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The Presumption of Guilt in Suspect Interrogations: Apprehension as a Trigger of Confirmation Bias and Debiasing Techniques

Law and Human Behavior, 2018
This research tests whether a police officer’s decision to apprehend a suspect triggers confirmation bias during an interrogation. The study also tests two strategies to reduce confirmation bias: (1) decoupling decision to apprehend from interrogation ...
Moa Lidén, Minna Gräns, P. Juslin
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The Presumption

This powerful book on racism in the United States argues that a threatening narrative originating in slavery continues to link Black people to inferiority, dangerousness, and crime, causing them to be presumed guilty by society and U.S.
D. M. Jones
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The presumption of consciousness

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2014
AbstractThroughout this article the authors presume – without justification – that decision making must be a conscious process unless proved otherwise, and they place an unreasonably strict burden of proof on anyone wishing to claim a role for unconscious processing.
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Between Presumption and Despair: Augustine's Hope for the Commonwealth

American Political Science Review, 2018
Many political theorists dismiss Augustine as a pessimist about politics, assuming his “otherworldly” account of love precludes hope for this-worldly politics.
M. Lamb
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Factors for Evaluating Presumptions and Presumptive Inferences

Argumentation, 2018
Lilian Bermejo-Luque has posed these questions: Cohen’s method of relevant variables, Toulmin’s model, and Rescher’s theory of plausibility suggest answers.
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The Presumption of Nothingness

Ratio, 2001
Several distinguished philosophers have argued that since the state of affairs where nothing exists is the simplest and least arbitrary of all cosmological possibilities, we have reason to be surprised that there is in fact a non‐empty universe. We review this traditional argument, and defend it against two recent criticisms put forward by Peter van ...
Erik J Olsson, Erik Carlson
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Presumption of mental health, presumption of innocence and presumption of legal sanity

Russian Journal of Psychiatry, 2021
S.N. Shishkov, S.V. Polubinskaya, N.V. Skibina   +2 more
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The Rules of Presumption

2018
On 12th February 2014 in Hebei Province, a joint action was taken by the local Commission for Discipline Inspection, the local Procuratorate and the PSB to arrest Ma Chaoqun, a deputy researcher in the Urban Management Department of Qinghuangdao city and also General Manager of Beidaihe Water Company.
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The presumption of movement

Axiomathes, 2007
The conceptualisation of movement has always been problematical for Western thought, ever since Parmenides declared our incapacity to conceptualise the plurality of change because our self-identical thought can only know an identical being. Exploiting this peculiar feature and constraint on our thought, Zeno of Elea devised his famous paradoxes of ...
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Presumption as a Modal Qualifier: Presumption, Inference, and Managing Epistemic Risk

, 2017
D. Godden
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