When litigants integrate data and models with decision sciences research showing
how psychological biases and heuristics lead to suboptimal results, they acquire new and valuable tools to assess their alternatives.
Not exact matches
Our aims are as follows: 1) to determine whether disclosure of elevated brain amyloid will
bias ADCS - PACC test results; 2) to determine whether disclosure of elevated brain amyloid will cause
psychological distress; and 3) to explore
how learning amyloid imaging disclosure will impact preventative health behaviors, advance planning for health (e.g. long - term care insurance decisions) and well - being (e.g. stigma, quality of life and relationships).
However, I don't think that many people are aware of just
how much
psychological bias goes in to a given discussion.
If you don't understand the
psychological biases and heuristics that technical experts, policy - makers, and the general public, use in thinking about uncertain risks, you won't be able to communicate effectively because people will unconsciously distort what you say to fit their preconceived (possibly faulty) mental model of the issue (see M. Granger Morgan, «Risk Communication: A Mental Models Approach» (Cambridge, 2001) for solid empirical evidence of this problem and
how to avoid it.
I was interested in the climate wars prior to that — but hearing what she had to say piqued my interest because for quite a while I have been interested in what sorts of things
bias how people reason I have been particularly interested in
how people use pattern - finding to make sense of the world, and
how people's cultural / social / ideological / experiential /
psychological identifications affect their cognition and reasoning.
``... I have questioned the selectivity of her reasoning within a context of noting
how motivated reasoning
biases all of our analysis because of known cognitive and
psychological attributes»
I have questioned the selectivity of her reasoning within a context of noting
how motivated reasoning
biases all of our analysis because of known cognitive and
psychological attributes, and saying that what's most important that we acknowledge our
biases and try to control for them.
Dr. Jennifer Harman - Science of Relationships articles Website / CV Dr. Harman's research examines relationship behaviors that put people at - risk for physical and
psychological health problems, such as
how feelings and beliefs about risk (e.g., sexual risk taking) can be
biased when in a relationship.
So, what the learned, but possibly
biased (remember, the 50/50 rule pro or con here) Judge has publicly stated as reasoning for the continuance of Dale's suit is, in «my» own words, that... «In my mind (according to
how I personally see things in my own
biased mind (I am human after all) from my own
psychological / political perspective re
how I want to apply the wording of the law in this particular case), Mr. Dale has the «legal» right to continue with his lawsuit because I, being the sole judge of the presented facts and tactics of persuasion as presented by both sides in this dispute, side with Mr. Dale more so than with TREB and CREA for the following reason (s):