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"That Would Never Happen to Me!"

This post was written by Rita Handrich: "We invest a lot of effort to believe we are safe. We see it in mock jurors routinely. They find ways to question the actions of injured parties not realizing (or simply not admitting) that we see things differently when we know the outcome than we do in the moment. It's called hindsight bias. It's one of the most common thinking styles we see in pre-trial research. But these sorts of erroneous, "I am really safe" thinking errors certainly would not happen to those confronted with life and death decisions every day!..."

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Source: The Jury Room, 5 July 2010. Reproduced with permission of Douglas Keene.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on July 07, 2010 (boomark / email).