Predecisional distortion is jurors' biased interpretation of new evidence to support whichever verdict is tentatively favored as a trial progresses. In 2 experiments, students and prospective jurors distorted evidence from a mock trial. Further, the magnitude of prospective jurors' distortion was twice that of students. Consistent with previous research, distortion increased with juror confiden...

Judgment aggregation is the subject of a growing body of work in economics, political science, philosophy and related disciplines. Although the literature on judgment aggregation has been in‡uenced by earlier work in social choice theory, the recent interest in the problem was sparked by the so-called ‘doctrinal paradox’in law and economics (Kornhauser and Sager 1986). Suppose a three-member co...

The present study examined the influence of physical evidence in support of an alibi, type of crime, and alibi salaciousness on the verdict, sentencing, and credibility perceptions of 317 undergraduate mock jurors who read fabricated police and court summaries. Alibis substantiated by physical evidence were accompanied by fewer guilty verdicts, higher believability, and more positive character ...

--------------------------------------------------------------------ABSTRACT-----------------------------------------------------------------The fuzzy logic and expert system is an important technique to enhance the machine learning reasoning. In this paper, we propose a fuzzy expert system framework which constructs large scale knowledge based system effectively for diabetes. The knowledge is ...