Doctoral Dissertation Research: Personality Traits of U.S. Courts of Appeals Judges

个性是个人的一种独特特征，它定义和支配着他们生活中的日常行为，包括美国上诉法院的法官。这个项目将开发这些评委的个人个性特征，将他们映射到流行的五大特征，即开放、认真、外向、随和和神经质。该项目将纳入这些人格特征对美国上诉法院司法决策和行为的影响。该项目将收集1947-2020年间美国上诉法院所有可用法官的确认前书面材料和演讲，涵盖约700名法官。利用文本分析中的前沿发展，将产生对五大人格特质的估计。有了这些估计，这个项目将研究人格特征如何影响司法行为，从而影响联邦法律。该项目将为联邦法院法官生成个性特征估计，以及用于生成这些估计的基本文本文档语料库。项目数据将广泛传播给公众。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

A personality is a unique feature of individuals that defines and dictates everyday actions in their lives, including judges on the U.S Courts of Appeals. This project will develop individual personality profiles of these judges by mapping them onto the popular Big Five traits of openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. This project then will incorporate the influence of those personality traits on judicial decision making and behavior at the U.S. Courts of Appeals.This project will gather pre-confirmation writings and speeches for all available judges on the U.S. Courts of Appeals from 1947-2020, encompassing approximately 700 judges. Using cutting edge developments in textual analysis, estimates of the Big Five personality traits will be generated. With these estimates in hand, this project will examine how personality traits influence judicial behavior and, consequently, federal law. This project will generate personality trait estimates for federal court judges, as well as the underlying corpus of text documents used to generate them. Project data will be widely disseminated to the public.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.