Georgetown
Tom is a Co-Founder and Managing Director at The Decision Lab. He is interested in the intersection of decision-science and the law, with a focus on leveraging behavioral research to shape more effective public and legal policy. Tom graduated from Georgetown Law with honors. Prior to law school, Tom attended McGill University where he graduated with First Class Honors with majors in Philosophy and Psychology.
An over-reliance on heuristics might cause systemic and predictable biases in judges’ decision-making processes.
The conjunction fallacy occurs because we make the mental shortcut from our perceived plausibility of a scenario to its probability.
Tom Spiegler, Co-Founder and Managing Director at The Decision Lab, joins Nathan Collett to talk about what behavioral science can tell us about the 2020 US election and the state of democracy more generally.
Anchoring is one of the most prevalent and enduring heuristics that we encounter in our daily lives. But do anchors affect how juries make decisions? Or judges for that matter?
Loss aversion is visible across different demographics and even species, having been documented in professional financial traders, taxi drivers, young and old people, and even capuchin monkeys. But are judges affected by loss aversion, too?
