{"pk":29772,"title":"Not as Bad as Painted?\nLegal Expertise, Intentionality Ascription, and Outcome Effects Revisited","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Previous research by Kneer and Bourgeois-Gironde (2017)\nsuggests that legal experts are susceptible to the “severity\neffect” – they ascribe a higher level of intentionality for\nactions if they lead to very bad side-effects than when they\nhave somewhat bad side-effects. These results are potentially\nproblematic for the legal system because ascriptions of\nintentionality in the law explicitly depend on the evaluation of\nmental states of the agent (mens rea), not on the badness of\nthe outcomes she caused. In this paper, we provide and test an\nalternative explanation of the “severity effect” that has no\ntroubling implications for the law. We suggest that it may be\na subtype of a more general “side-effect effect” (Knobe,\n2003), which is compatible with certain legal criteria of\nascribing intentionality.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"severity effect; intentionality; mens rea; criminal\nlaw; legal expertise"}],"section":"Poster Session 2","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/20c41270","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Karolina","middle_name":"","last_name":"Prochownik","name_suffix":"","institution":"Ruhr University Bochum","department":""},{"first_name":"Melina","middle_name":"","last_name":"Krebs","name_suffix":"","institution":"Ruhr University Bochum","department":""},{"first_name":"Alex","middle_name":"","last_name":"Wiegmann","name_suffix":"","institution":"Ruhr University Bochum","department":""},{"first_name":"Joachim","middle_name":"","last_name":"Horvath","name_suffix":"","institution":"Ruhr University Bochum","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2020-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/29772/galley/19626/download/"}]}