Robert J. MacCoun - Publications

Affiliations: 
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States 
Area:
General Economics, Public Administration, Social Psychology, Environmental Sciences

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2017 Hughes CE, Moxham-Hall V, Ritter A, Weatherburn D, MacCoun R. The deterrent effects of Australian street-level drug law enforcement on illicit drug offending at outdoor music festivals. The International Journal On Drug Policy. PMID 28131615 DOI: 10.1016/J.Drugpo.2016.12.018  0.302
2015 Tyler TR, Goff PA, MacCoun RJ. The Impact of Psychological Science on Policing in the United States: Procedural Justice, Legitimacy, and Effective Law Enforcement. Psychological Science in the Public Interest : a Journal of the American Psychological Society. 16: 75-109. PMID 26635334 DOI: 10.1177/1529100615617791  0.381
2015 MacCoun RJ. The Epistemic Contract: Fostering an Appropriate Level of Public Trust in Experts. Nebraska Symposium On Motivation. Nebraska Symposium On Motivation. 62: 191-214. PMID 26410926 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-16151-8_9  0.311
2015 MacCoun RJ. Balancing evidence and norms in cultural evolution Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. 129: 93-104. DOI: 10.1016/J.Obhdp.2014.09.009  0.318
2013 Sah S, Moore DA, MacCoun RJ. Cheap talk and credibility: The consequences of confidence and accuracy on advisor credibility and persuasiveness Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. 121: 246-255. DOI: 10.1016/J.Obhdp.2013.02.001  0.316
2012 Ellman IM, Braver SL, MacCoun RJ. Abstract principles and concrete cases in intuitive lawmaking. Law and Human Behavior. 36: 96-108. PMID 22471414 DOI: 10.1007/S10979-011-9268-2  0.316
2012 MacCoun RJ. The burden of social proof: shared thresholds and social influence. Psychological Review. 119: 345-72. PMID 22352358 DOI: 10.1037/A0027121  0.321
2012 Kerr NL, MacCoun RJ. Is the leniency asymmetry really dead? Misinterpreting asymmetry effects in criminal jury deliberation Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. 15: 585-602. DOI: 10.1177/1368430212441639  0.597
2012 Maccoun RJ, Martin KD. Drugs The Oxford Handbook of Crime and Public Policy. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199844654.013.0021  0.511
2011 MacCoun RJ, Reuter P. Assessing drug prohibition and its alternatives: A guide for agnostics Annual Review of Law and Social Science. 7: 61-78. DOI: 10.1146/Annurev-Lawsocsci-102510-105442  0.335
2009 MacCoun R, Pacula RL, Chriqui J, Harris K, Reuter P. Do Citizens Know Whether Their State Has Decriminalized Marijuana? Assessing the Perceptual Component of Deterrence Theory Review of Law & Economics. 5. DOI: 10.2202/1555-5879.1227  0.312
2009 MacCoun RJ, Paletz S. Citizens' perceptions of ideological bias in research on public policy controversies Political Psychology. 30: 43-65. DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-9221.2008.00680.X  0.356
2008 MacCoun R, Reuter P. The implicit rules of evidence-based drug policy: a U.S. perspective. The International Journal On Drug Policy. 19: 231-2; discussion 23. PMID 18424113 DOI: 10.1016/J.Drugpo.2008.02.012  0.354
2008 Maccoun RJ. Bridging the gap between science and drug policy: From "what" and "how" to "whom" and "when", Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 31: 454-455. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X08004901  0.311
2008 Tenney ER, Spellman BA, MacCoun RJ. The benefits of knowing what you know (and what you don't): How calibration affects credibility Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 44: 1368-1375. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jesp.2008.04.006  0.305
2006 MacCoun RJ, Kier E, Belkin A. Does social cohesion determine motivation in combat? An old question with an old answer Armed Forces and Society. 32: 646-654. DOI: 10.1177/0095327X05279181  0.339
