
Books Under Contract
The Mind of the Criminal: The Role of Social Cognition in Criminal Law (Cambridge University Press) ___ (Forthcoming, 2010). [Selected chapters available upon request]
Articles (Full text of most articles available at http://ssrn.com/author=924700)
Publications in Law Reviews and Legal Journals
An Attack on Self-Defense, 47 American Criminal Law Review 57 (2010). [pdf]
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1275858
The American Criminal Law Review has devoted a Special Section of an upcoming issue to this Article, with a Reply by Prof. Michael Corrado (U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill), my Rejoinder, and Prof. Corrado’s closing Comment.
Mistaking Mistaken Self-Defense as Justification: A
Reply to Professor Corrado, 47 American Criminal Law Review 97 (2010). [pdf]
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1559142
Adequate (Non)Provocation and Heat of Passion as Excuse Not Justification, 43 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 27 (2009). [pdf]
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1087862
The University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform devoted a Special Issue/Symposium to this Article, with response Essays by Professors Marcia Baron (U. Indiana-Bloomington), Gabriel “Jack” Chin (U. Arizona), Kyron Huigens (Cardozo), Stephen Morse (U. Pennsylvania), Samuel Pillsbury (Loyola-Los Angeles), Robert Weisberg (Stanford), and Peter Westen (U. Michigan), and my Rejoinder (see below).
On Passion’s Potential to Undermine Rationality: A Reply, 43 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 207 (2009). [pdf]
The Wrongfulness of Wrongly Interpreting Wrongfulness: Provocation Interpretational Bias and Heat of Passion Homicide, 12 New Criminal Law Review 69 (2009). [Refereed] [pdf]
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1087820
On the Boundaries of Culture as an Affirmative Defense, 51 Arizona Law Review 237 (2009). [Comment, co-authored with E. M. Held] [pdf]
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1376609
Reactive Cognition, Reactive Emotion: Toward a More Psychologically-Informed Understanding of Reactive Homicide, 14 Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 243 (2008). [Refereed] [pdf]
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1220677
Social Information Processing, Subtypes of Violence, and a Progressive Construction of Culpability and Punishment in Juvenile Justice, 31 International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 136 (2008). [Refereed] [pdf]
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1087845
Disentangling the Psychology and Law of Instrumental and Reactive Subtypes of Aggression, 13 Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 143 (2007). [Refereed] [pdf]
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1081005
Publications in Behavioral Science Journals (Psychology
of Delinquency/Criminal Violence)
Does response evaluation and decision (RED) mediate the relation between hostile attributional style and antisocial behavior in adolescence?, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology (in press). [Refereed, First Author; co-authored by M. Tanha, C. Yang, K. A. Dodge, J. E. Bates, & G. S. Pettit] [pdf]
Development of Response Evaluation and Decision (RED) and Antisocial Behavior in Childhood and Adolescence, 45 Development and Psychopathology 447 (2009). [Refereed, First Author; co-authored by C. Yang, K. A. Dodge, G. S. Pettit, & J. E. Bates] [pdf]
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1381018
Loneliness as a Partial Mediator of the Relation between Low Social Preference in Childhood and Anxious/Depressed Symptoms in Adolescence, 21 Developmental Psychology 479 (2009). [Refereed, First Author; co-authored by C. Yang, V. S. Burks, K. A. Dodge, J. M. Price, G. S. Pettit, & J. E. Bates] [pdf]
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1381019
“Social Information Processing and Aggressive Behavior: A
Transactional Perspective.” In A. J. Sameroff (Ed.), The Transactional Model
of Development: How Children and Contexts Shape Each Other (pp. 117-135).
Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. [Refereed, First Author;
co-authored by K. A. Dodge]
[pdf]
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1089922
On-Line Social Decision Making and Antisocial Behavior: Some Essential but Neglected Issues, 28 Clinical Psychology Review 17 (2008). [Refereed] [pdf]
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1081003
Testing an Individual Systems Model of Response
Evaluation and Decision (RED) and Antisocial Behavior across Adolescence,
79 Child Development 462 (2008). [Refereed/First Author; co-authored by
C. Yang, K. A. Dodge, J. E. Bates, & G. S. Pettit]
[pdf]
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1089923
Social Information Processing and Cardiac Predictors of
Antisocial Behavior in a Community Sample of Adolescents, 117 Journal
of Abnormal Psychology 253 (2008). [Refereed; co-authored with J.
