Based upon a number of subjective well-being (SWB) surveys and neuroscience studies, people's remembered emotions are usually rosier than people's experienced emotions, and people are motivated to make choices based upon their predicted emotions which tend to coincide with their emotional memories. [read post]

 As Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in his concurring opinion in Citizens United, “Fidelity to precedent — the policy of stare decisis — is vital to the proper exercise of the judicial function. [read post]