As reflected in the amount of controversy, few areas in psychology have undergone such
dramatic conceptual changes in the past decade as the emerging science of heuristics …

How do people make decisions under conditions of limited knowledge, time, and cognitive
capacity in real-life situations such as sports? In this review I will introduce the concept of …

Statistical illiteracy can have an enormously negative impact on decision making. This
volume of collected papers brings together applied and theoretical research on risks and …

Performance science is a fairly new multidisciplinary field that integrates performance
domains such as sports, medicine, business, and the arts. To give its many branches a …

A famous tale talks about three baseball umpires who were asked how they rule on a ball.
One said," I call it ike I see it." Another said," I call it like it is." And the last one (and this is …

Rape and sexual assault are unique crimes because they are mostly perpetrated against
female children, female adolescents and women. 1 In addition, both male and female victims …

Impartiality is essential to jurisdiction, and among other things, it guarantees the parties and
the maintenance of democracy itself. The procedural law systems currently in force in Brazil …

Over 95% of criminal convictions in the United States are the result of guilty pleas.
Consequently, it is critical that we ensure the process of pleading guilty is as free of coercion …

According to the scales of justice, the judge, in an unbiased way and directed by law,
attends to all of the available information in a case, weighs it according to its significance …

The aim of this study was to explore when experts trust their intuition. The Take‐The‐First
heuristic suggests that experts generate a few options based on option validity that match …