This bibliography features contributions on the role of intuition and expertise in reasoning and decision making, both in general and in the
legal domain. While the readings of Unit 1 are mainly focused on intuition as a source of biases, most of the titles gathered here are focused on the role of intuition in normatively correct reasoning and decision making.

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Intuition: A fundamental bridging construct in the behavioural sciences
The concept of intuition has, until recently, received scant scholarly attention within and beyond the psychological sciences, despite its potential to unify a number of lines of inquiry. Presently, ...

 
Beyond dual-process models: A categorisation of processes underlying intuitive judgement and ...
(2010). Beyond dual-process models: A categorisation of processes underlying intuitive judgement and decision making. Thinking & Reasoning: Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 1-25.

 
Environments That Make Us Smart: Ecological Rationality - Peter M. Todd, Gerd Gigerenzer, 2007
Traditional views of rationality posit general-purpose decision mechanisms based on logic or optimization. The study of ecological rationality focuses on uncove...

 
Heuristics
"Heuristics" published on by Oxford University Press.

 
Methods of legal reasoning | SpringerLink
The book attempts to describe and criticize four methods used in legal practice, legal dogmatics and legal theory: logic, analysis, argumentation and hermeneutics. Apart from a presentation of basic i

 
Bartosz Brożek, The Legal Mind: A New Introduction to Legal Epistemology - PhilPapers
How does a lawyer think? Does legal intuition exist? Do lawyers need imagination? Why is legal language so abstract? It is no longer possible to answer these questions by applying philosophical ...

 
Judicial Decision-Making
"Judicial Decision-Making" published on by Oxford University Press.

 
Is There a Psychology of Judging?
Psychologists have recently begun to study the psychological dimensions of judging, but to date almost all of the research has been on lay experimental subjects. Implicit in the research, therefore, ...

 
Judging the Judiciary by the Numbers: Empirical Research on Judges
Download Citation | Judging the Judiciary by the Numbers: Empirical Research on Judges | Do judges make decisions that are truly impartial? A wide range of experimental and field studies reveal that ...

 
(PDF) Playing Dice With Criminal Sentences: The Influence of Irrelevant Anchors on Experts' ...
PDF | Judicial sentencing decisions should be guided by facts, not by chance. The present research however demonstrates that the sentencing decisions of... | Find, read and cite all the research you ...

 
Bailing and jailing the fast and frugal way
Legal decisions such as the decision to bail upon adjourning a case have major consequences for both defendants and society. In the English system, magistrates, most of whom are lay people, are ...

 
Not-So-Easy Cases
Download Citation | Not-So-Easy Cases | The distinction between easy and hard cases is well known from the work of Ronald Dworkin. Dworkin focuses primarily on the challenges posed by... | Find, read ...

 
(PDF) ‘They Saw a Protest’: Cognitive Illiberalism and the Speech-Conduct Distinction
PDF | “Cultural cognition” refers to the unconscious influence of individuals’ group commitments on their perceptions of legally consequential facts. We... | Find, read and cite all the ...

 
The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance
In this updated and expanded edition of The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance, some of the world's foremost experts on expertise share their scientific knowledge of ...

 
(PDF) If You Judge, Investigate! Responsibility Reduces Confirmatory Information Processing in ...
PDF | Fair and well justified judicial decisions require that judges evaluate and interpret all relevant facts. However, heuristics and other shortcuts... | Find, read and cite all the research you ...

 
Frontiers | How Do Legal Experts Cope With Medical Reports and Forensic Evidence? The Experiences, ...
Expert scientific knowledge, including medical knowledge, is relevant for the legal profession and can strongly influence rulings and sentencing in criminal law, civil law and insurance law. The way ...

 
(PDF) Conditions for Intuitive Expertise A Failure to Disagree
PDF | This article reports on an effort to explore the differences between two approaches to intuition and expertise that are often viewed as... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ...

 
(PDF) The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance
PDF | The theoretical framework presented in this article explains expert performance as the end result of individuals' prolonged efforts to improve... | Find, read and cite all the research you ...

 
(PDF) Deliberate practice: Is that all it takes to become an expert?
PDF | Twenty years ago, Ericsson, Krampe, and Tesch-Römer (1993) proposed that expert performance reflects a long period of deliberate practice rather... | Find, read and cite all the research you ...

 
(PDF) Intuition in insight and nonsight problem solving
PDF | People’s metacognitions, both before and during problem solving, may be of importance in motivating and guiding problem-solving behavior. These... | Find, read and cite all the research you ...

 
Frontiers | Intuition and Insight: Two Processes That Build on Each Other or Fundamentally Differ? ...
Intuition and insight are intriguing phenomena of non-analytical mental functioning: Whereas intuition denotes ideas that have been reached by sensing the solution without any explicit representation ...

 
[PDF] Deep Learning - How the Mind Overrides Experience | Semantic Scholar
Part I. Introduction: 1. The need to override experience 2. The nature of the enterprise Part II. Creativity: 3. The production of novelty 4. Creative insight: the redistribution theory 5. Creative ...

 
Louder Than Words
Whether it's brusque, convincing, fraught with emotion, or dripping with innuendo, language is fundamentally a tool for conveying meaning -- a uniquely human...