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Santamaría-García H, Cotrina JM, Torres NF, Buitrago C, Aponte-Canencio DM, Caicedo JC, Billeke P, Gantiva C, Baez S. Explicit and implicit markers of fairness preeminence in criminal judges. Sci Rep 2021; 11:17599. [PMID: 34475479 PMCID: PMC8413340 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-96962-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2021] [Accepted: 07/28/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Abstract
Achieving justice could be considered a complex social decision-making scenario. Despite the relevance of social decisions for legal contexts, these processes have still not been explored for individuals who work as criminal judges dispensing justice. To bridge the gap, we used a complex social decision-making task (Ultimatum game) and tracked a heart rate variability measurement: the square root of the mean squared differences of successive NN intervals (RMSSD) at their baseline (as an implicit measurement that tracks emotion regulation behavior) for criminal judges (n = 24) and a control group (n = 27). Our results revealed that, compared to controls, judges were slower and rejected a bigger proportion of unfair offers. Moreover, the rate of rejections and the reaction times were predicted by higher RMSSD scores for the judges. This study provides evidence about the impact of legal background and expertise in complex social decision-making. Our results contribute to understanding how expertise can shape criminal judges' social behaviors and pave the way for promising new research into the cognitive and physiological factors associated with social decision-making.
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Affiliation(s)
- Hernando Santamaría-García
- Área Salud, Conocimiento Médico y Sociedad, Centro de Investigaciones sobre dinámica Social. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas, Universidad Externado de Colombia, Calle 12 #1-17 Este, 111711, Bogotá, Colombia.
| | - Jorge Martínez Cotrina
- Área Salud, Conocimiento Médico y Sociedad, Centro de Investigaciones sobre dinámica Social. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas, Universidad Externado de Colombia, Calle 12 #1-17 Este, 111711, Bogotá, Colombia
| | - Nicolas Florez Torres
- Área Salud, Conocimiento Médico y Sociedad, Centro de Investigaciones sobre dinámica Social. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas, Universidad Externado de Colombia, Calle 12 #1-17 Este, 111711, Bogotá, Colombia
| | - Carlos Buitrago
- Área Salud, Conocimiento Médico y Sociedad, Centro de Investigaciones sobre dinámica Social. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas, Universidad Externado de Colombia, Calle 12 #1-17 Este, 111711, Bogotá, Colombia
| | - Diego Mauricio Aponte-Canencio
- Área Salud, Conocimiento Médico y Sociedad, Centro de Investigaciones sobre dinámica Social. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas, Universidad Externado de Colombia, Calle 12 #1-17 Este, 111711, Bogotá, Colombia
| | - Juan Carlos Caicedo
- Área Salud, Conocimiento Médico y Sociedad, Centro de Investigaciones sobre dinámica Social. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas, Universidad Externado de Colombia, Calle 12 #1-17 Este, 111711, Bogotá, Colombia
| | - Pablo Billeke
- Laboratorio de Neurociencia Social y Neuromodulación, Centro de Investigación en Complejidad Social (neuroCICS), Facultad de Gobierno, Universidad del Desarrollo, 7590943, Santiago, Chile
| | - Carlos Gantiva
- Departamento de Psicología, Universidad de los Andes, Cra. 1 #18a 12, 111711, Bogotá, Colombia
| | - Sandra Baez
- Departamento de Psicología, Universidad de los Andes, Cra. 1 #18a 12, 111711, Bogotá, Colombia.
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