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This chapter addresses the question of whether law and psychology is really an inter-disciplinary field, or whether it is simply the case that scholars are carrying out work in law and in psychology which infrequently, and perhaps by accident, overlaps. It argues that although there are many areas of common interest, it is only rarely that practitioners in either discipline become aware of this, and it is almost unheard of for them to work together. Lawyers take very little notice of the work done by psychologists, unless it serves their immediate purpose. One of their stock defences against work that has inconvenient content is to stress the difficulty of generalizing from experimental work to the courtroom – a problem acknowledged by everyone in the field. A mutually informed common evolution in psychology and law can develop only when experimenters take account of the legal context in which the rules or phenomena concerned actually operate.
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