Publications by authors named "Katie M Snider"
Testing the model of judicial stress using a COVID-era survey of U.S. federal court personnel.
Psychiatr Psychol Law
May 2024
Article Synopsis
- Non-judicial court personnel face high levels of stress due to overloaded dockets and impactful decision-making, which can harm judicial efficiency.
- The study used an adapted model to evaluate stress among 122 various court personnel, revealing that stress adversely affects cognitive and job performance, job satisfaction, and overall health.
- The findings suggest that the pandemic has worsened perceived job performance, highlighting the model's relevance to a wide range of courtroom roles.
Judges' emotion: an application of the emotion regulation process model.
Psychiatr Psychol Law
April 2021
Courtrooms are often emotionally charged atmospheres where parties have a vested interest in the proceedings and their outcomes. Judges are exposed to a wide range of emotions and stressors in the course of their work. Though the ideal of a dispassionate judge persists, more empirical work is needed to identify how judges regulate their own emotional experience in court.
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