In Indian legal research, ANALYSIS OF JUDICIAL DECISION-MAKING (sociology of judging) considers:

1. SOCIOLOGY OF JUDGING (or judicial behaviour studies) examines factors influencing judicial decision-making BEYOND formal legal analysis. 2. DIMENSIONS: 3. (i) JUDICIAL ATTITUDES — political ideology, values, judicial philosophy; 4. (ii) BACKGROUND — education, professional experience, social origin; 5. (iii) INSTITUTIONAL CONSTRAINTS — court hierarchy, panel composition, workload; 6. (iv) EXTRA-LEGAL FACTORS — media attention, political context; 7. (v) BEHAVIOURAL TESTS — voting patterns, opinion writing styles, attendance. 8. INDIAN STUDIES: relatively underdeveloped; emerging work — Sandra Fredman, Madhav Khosla, Surya Deva, Arudra Burra on Indian Supreme Court; the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy's research on judicial appointments and case load. 9. METHODS: regression analysis, content analysis of judgments, interviews with judges (where ethically permitted), text mining. 10. KEY US STUDIES: attitudinal model (Segal and Spaeth), strategic model (Epstein and Knight), institutional model. 11. Hence option B is correct. _Source: Legal Research Methodology + Jurisprudence — Sociology of judging; Judicial behaviour studies; Empirical work on Indian judiciary_