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Legal thought may have unique value for cognitive science. A primary characteristic of legal thought is its focus on valuation and integration of evidence. Even simple cases typically involve multiple pieces of evidence, each of which has to be evaluated for its implications with respect to the judgment to be made, and all of which have to be integrated to arrive at an overall judgment. In this respect, legal thought is similar to psychological decision theory, which is also concerned with valuation and integration of information.
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Hommers, W., Anderson, N.H. (1989). Algebraic Schemes in Legal Thought and in Everyday Morality. In: Wegener, H., Lösel, F., Haisch, J. (eds) Criminal Behavior and the Justice System. Research in Criminology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-86017-1_9
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