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"Outsmarting Your Biases & Helping Jurors Outsmart Theirs Too"

This post was written by Douglas Keene: "Emily Pronin is a Psychology professor at Princeton. She studies how we tend to see ourselves as different than others and how that leads us to judge ourselves as better than others to our own detriment. Recently, Dr. Pronin did a brief interview with the Washington Post on how our self-awareness blind spots lead us to make poor (or biased) decisions. The article itself was on investment decisions but it has much to teach us about litigation advocacy.

What Dr. Pronin says is that even when we are told about "blind spot biases", we continue to deny they exist--at least in us!..."

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Source: The Jury Room, 18 October 2010. Reproduced with permission of Douglas Keene.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on October 19, 2010 (boomark / email).