Legal Interpretative Process and Litigants' Cognitive Biases

Attentional and interpretative biases in appearance concern: An investigation of biases in appearance-related information processing.

The present study examined associations between high levels of appearance concern and information processing biases in interpretation and attention. An opportunity sample (N=79) categorised ambiguous stimuli as related or unrelated to appearance. Participants then responded to the same stimuli in a modified visual dot-probe task assessing attentional bias. Participant responses were assessed in...

Parental opinions of their child's experience in the legal process: an interpretative analysis.

The aim of this study is to demonstrate how parents of children who are victims of sexual assault experience the legal process from the children's and parents' perspective. Nine parents, identified in the records of three public prosecution offices in three cities in Sweden, were interviewed. The parents described feelings of shame and guilt over what their children had experienced. They felt s...

Legal Process

Parents’ opinions – view of their child’s experiences in the legal process: An interpretative analysis of parents’ opinions

Parents' opinions – view of their child's experiences in the legal process: An interpretative analysis of parents' opinions.

Procedural and Legal Motivations to Correct for Perceived Judicial Biases

The question of whether procedural or legal concerns per se can motivate corrections of jurors’ judgments when in conflict with accuracy concerns was examined. Mock jury members were exposed to diagnostic incriminating evidence that was obtained in either serious or mild violation of due process and that was ruled as admissible or inadmissible. When the evidence was obtained in serious violatio...