TY  - JOUR
A1  - Engel, Christoph
A1  - Timme, Sinika
A1  - Glöckner, Andreas
T1  - Coherence-based reasoning and order effects in legal judgments
JF  - Psychology, public policy and law
N2  - According to coherence-based models of legal judgment, individuals form coherent mental representations to make sense of the available evidence. In this process, evidence supporting the emerging assessment is accentuated, resulting in coherence effects. Dependent on specific implementations of coherence-based models, in legal tasks both overweighting of evidence that is presented early (a primacy effect) or late (a recency effect) can be predicted. In two studies (N-1 = 221, N-2 = 332), we investigate coherence effects, order effects, and their interrelation in a mock legal case. We manipulate the order in which the evidence is presented, and whether or not individuals are induced to assess provisionally whether they deem the defendant guilty after seeing half of the evidence (leaning). This leaning manipulation should increase primacy effects. We consistently observed recency effects and no stronger influence of primacy effects when people indicate a leaning. Order and leaning did not influence the magnitude of coherence effects. In contrast to previous findings in consumer research and risky choice tasks, coherence effects did not mediate the effect of the order in which the evidence in legal judgments is presented. If our results hold more generally, coherence-based models of legal judgment might have to be revised to give more weight to recency effects as compared to the typically predicted primacy effects. This revision would have implications for the design of criminal procedure.
KW  - legal judgment
KW  - coherence effects
KW  - primacy and recency effects
KW  - order
KW  - effects
KW  - leaning
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1037/law0000257
SN  - 1076-8971
SN  - 1939-1528
VL  - 26
IS  - 3
SP  - 333
EP  - 352
PB  - American Psychological Association
CY  - Washington
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hein, Johannes
A1  - Murphy, Andrew
T1  - VP-nominalization and the Final-over-Final Condition
JF  - Linguistic inquiry
N2  - The Final-over-Final Condition has emerged as a robust and explanatory generalization for a wide range of phenomena (Biberauer, Holmberg, and Roberts 2014, Sheehan et al. 2017). In this article, we argue that it also holds in another domain, nominalization. In languages that show overt nominalization of VPs, one word order is routinely unattested, namely, a head-initial VP with a suffixal nominalizer. This typological gap can be accounted for by the Final-over-Final Condition, if we allow it to hold within mixed extended projections. This view also makes correct predictions about agentive nominalizations and nominalized serial verb constructions.
KW  - Final-over-Final Condition
KW  - nominalization
KW  - extended projections
KW  - word
KW  - order
KW  - serial verb constructions
KW  - syntax
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00407
SN  - 0024-3892
SN  - 1530-9150
VL  - 53
IS  - 2
SP  - 337
EP  - 370
PB  - MIT Press
CY  - Cambridge
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Proeve, Ralf
T1  - Social order, stability, and certainty violence and social power in early modern history
JF  - Revue de synthèse : revue semestrielle publ. avec le concours du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et du Centre National du Livre
N2  - This article develops a comprehensive critique of historical research focussing on the mutual relations between social power and violence. According to the methodological initial hypothesis, due to the inadequate distinction between indigenious concept (from sources) and heuristic (from reseach) in the historical sciences, there have been very few valuable insights into these relations to date. In order to expand the research focus which is the objective of this article, the analysis draws on the two actor-centric reference systems of "certainty" and "order". The key idea behind this, operationalizing certainty/uncertainty by means of order/disorder, is a promising way of programmatically combining a vertical and horizontal network of relationships of power, violence, certainty, and order.
KW  - social domination
KW  - violence
KW  - heuristic concept
KW  - indigenous concept
KW  - order
KW  - certainty
Y1  - 2014
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11873-014-0263-x
SN  - 0035-1776
SN  - 1955-2343
VL  - 135
IS  - 4
SP  - 385
EP  - 403
PB  - Springer
CY  - Paris
ER  -