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Psychologist Daniël Lakens has argued that the size of the effect in the original study is impossibly large. A later analysis and simulations suggested that at least part of the effect might arise from scheduling priorities – that cases with a lenient outcome required more time and so would not be
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was made in 2011. It found that the granting of parole was 65% at the start of a session but would drop to nearly zero before a meal break. The authors suggested that mental depletion as a result of fatigue caused decisions to increasingly favour the status quo, while rest and replenishment then
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is a term originally coined to describe a data pattern that judges' verdicts are more lenient after a meal break. Since the original study, the term has morphed to encompass a stream of research concerned with implications of hunger on economic and social behavior.
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fast. However, the opposite has been observed in experimental studies. Observant participants showed greater kindness while fasting and less so after breaking their fast. Thus, the hungry judge effect is situation specific and impacted by morality triggers.
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More recent studies show that certain legal decisions can get more lenient with increasing case ordering, which might be caused by a direction-of-comparison mechanism rather than decision-makers' fatigue.
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Plonsky, Ori; Chen, Daniel L.; Netzer, Liat; Steiner, Talya; Feldman, Yuval (2023). "Motivational drivers for serial position effects: Evidence from high-stakes legal decisions".
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are usually motivated by the hungry judge effect. However, some argue that the hungry judge effect is overstated in justifying the use of AI in law.
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Shai Danziger; Jonathan Levav; Liora Avnaim-Pesso (26 April 2011), "Extraneous factors in judicial decisions",
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The hungry judge effect was thought to predict greater human kindness after the break of the
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restored a willingness to make bold decisions. The paper, which was published in the
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It has been suggested that this may be an artifact of case scheduling.
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Interventions of AI and algorithms in the court such as
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parole boards
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
cited many times
COMPAS software
Ramadan
"Overlooked factors in the analysis of parole decisions"
Bibcode
2011PNAS..108E.833W
doi
10.1073/pnas.1110910108
PMC
3198355
PMID
21987788


Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Bibcode
2011PNAS..108.6889D
doi
10.1073/pnas.1018033108
PMC
3084045
PMID
21482790
Extraneous factors in judicial decisions
Google Scholar
"Impossibly hungry judges"
Andreas Glöckner
"The irrational hungry judge effect revisited: Simulations reveal that the magnitude of the effect is overestimated"

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