11 - 13 FEBRUARY 2019 SCANDICCI, Villa Castelpulci, Via di Castelpulci, 43

EJTN CATALOGUE PLUS SEMINAR

PSYCHOLOGY AND THE COURT – CP/2019/36

With financial support from the Justice Programme of the European Union The course will focus on a deeper understanding of the neuroscience, of whether and how emotions, mental psychological aspects of court work. The judge arrives at a processes of an intuitive nature or prejudices can influence formulation of the judgement through a process of complex the very perception of the reality of the trial, the reasoning, characterised by a perception of the facts, the appreciation of evidence and the of judgment. right sequencing of the events, their coordinated analysis, In short, it is a question of verifying how psychology can up to their final synthesis. To do this, the judge must be help the judge to avoid errors in his own reasoning. "third" party and therefore clearly neutral, but at the same It is therefore necessary to reflect in depth on the mental time live and "feel" in a social dimension, so to distance path underlying the decision, and on the judgment, which himself from reality, though at the same time not to often also involves the relationship with public opinion. separate from it. And reality is never objectively With the support of experts in psychology and cognitive defined: its knowledge is the result of a complex sciences, we will reflect on the best possible way to manage relationship, in which many factors, mainly subjective, the energies correlated with judgment, we will see how come into play: in short, the subjectivity of the judge, his motivations, intuitive and controlled cognitive processes, personality, his emotions, his psyche. and emotions affect the perception of the reality of the Hence the purpose of the course, is to achieve a deepened trial, the appreciation of evidence and the decision. understanding, with the help of cognitive sciences and

AGENDA

MONDAY 11 February 2019 14.45 Arrival and registration of participants 15.00 Official opening of the seminar Activity Coordinator: Luca PERILLI Scientific Trainer: Patrizia CATELLANI

First Session: The fundamentals

15.30 Psychology of Judicial Reasoning Leslie ELLIS

16.10 Debate

16.40 The memory of witnesses Giuliana MAZZONI

17.20 Debate

17.50 End of day 1 TUESDAY 12 February 2019

Second Session: Implications for the work of the judge

9.00 The impact of heuristics in separation and divorce measures Carlo BONA

9.40 Understanding and evaluating scientific evidence Giuseppe GENNARI

10.20 Debate 10.50 Break 11.10 Strategies for a good decision Giovanni TUZET

11.50 Predictive justice and mutations in judging Emanuela FRONZA

12.30 Debate 13.00 Lunch Break

Third Session: Working groups

14.30 Division in three groups, based on the participants’ thematic options and on the following topics:

a) Architecture of the decision-making process: evidence and Giovanni TUZET interpretation issues

b) The memory of the witness, assessment and decision Giuliana MAZZONI

c) Heuristics and bias in the judicial reasoning Leslie ELLIS 17.00 End of Day 2 WEDNESDAY 13 February 2019

Fourth Session: Stereotypes and prejudices

9.00 A natural unmade-up woman. Representations of gender- Mario Vittorio GRIMOLDI based violence in technical advice in civil matters

9.40 Fragile persons, demand for rights and judicial decisions: the Alberto GUARISO cases of anti-discrimination actions and international protection

10.20 Debate 11.00 Break

11.40 Fifth Session: Psychoforensic guidelines Guglielmo GULOTTA

12.20 Debate

12.50 End of activities and lunch

EXPERTS

Luca PERILLI Activity Coordinator Patrizia CATELLANI Scientific Trainer Leslie ELLIS, psychologist, Director of DecisionQuest Giuliana MAZZONI, University of Hull Carlo BONA, University of Trento Giuseppe GENNARI, First Instance Court Giovanni TUZET, Bocconi University Milan Emanuela FRONZA, Università degli Study Bologna, Mauro Vittorio GRIMOLDI, psychologist Alberto GUARISO, member of the Milan Bar Guglielmo GULOTTA Lawyer, Former Professor of Legal Psychology, University of

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