A new study hot off the press addresses “typical judgment errors” in forensic mental health reports (Iudici, Salvini, Faccio, & Castelnuovo (2015).The Clinical Assessment in the Legal Field: An Empirical Study of Bias and Limitations in Forensic Expertise, Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 1831. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01831).
Content analyses of forensic mental health evaluations revealed distortions in the attributions of causality, inferential errors, and epistemological inconsistencies similar to judgment errors made by the “man in the street.”