litigation | Legal Psychology

Do androids dream about biased judges? – Self-fulfilling prophecies in litigation prediction by AI

A potentially valuable feature of AI applied in the legal field is identifying insightful patterns of how specific courts and judges...

When our judgments drift us to dangerous shores - The anchoring effect in legal decision-making

„We should not moor a ship with one anchor or our life with one hope.” (Epictetus, Greek philosopher) For those familiar with the...

Flawed fortune-telling - Conjunction fallacy in legal setting

Conjunction fallacy is a well-known judgmental bias that shows that people erroneously believe that events described in more detail are...

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I knew it all along! But did I? - Hindsight bias in negligence cases

When people evaluate events or outcomes after they have occurred, they tend to exhibit the so-called hindsight bias: they judge the event...

One apple a day keeps the bad ruling away - extraneous factors in judicial decisions

When judges make repeated sequential rulings, they simplify their decisions in cases with similar legal characteristics and rule more in...

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