Fatti e controfatti nel ragionamento giudiziario

Risultato della ricerca: Contributo in rivistaArticolo in rivistapeer review

1 Citazioni (Scopus)

Abstract

When reasoning about judicial cases, people often compare reality with its alternatives, what happened with what could or should have happened. While doing this, they may refer to various types of legal and extra-legal norms. In this paper, I review research results on how people engage in counterfactual reasoning in the judicial context. Some studies have shown that the spontaneous use of counterfactual reasoning may produce a biased decision, leading jurors to focus attention on aspects that are not relevant to the legal evaluation of the case at hand. Other studies, however, have suggested that a more controlled use of counterfactual thinking may reduce reference to legally irrelevant norms. These results suggest that instructions and training programmes aimed at fostering the generation and comparison of several counterfactual alternatives may improve the quality of judicial decision making.
Titolo tradotto del contributo[Autom. eng. transl.] Facts and counterfacts in judicial reasoning
Lingua originaleItalian
pagine (da-a)209-220
Numero di pagine12
RivistaSistemi Intelligenti
Volume22
DOI
Stato di pubblicazionePubblicato - 2010

Keywords

  • counterfactual reasoning
  • judicial decision making
  • judicial reasoning

Fingerprint

Entra nei temi di ricerca di 'Fatti e controfatti nel ragionamento giudiziario'. Insieme formano una fingerprint unica.

Cita questo