Cook;Robert MacCoun;Clara Muschkin;Jacob Vigdor

  • Research on Drugs-Crime Linkages: The Next Generation

    Robert J. MacCoun;Beau Kilmer;Peter Reuter

  • Cheap talk and credibility: The consequences of confidence and accuracy on advisor credibility and persuasiveness

    Sunita Sah;Sunita Sah;Don A. Moore;Robert J. MacCoun

  • Compensation for Accidental Injuries in the United States

    Deborah R. Hensler;M. Susan Marquis;Allan Abrahamse;Sandra H. Berry

  • Design considerations for legalizing cannabis: lessons inspired by analysis of California's Proposition 19.

    Jonathan P. Caulkins;Beau Kilmer;Robert J. MacCoun;Rosalie Liccardo Pacula

  • Drug War Heresies

    Robert J. MacCoun;Peter H. Reuter

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Reuter
Peter Reuter University of Maryland, College Park
Rosalie Liccardo Pacula
Rosalie Liccardo Pacula University of Southern California
Beau Kilmer
Beau Kilmer RAND Corporation
Jonathan P. Caulkins
Jonathan P. Caulkins Carnegie Mellon University
Norbert L. Kerr
Norbert L. Kerr Michigan State University
Jacob L. Vigdor
Jacob L. Vigdor University of Washington
Philip J. Cook
Philip J. Cook Duke University
Sanford L. Braver
Sanford L. Braver Arizona State University
Tom R. Tyler
Tom R. Tyler Yale University
Jamie F. Chriqui
Jamie F. Chriqui University of Illinois at Chicago

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