Ryan Winter conducts research on the relationship
between psychology and legal issues, focusing in part on jury decision-making.
He has investigated jurors’ understanding of legal instructions in death penalty
trials, jurors’ use of inadmissible evidence, and how jurors make liability and
damage award decisions in civil cases. In addition, he focuses on legal
decisions regarding sexual harassment and bankruptcy. He teaches courses in
social psychology, psychology and the legal system, and social cognition. He
received his Ph.D. from the City University of New York and his Masters of Legal
Studies degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Representative
Publications
Greene, E., Woody, W. D., & Winter, R. (2000).
Compensating plaintiffs and punishing defendants: Is bifurcation necessary?
Law and Human Behavior, 24, 187-205.
Wiener, R. L., Rogers, M., Winter, R., Hurt, L., Hackney, A., & Kadela, K.,
et al. (2004). Guided jury discretion in capital murder cases: The role of
declarative and procedural knowledge. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law,
10, 516-576.
Wiener, R. L., Winter, R., Rogers, M., & Arnot, L. (2004). The effects of
prior workplace behavior on subsequent sexual harassment judgments. Law and
Human Behavior, 28, 47-67.
Wiener, R. L., Arnot, L., Winter, R., & Redmond, B. (2006). Generic prejudice
in the law: Sexual assault and homicide. Basic and Applied Social Psychology,
28, 145-155.
Winter, R. J., & Greene, E. (2007). Juror decision-making. In F. Durso (Ed).
Handbook of Applied Cognition (2nd ed.). New York, NY, US: Wiley & Sons,
Ltd.