Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/57496 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Preprints of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods No. 2010,37
Publisher: 
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn
Abstract: 
Criminal procedure is organized as a tournament with predefined roles. We show that assuming the role of a defense counsel or prosecutor leads to role induced bias even if people are highly motivated to give unbiased judgments. In line with parallel constraint satisfaction models for legal decision making, findings indicate that role induced bias is driven by coherence effects (Simon, 2004), that is, systematic information distortions in support of the favored option. These distortions seem to stabilize interpretations, and people do not correct for this bias. Implications for legal procedure are briefly discussed.
Subjects: 
parallel constraint satisfaction
intuition
biases
legal decision making
JEL: 
D81
K42
C91
K14
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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