2005 MacCoun RJ. VOICE, CONTROL, AND BELONGING: The Double-Edged Sword of Procedural Fairness Annual Review of Law and Social Science. 1: 171-201. DOI: 10.1146/Annurev.Lawsocsci.1.041604.115958  0.315
2001 MacCoun RJ, Reuter P. Drug war heresies: learning from other vices, times and places. Contemporary Sociology. 32: 238. DOI: 10.1017/Cbo9780511754272  0.367
2001 MacCoun RJ. American distortion of Dutch drug statistics Society. 38: 23-26. DOI: 10.1007/Bf02686215  0.383
2000 MacCoun R, Reuter P, Schelling T. Assessing alternative drug control regimes. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management : [the Journal of the Association For Public Policy Analysis and Management]. 15: 330-52. PMID 10848158 DOI: 10.1002/(Sici)1520-6688(199622)15:3<330::Aid-Pam1>3.0.Co;2-J  0.355
1999 MacCoun RJ. Epistemological dilemmas in the assessment of legal decision making Law and Human Behavior. 23: 723-730. DOI: 10.1023/A:1022353825440  0.341
1998 MacCoun RJ. Biases in the interpretation and use of research results Annual Review of Psychology. 49: 259-287. DOI: 10.1146/Annurev.Psych.49.1.259  0.33
1997 MacCoun R, Reuter P. Interpreting Dutch cannabis policy: reasoning by analogy in the legalization debate. Science (New York, N.Y.). 278: 47-52. PMID 9311925 DOI: 10.1126/Science.278.5335.47  0.322
1996 MacCoun RJ. Differential treatment of corporate defendants by juries: An examination of the "deep-pockets" hypothesis Law and Society Review. 30: 121-161. DOI: 10.2307/3054036  0.331
1996 Reuter P, MacCoun RJ. Harm reduction and social policy: Should addicts be paid? Drug and Alcohol Review. 15: 225-230. DOI: 10.1080/09595239600185951  0.321
1996 Kerr NL, MacCoun RJ, Kramer GP. Bias in judgment: Comparing individuals and groups Psychological Review. 103: 687-719. DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.103.4.687  0.6
1996 Bailis DS, MacCoun RJ. Estimating liability risks with the media as your guide: A content analysis of media coverage of tort litigation. Law and Human Behavior. 20: 419-429. DOI: 10.1007/Bf01498978  0.301
1995 Reuter P, MacCoun RJ. Lessons from the absence of harm reduction in American drug policy Tobacco Control. 4: S28-S32. DOI: 10.1136/Tc.4.Suppl2.S28  0.323
1993 MacCoun RJ. Drugs and the law: A psychological analysis of drug prohibition Psychological Bulletin. 113: 497-512. PMID 8316611 DOI: 10.1037/0033-2909.113.3.497  0.357
1993 MacCoun RJ, Kahan JP, Gillespie J, Rhee J. A content analysis of the drug legalization debate Journal of Drug Issues. 23: 615-629. DOI: 10.1177/002204269302300404  0.32
1990 MacCoun RJ. The emergence of extralegal BIAS during jury deliberation Criminal Justice and Behavior. 17: 303-314. DOI: 10.1177/0093854890017003005  0.346
1988 MacCoun RJ, Kerr NL. Asymmetric influence in mock jury deliberation: jurors' bias for leniency. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 54: 21-33. PMID 3346806 DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.54.1.21  0.622
1988 MacCoun RJ, Tyler TR. The basis of citizen's perceptions of the criminal jury - Procedural fairness, accuracy, and efficiency Law and Human Behavior. 12: 333-352. DOI: 10.1007/Bf01044389  0.327
1987 Jackson LA, MacCoun RJ, Kerr NL. Stereotypes and Nonstereotypic Judgments Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 13: 45-52. DOI: 10.1177/0146167287131004  0.583
1987 MacCoun RJ, Kerr NL. Suspicion in the Psychological Laboratory: Kelman's Prophecy Revisited American Psychologist. 42: 199. DOI: 10.1037/0003-066X.42.2.199.A  0.559
1987 Kerr NL, MacCoun RJ, Hansen CH, Hymes JA. Gaining and losing social support: Momentum in decision-making groups Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 23: 119-145. DOI: 10.1016/0022-1031(87)90028-X  0.62
1986 Carroll JS, Kerr NL, Alfini JJ, Weaver FM, MacCoun RJ, Feldman V. Free press and fair trial: The role of behavioral research Law and Human Behavior. 10: 187-201. DOI: 10.1007/BF01046209  0.562
