TY - JOUR
AU - Walker, Laurens
AB - Law and Human Behavior, VoL 3, Nos. 1/2, I979 Theory Testing, Theory Development, and Laboratory Research on Legal Issues* E. Allan Lindt and Laurens Walker:[: The term "simulation" is often used to describe any empirical study of legal issues that is not conducted in an actual court setting, and it is tempting to believe that the quality of such a study depends in part on how closely the study simulates or reproduces a court trial. It is not uncommon for criticisms of some legal "simulations" to point to the use of subject populations unlike the populations that typically occupy various roles in the legal system or to the use of stimulus materials and research settings that differ substantially from actual court cases and en- vironments (cf., Meehl, 1977; Bray, Note 1). These criticisms are based on the idea that the results of studies that do not closely approximate legal contexts and pop- ulations cannot be generalized to actual legal behavior. Of course, it is implicit in the evaluation of research in this manner that inductive inferences are of primary impor- tance in empirical legal research. That is, criticisms of this sort assume that the major value of empirical studies 
TI - Theory Testing, Theory Development, and Laboratory Research on Legal Issues
JF - Law and Human Behavior
DO - 10.1007/BF01039146
DA - 1979-03-01
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SP - 5
EP - 19
VL - 3
IS - 1-2
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