Brian H. Bornstein
bbornstein2@unl.edu
402-472-3743

Brian Bornstein has been an Associate Professor at UNL since joining the psychology department in 2000. He is a member of the law/psychology and cognitive psychology programs, as well as Associate Director of the law/psychology program. He received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991,and a Master of Legal Studies from the University of Nebraska in 2001. Dr. Bornstein's research efforts focus primarily on how juries, especially in civil cases, make decisions, and the reliability of eyewitness memory. Additional areas of focus are in applying decision-making principles to everyday judgment tasks, as in medical decision making and distributive justice. He teaches courses on human memory, psychology and law, decision making, and history of
psychology at the graduate and undergraduate levels.

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Recent Publications

Bornstein, B.H., Rung, L.M., & Miller, M. (2002). Should physicians apologize for their mistakes? The role of remorse in a simulated malpractice trial. Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 20, 393-409.

Greene, E., & Bornstein, B.H. (2000). Precious little guidance: Jury instruction on damage awards. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 6, 743-768.

Bornstein, B.H. (1999). The ecological validity of jury simulations: Is the jury still out? Law and Human Behavior, 23, 75-91 (special 20th anniversary issue).

Bornstein, B.H., Emler, A.C., & Chapman, G.B. (1999). Rationality in medical treatment decisions: Is there a sunk-cost effect? Social Science & Medicine, 49, 215-222.

Bornstein, B.H., & Zickafoose, D.J. (1999). I know I know it, I know I saw it: The stability of overconfidence across domains. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 5, 1-13.

Zickafoose, D.J., & Bornstein, B.H. (1999). Double discounting: The effects of comparative negligence on mock juror decision making. Law and Human Behavior, 23, 577-596.