43 3 Deliberating about Dollars: The Severity Shift David A. Schkade, Cass R. Sunstein, and Daniel Kahneman I. Introduction With respect to punitive damages, how does group discussion affect individual views? How, if at all, is the outcome of group deliberation dif- ferent from a statistical aggregation of individual predeliberation judg- ments? How might jury deliberations depart from the median or mean of individual judgments made in advance of deliberation? In this chapter we attempt to make some progress on answering these questions. We do so principally by
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