Is justice blind or myopic? An examination of the effects of meta-cognitive myopia and truth bias on mock jurors and judges

Previous studies have shown that people are truth-biased in that they tend to believe the information they receive, even if it is clearly flagged as false. The truth bias has been recently proposed to be an instance of meta-cognitive myopia, that is, of a generalized human insensitivity towards the...

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Main Authors: Myrto Pantazi, Olivier Klein, Mikhail Kissine
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Society for Judgment and Decision Making 2020-03-01
Series:Judgment and Decision Making
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Online Access:http://journal.sjdm.org/19/190118a/jdm190118a.pdf