Training to UK Judges by Fatos Selita on Neural and Psychological Processes in Decision Making 

Head of TAGC Law & Ethics and LESIG Co-ordinator, Fatos Selita, an invited speaker at the Judges’ Training Conference 2018, delivered training on Psychology of Decision-Making.

 

Topic: Neural and Psychological Processes in Decision Making

Audience: The talk was attended by over 100 judges from UK Tribunals and Courts.

Date & Venue: March 2018 at Walton Hall, Warwickshire

The talk ‘Neural and Psychological Processes in Decision Making’ covered how human mind is influenced, how these influences affect decision-making, and how to protect from influences (both external and internal) – how to outsmart human mind weaknesses. The talk included:

  • Memory
  • Metaphor
  • Powerful vs. powerless language
  • Attention
  • A number of psychological processes such as Fundamental Attribution Error
  • Influences and litigants in person (unrepresented litigants)
  • Pathways of influences into human mind
  • Undoing penetrated influences
  • Individual differences in traits
  • Impact of genes and environment on traits
  • Distribution of traits
  • Consciousness in decision-making
  • Mental health, and impact on decision-making
  • The extent human mind can update incorrect information (e.g fake news) with correct ones
  • Gene-environment processes
  • Detecting lies
  • Mechanism of dishonesty

 

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