INSIGHTFUL OR WISHFUL: Lawyers' Ability to Predict Case Outcomes

By Jane Goodman-Delahunty, Pär Anders Granhag, Maria Hartwig, Elizabeth F. Loftus. 2010

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Pharmacy, Political Science and International Relations

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• The Effect of Managerial "Style" on the Tone of Earnings Conference Calls ∗ (2012, unknown): “Finally, a recent study by Goodman-Delahunty et al. (2010) finds that on average lawyers are overconfident in predicting the likelihood that they would meet their litigation goals.”
• Improving metacognition in the classroom through instruction, training, and feedback (2016, background): “For example, when lawyers are asked to judge the outcome of a trial, they exhibit overconfidence (Goodman-Delahunty et al. 2010), even those who have been practicing for up to 40 years! The pervasiveness of overconfidence is observed in numerous situations including entrepreneurs starting new busine”