TY - JOUR
T1 - An integration of hindsight bias and counterfactual thinking
T2 - Decision- making and drug courier profiles
AU - Robbennolt, Jennifer K.
AU - Sobus, Mark S.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by Grants 5 T32 MH16156-15 and -16 from the National Institutes of Mental Health. These data were first presented at the AP-LS Biennial Conference in February 1996. We would like to thank Brittawni Olson for her research assistance and Dan Bernstein, Steve Penrod, Grant Robbennolt, and two anonymous reviewers for their comments on earlier drafts of this paper.
PY - 1997
Y1 - 1997
N2 - Counterfactual thinking and hindsight bias have each generated separate, substantial bodies of research and provided insight into some areas of legal decision-making. An investigation of the relationship between counterfactual thinking and hindsight bias in a situation in which both are implicated is presented in a legal decision-making context utilizing drug courier profiles and illegal search and seizure. The findings, which demonstrate each of these cognitive processes and show a pattern of results that supports an integrative relationship between them, are discussed in the contexts of social cognition and of legal decision-making. A suggested causal model of decision-making in this context is also presented. Specific implications of these findings for civil actions to remedy illegal searches are discussed.
AB - Counterfactual thinking and hindsight bias have each generated separate, substantial bodies of research and provided insight into some areas of legal decision-making. An investigation of the relationship between counterfactual thinking and hindsight bias in a situation in which both are implicated is presented in a legal decision-making context utilizing drug courier profiles and illegal search and seizure. The findings, which demonstrate each of these cognitive processes and show a pattern of results that supports an integrative relationship between them, are discussed in the contexts of social cognition and of legal decision-making. A suggested causal model of decision-making in this context is also presented. Specific implications of these findings for civil actions to remedy illegal searches are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1023/A:1024879824307
DO - 10.1023/A:1024879824307
M3 - Article
C2 - 9374606
AN - SCOPUS:0030731539
SN - 0147-7307
VL - 21
SP - 539
EP - 560
JO - Law and Human Behavior
JF - Law and Human Behavior
IS - 5
ER -