Scientists have learned that neuropsychology, social cognition, and cultural factors affect decision-making. Two types of neuro-psychologically rooted bias can impact how we reason, infer and decide. Cognitive bias refers to heuristics, such as anchoring or confirmatory bias, which contribute to oversimplifying complex matters. Implicit bias and cultural bias refers to social attitudes that result in rapid, and involuntary assessments resulting from feelings and attitudes that operate out of our awareness or the lack of understanding of how people whose experiences are different may affect those inferences and decisions.
This 90 mins webinar will explore such biases and research-based debiasing strategies.
Learning Objectives:
Attendees will be able to:
- Understand and manage the threats to fairness, impartiality and neutrality in family law work
- Recognize the need to embrace complexity and consider all relevant family issues rather than a “single story”
- Manage the impact of our own values, experiences, and feelings when formulating conclusions and making recommendations and decisions in family law matters
Legal CPD point allocation: 1 Professional Skills | 0.5 Ethics and Professional Responsibility*
Should you have any queries or require any further information please do not hesitate to email [email protected] or call (08) 6164 0380.
* We are trialling a new webinar platform and process that should enable us to issue legal CPD points for this webinar. If you would like to receive legal CPD points for your attendance, please indicate that during registration and enter your contact information accurately. Please note that as this process is still in trial, we cannot guarantee that you will be issued a CPD certificate at this stage.