C. Crozier, K. A. Dodge, J. E. Lansford, J. E., Bates, G. S. Pettit, & R. W.
Levenson]
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1448775
Toward a Conceptual Framework of Instrumental Antisocial Decision-Making and Behavior in Youth, 27 Clinical Psychology Review 655 (2007). [Refereed] [pdf]
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1089924
Applying Systems Principles to Models of Social
Information Processing and Aggressive Behavior in Youth, 11 Aggression
and Violent Behavior 64 (2006). [Refereed]
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1089925
Evaluative Behavioral Judgments and Instrumental Antisocial Behaviors in Children and Adolescents, 26 Clinical Psychology Review 956 (2006). [Refereed] [pdf]
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1089927
Real-Time Decision Making and Aggressive Behavior in
Youth: A Heuristic Model of Response Evaluation and Decision (RED), 32
Aggressive Behavior 604 (2006). [Refereed, First Author; co-authored by
K. A. Dodge]
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1089930
Peer Rejection and Social Information-Processing Factors in the Development of Aggressive Behavior Problems in Children, 74 Child Development 374 (2003). [Refereed; co-authored with K. A. Dodge, J. E. Lansford, V. S. Burks, J. E. Bates, G. S. Pettit, & J. M. Price] [pdf]
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1089928
Response Decision Processes and Externalizing Behavior Problems in Adolescents, 14 Development and Psychopathology 107 (2002). [Refereed, First Author; co-authored by V. S. Burks & K. A. Dodge] [pdf]
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1089931
Policy Reports
Brief Review of the Efficacy of Triple-P (Positive Parenting Program) for Consideration of Population-Level Dissemination in North Carolina. Report to the Duke Endowment, Durham, North Carolina (2007). [First Author; co-authored by K. A. Dodge]
Willie M.: Legacy of Legal, Social, and Policy Change on Behalf of Children. Report to the State of North Carolina, Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services (2000). [Co-authored by J. B. Kupersmidt & K. A. Dodge]
Articles Submitted or in Preparation
Upsetting the Reasonable Child (Standard), (Article Submitted/Under Review, 2009). [with J. Doucette & G. J. Chin]
Distinguishing Retribution and Revenge in Law and Psychology, (Article in Preparation, 2009). [with M. Tanha & N. Vidmar]
Killing as a Response: The Law and Psychology of Reactive Homicide, (Book in Preparation, 2009).
Mistaking reasonable reliance as mistake of law, and other mistakenness, (Article in Preparation, 2009). [with G. J. Chin & M. Gilkey]
An Individual Systems Model of Aggressogenic Personality Factors: The Intersection of Affect and Social Cognition (Article Submitted/Under Review, 2009). [with G. V. Caprara, R. Fida, M. Paciello, & K. A. Dodge]
Individual Differences in Personality Traits and Social Cognitive Mechanisms Conducive to Violence from Adolescence to Adulthood (Article Submitted/Under Review, 2009). [with G. V. Caprara, G. Alessandri, M. Paciello, & M. G. Gerbino]
* Does Response Evaluation and Decision (RED) Mediate the Relation Between Hostile Attributional Style and Antisocial Behavior in Adolescence? (Article Submitted/Under Review, 2009). [First Author, with M. Tanha, C. Yang, K. A. Dodge, J. E. Bates, & G. S. Pettit]
* Social Information Processing and Antisocial Behavior: New Developments in Developmental Research (Article in Preparation, 2009).
* Manuscripts invited by the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology Special Section on Social Cognition and Aggression, dedicated to my Symposium on social information processing and antisocial conduct at the 20th biennial meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development, Würzburg, Germany, July, 2008.