Rethinking the probative value of evidence: Base rates, intuitive profiling, and the "postdiction" of behavior

Law and Human Behavior

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 133-158

  Davis, Deborah ^a   Follette, William C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; CRIME; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GUILT; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; JURISPRUDENCE; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; REVIEW; STEREOTYPY; UNITED STATES; ARTICLE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; EXPERT WITNESS; FEMALE; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; EXPERT TESTIMONY; EXTRAMARITAL RELATIONS; FEMALE; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; MALE; PROBABILITY; STEREOTYPING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036547188     PISSN: 01477307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1014693024962     Document Type: Review

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