Rational Thinking Promotes Suspect‐friendly Legal Decision Making
Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: Summary Judges, juries, and other legal decision makers are frequently obligated to find facts about an alleged crime. Does this fact finding benefit from purely rational decision making or from a more intuitive approach? In three studies, rationality was found to be related to more suspect‐lenient decision making. The data suggest that fact finding in criminal proceedings is served best with strictly rational analyses of the evidence, rather than with intuition, gut feeling, and other obscure decision processes.Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Source: Applied Cognitive Psychology
DOI: 10.1002/acp.3198
Author: Eric Rassin
Institution: Erasmus University Rotterdam
Language: English
Subfield: General Decision Sciences
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2179028737