Deciding Compensation for Non-Economic Damages

侵权诉讼中的损害赔偿问题在许多方面存在着深刻的争议，但对损害赔偿诉讼中的决策性质却鲜有系统的认识。 本研究将启动一项关于人身伤害案件中人们如何进行补偿性损害赔偿的研究计划。 补偿性损害赔偿是对事故受害者的痛苦、苦难、生活乐趣的丧失、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受伤的看法，并将他们的看法转化为赔偿金额。 它将寻求为法官、原告和辩护律师以及担任民事陪审员的普通公民制定平行或对比的解释。 其首要目标是更全面地说明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伤害及其后果的样本，以绘制做出伤害决定的“伤害空间”，并确定人们用来组织他们对伤害的判断的核心伤害属性。 它将作为未来研究的基础，阐述将开发的损害决策模型。 侵权诉讼中的损害赔偿问题在许多方面存在着深刻的争议，但对损害赔偿诉讼中的判决性质却鲜有系统的认识。 本研究将启动一项关于人身伤害案件中人们如何进行补偿性损害赔偿的研究计划。 补偿性损害赔偿是对事故受害者的痛苦、苦难、生活乐趣的丧失、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受伤的看法，并将他们的看法转化为赔偿金额。 它将寻求为法官、原告和辩护律师以及担任民事陪审员的普通公民制定平行或对立的解释。 其首要目标是更全面地说明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. ****