The author reviewed the research on the impact of cognitive biases on professionals'
decision-making in four occupational areas (management, finance, medicine, and law). Two …

Do judges make decisions that are truly impartial? A wide range of experimental and field
studies reveal that several extralegal factors influence judicial decision making …

Prior work has identified a resilient phenomenon that threatens the performance of human-
AI decision-making teams: overreliance, when people agree with an AI, even when it is …

Since the passage of the Civil Rights Act, virtually all companies have antidiscrimination
policies in place. Although these policies represent some progress, women and minorities …

Como probablemente el lector no sepa, Peitho es el nombre de una deidad griega de
genealogía algo dudosa y que representó en Atenas, a partir del siglo V aC, la persuasión …

Are judicial rulings based solely on laws and facts? Legal formalism holds that judges apply
legal reasons to the facts of a case in a rational, mechanical, and deliberative manner. In …

This article reports on an effort to explore the differences between two approaches to
intuition and expertise that are often viewed as conflicting: heuristics and biases (HB) and …

We analyze the impact of outdoor temperature on high-stakes decisions (immigration
adjudications) made by professional decision-makers (US immigration judges). In our …

Justice is not blind. Researchers have found that black defendants fare worse in court than
do their white counterparts. In a study of bail-setting in Connecticut, for example, Ian Ayres …

Dressel and Farid recently found that laypeople were as accurate as statistical algorithms in
predicting whether a defendant would reoffend, casting doubt on the value of risk …