"a small to medium positive association between CRT mean score and reported use of anchoring heuristic (ρ = 0.29, p = 0.04)."
About 50 judges working in #Greece completed a novel Judicial Heuristics Assessment Questionnaire (J-HAQ), a 5-item reflection test, etc.
Judges' reported use of anchoring #heuristics correlated with their reflection test scores.
doi.org/10.3389/fcog...
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Pages 5 and 6 illustrating examples of iterative reflective equilibrium from a language model.
Formal explication of reflective equilibrium and technical pipeline (pages 8 and 10).
Testing results (Table 3) and cross-version comparisons (Table 4) from pages 16 and 17.
Mitigation results (Table 5) and external LLM comparisons (Table 6) with agreement among ChatGLM, Vicuna, and GPT-3.5-Turbo (Figure 6) on pages 18 and 19.
Reflecting on our intuitions and principles until they are logically consistent is hard. Can #AI do it?
Ma et al. explicate #ReflectiveEquilibrium (RE) and test how #LLMs iteratively achieve RE on moral scenarios from the #ETHICS benchmark.
doi.org/10.1145/3722554
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If you want scholars who use #science to address questions in #philosophy, try the #experimentalPhilosophy starter pack:
#xPhi #xJur #BioXPhi #xPoS #xPoR
Results visualized on pages 7 and 9 of the open access paper.
Do people prefer #prison sentence recommendations from humans or from #AI?
Large experiments on people in Japan (N > 3000) found "no preference for deferring to human ...or [to] AI judgments [on] sentencing decisions".
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
#law #xJur #xPhi #psychology
Title, authors, abstract, and teal-world variation in asylum decisions (pages 1 and 2).
How "LLMs can accurately determine local consistency of propositions" (pages 5 and 6).
Upgrading from "Thagard’s classical model of coherence" to "sheaf cohomology" (Pages 7 and 8).
How propositional logic can computational instantiate sheaf cohomology, providing the reflective (system 2) against which intuitive (System 1) output from language models can be revised and the two major challenges in implementing this system (pages 9 and 10).
Judges' asylum decisions vary wildly, violating a "prerequisite for ...legal coherence—to 'treat like cases alike."
This paper shows how #AI and #algorithms can "instantiate a reasonable approximation of a coherence theory of #truth":
https://osf.io/4tjz5_v1
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Two samples of participants (N≅500) who responded to 20 to 40 cases indicated that most people had both textualist and purposivist intuitions (about rules or "laws" like "no shooting animals" and "no smartphones in the classroom").
More data indicating that empathy correlated positively with purposive interpretations and negatively with textualist interpretations.
Other individual difference constructs that predicted variance in how people apply rules: action aversion, outcome aversion, control aversion, and some Big 5 personality constructs.
Implications • People seem to share a single concept of rule that has a dual character in nature. This goes against contemporary worries in jurisprudence that propose purely interpersonal explanations of disagreement in legal interpretation. It also bolds well with recent accounts of philosophical problems, specially Knobe's (forthcoming) • Obama appears to have been right: individual differences in the "breadth of one's empathy" do indeed matter in the application of rules, but much less than whether the rule's text was violated.
Now the #ExperimentalPhilosophy Society session!
@almeida2808.bsky.social presented #xJur data with @lawstuff.bsky.social and Ivar Hannikainen: "Trait #Empathy Predicts Purposivist Rule Application"
Results in image #altText
#openAccess preprint: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
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…a “virtual child pornography vignette (… low in harm, high in disgust) was criminalized more readily than the financial harm vignette (high in harm, low in disgust)”
“and disgust sensitivity was associated with the decision to criminalize”.
doi.org/10.1057/s415...
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Pages 1 and 2 showing title, authors, abstract, introduction, and the beginning of the methods.
Pages 3 and 4 showing the rest of the methods, the recruitment flowchart, and the beginning of the results.
Pages 5 and 6 showing the sample characteristics and some of the discussion.
Pages 7 and 8 showing the results of all three rounds of rating/ranking.
2. “show kindness, patience, non-judgment, and interest in me as a person”
Least important "for feeling respected in research" were results and follow-up.
Find more in the #OpenAccess article: doi.org/10.1186/s129...
#bioethics #medicine #ethics #consent #science #metaScience #philSci #xPhi #xJur