1985 Kerr NL, MacCoun RJ. The Effects of Jury Size and Polling Method on the Process and Product of Jury Deliberation Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 48: 349-363. PMID 3981399 DOI: 10.1037//0022-3514.48.2.349  0.603
1985 Kerr NL, Bull RHC, MacCoun RJ, Rathborn H. Effects of victim attractiveness, care and disfigurement on the judgements of American and British mock jurors* British Journal of Social Psychology. 24: 47-58. DOI: 10.1111/J.2044-8309.1985.Tb00659.X  0.613
1985 Kerr NL, MacCoun RJ. Role Expectations in Social Dilemmas. Sex Roles and Task Motivation in Groups Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 49: 1547-1556. DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.49.6.1547  0.611
1984 Kerr NL, MacCoun RJ. Sex Composition of Groups and Member Motivation II: Effects of Relative Task Ability Basic and Applied Social Psychology. 5: 255-271. DOI: 10.1207/S15324834Basp0504_1  0.584
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2017 Humphreys K, Malenka RC, Knutson B, MacCoun RJ. Brains, environments, and policy responses to addiction. Science (New York, N.Y.). 356: 1237-1238. PMID 28642399 DOI: 10.1126/Science.Aan0655  0.298
2014 Braver SL, Ellman IM, MacCoun RJ. Public intuitions about fair child support allocations: Converging evidence for a "fair shares" rule Psychology, Public Policy, and Law. 20: 146-163. DOI: 10.2139/Ssrn.2110376  0.296
2014 MacCoun RJ. New evidence on the tenuous state of evidence-based drug policy. Addiction (Abingdon, England). 109: 1234-5. PMID 25041197 DOI: 10.1111/Add.12533  0.294
2013 MacCoun RJ. Moral Outrage and Opposition to Harm Reduction Criminal Law and Philosophy. 7: 83-98. DOI: 10.1007/S11572-012-9154-0  0.292
2005 Pacula RL, MacCoun R, Reuter P, Chriqui J, Kilmer B, Harris K, Paoli L, Schäfer C. What does it mean to decriminalize marijuana? A cross-national empirical examination. Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research. 16: 347-370. DOI: 10.1016/S0731-2199(05)16017-8  0.29
2017 Kilmer B, MacCoun RJ. How Medical Marijuana Smoothed the Transition to Marijuana Legalization in the United States Annual Review of Law and Social Science. 13: 181-202. DOI: 10.1146/Annurev-Lawsocsci-110615-084851  0.29
2009 Ellman IM, Braver SL, MacCoun R. Intuitive Lawmaking: The Example of Child Support Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. 6: 69-109. DOI: 10.2139/Ssrn.997964  0.288
1998 MacCoun RJ. Toward a Psychology of Harm Reduction American Psychologist. 53: 1199-1208. PMID 9830372 DOI: 10.1037/0003-066X.53.11.1199  0.286
2003 Caulkins JP, MacCoun R. Limited Rationality and the Limits of Supply Reduction Journal of Drug Issues. 33: 433-464. DOI: 10.1177/002204260303300208  0.286
2018 MacCoun RJ. Enhancing research credibility when replication is not feasible. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 41: e142. PMID 31064554 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X18000778  0.284
1996 MacCoun RJ. Is melioration the addiction theory of choice? Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 19: 586-587. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X00043144  0.281
1992 MacCoun R, Reuter P. Are the Wages of Sin $30 an Hour? Economic Aspects of Street-Level Drug Dealing Crime & Delinquency. 38: 477-491. DOI: 10.1177/0011128792038004005  0.28
1995 Saner H, MacCoun R, Reuter P. On the ubiquity of drug selling among youthful offenders in Washington, D.C., 1985–1991: Age, period, or cohort effect? Journal of Quantitative Criminology. 11: 337-362. DOI: 10.1007/Bf02630568  0.28
2007 Tenney ER, MacCoun RJ, Spellman BA, Hastie R. Calibration trumps confidence as a basis for witness credibility. Psychological Science. 18: 46-50. PMID 17362377 DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-9280.2007.01847.X  0.279
2010 Maccoun RJ. The implicit rules of evidence-based policy analysis, updated. Addiction (Abingdon, England). 105: 1335-6. PMID 20653614 DOI: 10.1111/J.1360-0443.2010.02936.X  0.274
