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

人格是个人的一个独特特征，它定义并支配着他们生活中的日常行为，包括美国上诉法院的法官。该项目将通过将这些法官映射到流行的大五特征（开放性，外向性，宜人性和神经质）来开发这些法官的个人人格特征。该项目将收集1947年至2020年期间美国上诉法院所有可用法官的确认前写作和演讲，其中包括大约700名法官。使用文本分析的最新发展，将产生对大五人格特质的估计。有了这些估计，这个项目将研究人格特质如何影响司法行为，从而影响联邦法律。该项目将为联邦法院法官生成人格特质评估，以及用于生成这些评估的文本文档的基础语料库。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值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.