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Sprawiedliwość i emocje w sądowym stosowaniu prawa
Justice and emotions in the judicial application of law

Author(s): Maciej Wojciechowski
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Organizational Psychology, Sociology of Law
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego

Summary/Abstract: The article outlines two dimensions of relations between justice and emotions. The first one relates to law application as well as the presence of emotions and the strategies of coping with them by the participants of this process. The second dimension concerns the genesis of emotions on a horizontal level where Justice may be a determinant of assessments formulated by the entities with respect to their mutual replacement relationships. The article focuses on the first dimension and presents the assumptions about emotions that directly or indirectly are accepted by authors who postulate to move away from the perception of emotions as irrational manifestations of human existence. Finally, the Author presents a postulated model of emotion management by judges.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: XXXV
  • Page Range: 519-532
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish