TY - JOUR AU - Bergman Blix, Stina AU - Wettergren, Åsa PY - 2018/10/22 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - The Emotional Interaction of Judicial Objectivity JF - Oñati Socio-Legal Series JA - Oñati Socio-Legal Series VL - 9 IS - 5 SE - Social Dynamics of Emotion in Judging DO - UR - https://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/article/view/1076 SP - 726-746 AB - Like other Western legal systems, the Swedish legal system constructs objectivity as an unemotional state of being. We argue that the enactment of objectivity <em>in situ</em> relies on objectivity work including emotion management and empathy. Building on qualitative interviews and observations in Swedish district courts, we analyse courtroom interaction through a dramaturgical lens, highlighting tacit signals and interprofessional emotional communication aimed to secure objective procedures, while sustaining the ideal of unemotional objectivity. By analytically separating objectivity from impartiality, we show that judges&rsquo; objective performances balance empathic attunement and restrained expressions to uphold an impartial presentation. Prosecutors take pride in maintaining objectivity in spite of being partial, fostering the ability to switch between engagement and disengagement depending on the strength of the case. The requirement for legal professionals to be autonomous demands skillful inter-professional emotional attuning. Thereby, collaborative professional emotion management achieves the ideal of justice as being objective. <br /><br /> Al igual que otros sistemas jur&iacute;dicos occidentales, el sueco construye la objetividad como un estado del ser no emocional. Argumentamos que la aplicaci&oacute;n de la objetividad <em>in situ </em>se apoya en un trabajo de objetividad que incluye la gesti&oacute;n de las emociones y la empat&iacute;a. Bas&aacute;ndonos en entrevistas cualitativas y en observaciones en juzgados de Suecia, analizamos la interacci&oacute;n que se da en el tribunal, destacando se&ntilde;ales t&aacute;citas y comunicaci&oacute;n emocional interprofesional destinada a asegurar procedimientos objetivos, a la vez que a sostener el ideal de objetividad no emotiva. Al separar anal&iacute;ticamente objetividad de imparcialidad, mostramos que las actuaciones objetivas de los jueces suponen un equilibrio entre la sinton&iacute;a emp&aacute;tica y la contenci&oacute;n expresiva para defender una presentaci&oacute;n imparcial. El requisito de que los profesionales del derecho sean aut&oacute;nomos demanda una sinton&iacute;a emocional interprofesional. Por tanto, la gesti&oacute;n emocional colaborativa de los profesionales cumple con el ideal de justicia objetiva.<br /><br /> <strong>Available from: </strong><a href="https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1031" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1031</a> ER -