Welcome to Tips and Tricks for Combatting Confirmation Bias in Legal Practice . This course covers 3 modules: Defining Confirmation Bias: What It Is and the Psychology Behind It; Confirmation Bias in Legal Practice: Impacts and Tips for Recognizing It; and Disrupting Confirmation Bias: Best Practices and Case Studies. Each module includes video lessons, key-takeaway readings, a practice quiz, and a hands-on activity. By the end, you'll be able to define confirmation bias and the psychological mechanisms (selective exposure, motivated reasoning, anchoring) that produce it. You'll also identify how confirmation bias shows up in legal practice — case theory development, evidence weighing, witness interviewing — and the impacts it produces. Key milestones: Module practice quizzes (formative) · Module activities (AI-graded) · Coach Dialogue (final module) · Peer Review assignment · Final assessment (15 questions, 80% passing). How to engage: Watch the lesson video at your own pace. Read the...

Combatting Confirmation Bias in Legal Practice
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Combatting Confirmation Bias in Legal Practice

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September 2026
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