Mind and Law: A Socio-Cognitive Perspective on Communication, Emotion, and Conflict Resolution in Legal Contexts

This book offers a wide-ranging exploration of the social and psychological forces that shape human judgment, communication, and conflict resolution, with a particular focus on legal and dispute-resolution contexts.Bridging cognitive psychology, sociology of law, and legal psychology, it provides readers with a coherent framework for understanding how people think, feel, decide, and act when stakes are high. The volume opens with a solid grounding in cognitive psychology, introducing key concepts such as information processing, attention, memory, and perception.These foundational mechanisms are essential for understanding how individuals construct meaning from complex and often ambiguous situations.The discussion then expands to the emotional sphere, examining basic and social emotions, emotional intelligence, and strategies of emotion regulation, highlighting the central role emotions play in reasoning and behavior. Subsequent chapters address conflicts and disputes in their many form