Deciding Compensation for Non-Economic Damages

9422789 Saks关于侵权诉讼中损害赔偿的诸多方面存在着深刻的争议，但对损害赔偿诉讼决策的性质却缺乏系统的认识。这项研究将启动一个关于人们如何在人身伤害案件中作出补偿性损害赔偿的研究项目。补偿性损害赔偿是赔偿事故受害者的痛苦、痛苦、失去生活乐趣、毁容、残疾和类似损失的赔偿。这项研究将试图发现人们如何组织他们对事故受害者伤害的看法，并将他们的看法转化为赔偿金额。它将寻求对法官、原告和辩护律师、作为民事陪审员的普通市民进行平行或对比的解释。其首要目标是更全面地解释和更准确地预测薪酬决策。这项研究将向法官、律师和公民提供各种各样的伤害及其后果的样本，努力绘制出做出伤害决定的“伤害空间”，并确定人们用来组织对伤害的判断的核心伤害属性。它将作为未来研究的基础，详细阐述将开发的损害决策模型。%%%%关于侵权诉讼中损害赔偿的诸多方面存在着深刻的争议，但对损害赔偿诉讼决策的性质却缺乏系统的认识。这项研究将启动一个关于人们如何在人身伤害案件中作出补偿性损害赔偿的研究项目。补偿性损害赔偿是赔偿事故受害者的痛苦、痛苦、失去生活乐趣、毁容、残疾和类似损失的赔偿。这项研究将试图发现人们如何组织他们对事故受害者伤害的看法，并将他们的看法转化为赔偿金额。将对法官、原告和辩护律师、作为民事陪审员的普通市民进行平行或对比的解释。其首要目标是更全面地解释和更准确地预测薪酬决策。* * * *

9422789 Saks Profound controversy exists about many aspects of damages in tort litigation, but there is very little systematic knowledge about the nature of decision making in litigation for damages. This research will initiate a program of study on how people make awards of compensatory damages in personal injury cases. Compensatory damages are awards to compensate accident victims for their pain, suffering, loss of enjoyment of life, disfigurement, disability, and similar losses. The research will seek to discover how people organize their perceptions of an accident victim's injury and translate their perceptions into compensation amounts. It will seek to develop parallel or contrasting explanations for judges, plaintiff and defense lawyers, and ordinary citizens, who serve as civil jurors. Its overriding goal is to more fully account for and more accurately predict compensation decisions. The study to be conducted presents to samples of judges, attorneys, and citizens a wide variety of injuries and their consequences in an effort to map the "injury space" within which damage decisions are made and to identify the core injury attributes people use to organize their judgments about injuries. It will serve as a foundation for future research elaborating the model of damage decision making that will be developed. %%%% Profound controversy exists about many aspects of damages in tort litigation, but there is very little systematic knowledge about the nature of decision making in litigation for damages. This research will initiate a program of study on how people make awards of compensatory damages in personal injury cases. Compensatory damages are awards to compensate accident victims for their pain, suffering, loss of enjoyment of life, disfigurement, disability, and similar losses. The research will seek to discover how people organize their perceptions of an accident victim's injury and translate their perceptions into compensation amounts. It will seek to develop parallel or con trasting explanations for judges, plaintiff and defense lawyers, and ordinary citizens, who serve as civil jurors. Its overriding goal is to more fully account for and more accurately predict compensation decisions. ****