ABSTRACT
This chapter examines what judicial officers say and do about their feelings and emotion experiences and shows how emotion and emotion work are integral to the performance of judicial work. Judicial emotion experience and display are affected by location, the mix of participants—professional or lay—their relations, interactions, values and goals as well as the norms and rituals operating in the locations in which judicial officers work. Management of judicial emotion can rely primarily on the judicial officer’s own techniques and strategies, or entail input from others such as colleagues or court staff. Judicial officers’ interactions with legal representatives in court can generate felt emotions which may require management to maintain an emotionless demeanour. Some visible judicial emotion can indicate or communicate a shared humanity with other court users that enhance rather than detract from judicial authority. The chapter highlights the meaning and functions of judicial display of emotion or emotion-related conduct, before discussing judicial emotion self-management strategies.
