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Society, Politics & Law
Weighing up the reliability of expert criminal evidence
Caroline Derry and Ian M. Kennedy debate the effects of forensic and linguistic distinctions on real-life decision making.
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Society, Politics & Law
How Do Jurors Decide When a Witness is Telling the Truth?
Professor Fiona Leverick deciphers the mysteries of one of jurors' most important decisions.
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Society, Politics & Law
The value and progress of jury research in Scotland
Professor James Chalmers reports on the findings - and questions - brought about by the Scottish Jury Research project.
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Society, Politics & Law
Jury Decision-Making: What’s the Story?
What is the 'story model' theory - and how can it be applied to understanding jury decision making?
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Society, Politics & Law
Tackling juror trauma and stress
What is the impact of jury duty? How can we tackle the trauma and support jurors?
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Are you a super recogniser?
Police super-recognisers have an above average ability to recognise faces and have identified a large number of criminals via CCTV footage. Do you possess the skill? Try our quiz to find out.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Decision Making Theory and its Implications for Policing
Detectives are unique decision makers, who have to search for information, weigh information and make an appropriate decision. It is important, therefore, that the decision making processes of detectives are studied.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Heuristics: The good, the bad, and the biased. What value can bias have for decision makers?
This discussion paper will look at heuristics (rule of thumb techniques for decision making), and their potential value.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
The Relationship between the Big 5 Personality Traits and Eyewitness Recognition
The aim of the current research was to identify which, if any, personality traits are related to recognition in an eyewitness task.
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Society, Politics & Law
The bastard verdict and its influence on jurors
The main aim of this study was to investigate if jurors violate the regularity principle, which is commonly incorporated in many rational choice models, by testing if the introduction of the not proven verdict has an impact on the outcomes given by jurors.
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An inconvenient truth: More rigorous and ecologically valid research is needed to properly understand cognitive bias in forensic decisions
Assessing the prevalence, impact and type of cognitive bias on decision making in different parts of the justice system should be prioritised to ensure continued trust in the system.
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Author response: No need for throwing stones – Wherever you live…
We welcome a constructive debate on the merits of rigorous and ecologically valid research on cognitive bias in forensic decisions.