Arbeitspapier
The more the better? Effects of training and information amount in legal judgments
In an experimental study we investigated effects of information amount and legal training on the judgment accuracy in legal cases. In a two (legal training: yes vs. no) x two (information amount: high vs. low) between-subjects design, 90 participants judged the premeditation of a perpetrator in eight real-world cases decided by the German Federal Court of Justice. Judgment accuracy was assessed in comparison with the Court's ruling. Legal training increased judgment accuracy, but did not depend on the amount of information given. Furthermore, legal training corresponded with higher confidence. Interestingly, emotional reactions to the legal cases were stronger when more information was given for individuals without legal training but decreased for individuals with training. This interaction seems to be caused by fundamental differences in the way people construct their mental representations of the cases. We advance an information processing perspective to explain the observed differences in legal judgments and conclude with a discussion on the merits and problems of offering more information to lay people participating in legal decision making.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Preprints of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods ; No. 2010,34
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
- Thema
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Rechtsprechung
Test
Informationsversorgung
Rechtsberufe
Informationsverhalten
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Dickert, Stephan
Herbig, Britta
Glöckner, Andreas
Gansen, Christina
Portack, Roman
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Veröffentlichung
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Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
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Bonn
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2010
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Dickert, Stephan
- Herbig, Britta
- Glöckner, Andreas
- Gansen, Christina
- Portack, Roman
- Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
Entstanden
- 2010
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