2013 Maccoun RJ. The Puzzling Unidimensionality of DSM-5 Substance Use Disorder Diagnoses. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 4: 153. PMID 24324446 DOI: 10.3389/Fpsyt.2013.00153  0.269
2018 Haffajee RL, MacCoun RJ, Mello MM. Behind Schedule - Reconciling Federal and State Marijuana Policy. The New England Journal of Medicine. PMID 29996065 DOI: 10.1056/Nejmp1804408  0.269
2000 MacCoun RJ. The Costs and Benefits of Letting Juries Punish Corporations: Comment on Viscusi Stanford Law Review. 52: 1821. DOI: 10.2307/1229503  0.267
2001 MacCoun R, Reuter P. Cannabis regimes--a response. The British Journal of Psychiatry : the Journal of Mental Science. 179: 369-70. PMID 11581124 DOI: 10.1192/Bjp.179.4.369-A  0.266
2020 MacCoun RJ. BALANCING COMPASSION, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND CAUSAL CLARITY. Addiction (Abingdon, England). PMID 32643245 DOI: 10.1111/Add.15164  0.266
2001 MacCoun R, Reuter P. Evaluating alternative cannabis regimes. The British Journal of Psychiatry : the Journal of Mental Science. 178: 123-8. PMID 11157425 DOI: 10.1192/Bjp.178.2.123  0.262
2012 Caulkins JP, Kilmer B, MacCoun RJ, Pacula RL, Reuter P. Design considerations for legalizing cannabis: lessons inspired by analysis of California's Proposition 19. Addiction (Abingdon, England). 107: 865-71. PMID 21985069 DOI: 10.1111/J.1360-0443.2011.03561.X  0.26
2008 MacCoun R, Cook PJ, Muschkin C, Vigdor JL. Distinguishing Spurious and Real Peer Effects: Evidence from Artificial Societies, Small-Group Experiments, and Real Schoolyards Review of Law & Economics. 4. DOI: 10.2202/1555-5879.1226  0.26
2011 MacCoun RJ. What can we learn from the Dutch cannabis coffeeshop system? Addiction (Abingdon, England). 106: 1899-910. PMID 21906196 DOI: 10.1111/J.1360-0443.2011.03572.X  0.259
2002 MacCoun R, Reuter P. PREFACE The Varieties of Drug Control at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 582: 7-19. DOI: 10.1177/000271620258200101  0.257
1996 Kulik CT, Allan Lind E, Ambrose ML, MacCoun RJ. Understanding gender differences in distributive and procedural justice Social Justice Research. 9: 351-369. DOI: 10.1007/Bf02196990  0.254
2012 MacCoun RJ. "The burden of social proof: Shared thresholds and social influence: " Correction to MacCoun (2012). Psychological Review. 119: 372-372. DOI: 10.1037/A0027790  0.252
1991 MacCoun RJ. Unintended consequences of court arbitration: A cautionary tale from New Jersey Justice System Journal. 14: 229-243. DOI: 10.1080/23277556.1991.10871126  0.252
2009 Maccoun RJ. Harm reduction is a good label for a criterion all drug programs should meet. Addiction (Abingdon, England). 104: 341-2; discussion 34. PMID 19207338 DOI: 10.1111/J.1360-0443.2008.02388.X  0.248
1999 Anderson MC, MacCoun RJ. Goal conflict in juror assessments of compensatory and punitive damages Law and Human Behavior. 23: 313-330. DOI: 10.1023/A:1022308515445  0.246
2006 Maccoun RJ. Competing accounts of the gateway effect: the field thins, but still no clear winner. Addiction (Abingdon, England). 101: 473-4; discussion 47. PMID 16548926 DOI: 10.1111/J.1360-0443.2006.01428.X  0.238
2007 Cook PJ, MacCoun R, Muschkin C, Vigdor J. The negative impacts of starting middle school in sixth grade Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 27: 104-121. DOI: 10.1002/Pam.20309  0.236
2015 MacCoun R, Perlmutter S. Blind analysis: Hide results to seek the truth. Nature. 526: 187-9. PMID 26450040 DOI: 10.1038/526187A  0.236
2015 MacCoun RJ, Mello MM. Half-baked--the retail promotion of marijuana edibles. The New England Journal of Medicine. 372: 989-91. PMID 25760351 DOI: 10.1056/Nejmp1416014  0.232
1995 MacCoun RJ, Foster KR, Bernstein DE, Huber PW. Phantom Risk: Scientific Inference and the Law Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 14: 168. DOI: 10.2307/3325444  0.229
2006 Cook PJ, MacCoun R, Muschkin C, Vigdor JL. Should Sixth Grade be in Elementary or Middle School? An Analysis of Grade Configuration and Student Behavior National Bureau of Economic Research. DOI: 10.3386/W12471  0.218
