Pantazi, Myrto;
Klein, Olivier;
Kissine, Mikhail;
(2020)
Is justice blind or myopic? An examination of the effects of meta-cognitive myopia and truth bias on mock jurors and judges.
Judgment and Decision Making
, 15
(2)
pp. 214-229.
10.1017/S1930297500007361.
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Abstract
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 quality and correctness of the information available in the environment. In two studies we tested whether meta-cognitive myopia and the ensuing truth bias may operate in a courtroom setting. Based on a well-established paradigm in the truth-bias literature, we asked mock jurors (Study 1) and professional judges (Study 2) to read two crime reports containing aggravating or mitigating information that was explicitly flagged as false. Our findings suggest that jurors and judges are truth-biased, as their decisions and memory about the cases were affected by the false information. We discuss the implications of the potential operation of the truth bias in the courtroom, in the light of the literature on inadmissible and discredible evidence, and make some policy suggestions.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Is justice blind or myopic? An examination of the effects of meta-cognitive myopia and truth bias on mock jurors and judges |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1017/S1930297500007361 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S1930297500007361 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Creative Common License - CCCreative Common License - BY The authors license this article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Copyright Copyright © The Authors [2020] This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | Social Sciences, Psychology, Multidisciplinary, Psychology, truth bias, meta-cognitive myopia, legal decision-making, accountability, INADMISSIBLE TESTIMONY, SOCIAL THEORIES, INFORMATION, JUDGMENT, JURY, PERSEVERANCE, ACCOUNTABILITY, BELIEF, INSTRUCTIONS, DECEPTION |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Linguistics |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10214666 |
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