NDLI: Forensic experts' perceptions of expert bias.

Content Provider	World Health Organization (WHO)-Global Index Medicus
Author	Commons, Michael Lamport Miller, Patrice Marie Li, Eva Yujia Gutheil, Thomas Gordon
Spatial Coverage	Massachusetts
Description	Country affiliation: United States Author Affiliation: Commons ML ( Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. commons@tiac.net)
Abstract	How do expert witnesses perceive the possible biases of their fellow expert witnesses? Participants, who were attendees at a workshop at the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law were asked to rate for their biasing potential a number of situations that might affect the behavior of an opposing expert. A Rasch analysis produced a linear scale as to the perceived biasing potential of these different kinds of situations from the most biasing to the least biasing. Working for only one side in both civil and criminal cases had large scaled values and also were the first factor. In interesting contrast, a) an opposing expert also serving as the litigant's treater and b) an opposing expert being viewed as a 'hired gun' (supplying an opinion only for money) were two situations viewed as not very biasing. Order of Hierarchical Complexity also accounted for items from the 1st, 2nd and 3rd factors. The result suggests that the difficulty in understanding the conceptual basis of bias underlies the perception of how biased a behavior or a situation is. The more difficult to understand the questionnaire item, the less biasing its behavior or situation is perceived by participants.
File Format	HTM / HTML
ISSN	01602527
Issue Number	5-6
Volume Number	35
e-ISSN	18736386
Journal	International Journal of Law and Psychiatry
Language	English
Publisher	Elsevier
Publisher Date	2012-09-01
Publisher Place	Netherlands
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Discipline Jurisprudence Discipline Psychiatry Expert Testimony Legislation & Jurisprudence Forensic Psychiatry Prejudice Criminal Law Factor Analysis, Statistical Humans Massachusetts Journal Article
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Law Pathology and Forensic Medicine Psychiatry and Mental Health

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