2005 MacCoun RJ. Conflicts of interest in public policy research Conflicts of Interest: Challenges and Solutions in Business, Law, Medicine, and Public Policy. 233-262. DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511610332.018  0.213
2004 MacCoun R. Population thinking as an adjunct to the clinical trial perspective. Psychiatric Services (Washington, D.C.). 55: 509-15. PMID 15128958 DOI: 10.1176/Appi.Ps.55.5.509  0.211
1990 Lind EA, Maccoun RJ, Ebener PA, Felstiner WLF, Hensler DR, Resnik J, Tyler TR. In the Eye of the Beholder: Tort Litigants' Evaluations of Their Experiences in the Civil Justice System Law & Society Review. 24: 953. DOI: 10.2307/3053616  0.211
2003 MacCoun R. Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Generalized Causal Inference, by William R. Shadish, Thomas D. Cook, and Donald T. Campbell. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001, 623 pp., $65.56. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 22: 330-332. DOI: 10.1002/Pam.10129  0.203
2014 Maccoun RJ. Alternative maps of the world of collective behaviors. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 37: 88-90. PMID 24572230 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X13001787  0.2
2002 Horowitz JL, MacCoun RJ, Manski CF. The national research council's report 'informing America's policy on illegal drugs: What we don't know keeps hurting us': Reply to the comments Addiction. 97: 663-664. DOI: 10.1046/J.1360-0443.2002.T01-7-00070.X  0.193
2015 Maccoun RJ. Commentary on Niesink et al. (2015): Interpreting trends in tetrahydrocannabinol potency--three stories, one of which may be true. Addiction (Abingdon, England). 110: 1951-2. PMID 26564524 DOI: 10.1111/Add.13170  0.191
1989 MacCoun RJ. Experimental research on jury decision-making Science. 244: 1046-1050.  0.189
1999 MacCoun RJ. What Harm Reduction Is And Isn'T American Psychologist. 54: 843-844. DOI: 10.1037/0003-066X.54.10.843  0.187
2012 Caulkins JP, Kilmer B, Maccoun RJ, Pacula RL, Reuter P. Response to commentaries. Addiction (Abingdon, England). 107: 876-7. PMID 22471568 DOI: 10.1111/J.1360-0443.2012.03833.X  0.181
2000 Vidmar N, Lempert RO, Diamond SS, Hans VP, Landsman S, MacCoun R, Sanders J, Hosch HM, Kassin S, Galanter M, Eisenberg T, Daniels S, Greene E, Martin J, Penrod S, et al. Amicus brief: Kumho Tire v. Carmichael. Law and Human Behavior. 24: 387-400. PMID 10974799 DOI: 10.1023/A:1005588112385  0.176
1993 Maccoun R. Blaming Others to a Fault? Chance. 6: 31-18. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.1993.10542393  0.171
2005 Pacula RL, MacCoun R, Reuter P, Chriqui J, Kilmer B, Harris K, Paoli L, Schäfer C. What does it mean to decriminalize marijuana? A cross-national empirical examination. Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research. 16: 347-69. PMID 17867248  0.157
2011 Sah S, MacCoun RJ. Unconvinced but persuaded: How confident advisors influence you Academy of Management 2011 Annual Meeting - West Meets East: Enlightening. Balancing. Transcending, Aom 2011. DOI: 10.5464.AMBPP.2011.227.a  0.154
2006 MacCoun RJ. Psychological constraints on transparency in legal and government decision making Swiss Political Science Review. 12: 112-123.  0.14
1996 Bailis DS, MacCoun RJ. Estimating liability risks with the media as your guide Judicature. 80: 64.  0.124
2010 Robbennolt JK, MacCoun RJ, Darley JM. Multiple Constraint Satisfaction in Judging The Psychology of Judicial Decision Making. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1133184  0.052
2017 Kilmer B, MacCoun RJ. How Medical Marijuana Smoothed the Transition to Marijuana Legalization in the United States. Annual Review of Law and Social Science. 13: 181-202. PMID 34045931 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-110615-084851  0.046
2018 MacCoun RJ. Multiple gateways. Addiction (Abingdon, England). PMID 29573364 DOI: 10.1111/add.14196  0.021
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