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Confronting cognitive "anchoring effect" and "blind spot" biases in federal sentencing: a modest solution for reforming a fundamental flaw/ by Mark W. Bennett.

By: Material type: Continuing resourceContinuing resourceSeries: The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology | ; Vol. 104, No.3Publication details: --Illinois: Northwestern University Press, c2014.Description: pages 489-534ISSN:
  • 00914169
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • BPer.364.05 J82
Summary: Cognitive "anchoring effect" bias, especially related to numbers, like sentencing guidelines ranges, is widely recognized in cognitive psychology as an extremely robust and powerful heuristic. It is a cognitive shortcut that has a strong tendency to undermine judgments by "anchoring" a judgment to an earlier disclosed number, the anchor.
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Cognitive "anchoring effect" bias, especially related to numbers, like sentencing guidelines ranges, is widely recognized in cognitive psychology as an extremely robust and powerful heuristic. It is a cognitive shortcut that has a strong tendency to undermine judgments by "anchoring" a judgment to an earlier disclosed number, the anchor.

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