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2 Klayman, J., "Varieties of Confirmation Bias," Psychology of Learning and
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3 Nickerson, R. S., "Confirmation Bias: A Ubiquitous Phenomenon in Many
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4 See, e.g., Lidén, M., Gräns, M. & Juslin, P., "From Devil's Advocate to Crime
Fighter: Confirmation Bias and Debiasing Techniques in Prosecutorial
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5 Of course, the lawyer in this situation cannot ethically proceed with filing
a lawsuit if there is no non-frivolous basis for the suit. See D.C. Rule 3.1
(Meritorious Claims and Contentions) ("A lawyer shall not bring or defend a
proceeding, or assert or controvert an issue therein, unless there is a basis in
law and fact for doing so that is not frivolous . . . ."). That said, Comment [2] to
Rule 3.1 notes that if the lawyer can make a good faith argument in support
of his or her client's position, then the action is not frivolous "even though
the lawyer believes that the client's position ultimately will not prevail." See
also Model Rule of Prof'l Conduct R. 3.1.
6 Arkes, H. R. & Blumer, C., "The Psychology of Sunk Cost," Organizational
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Draft Order Affects Playing Time and Survival in Professional Basketball,"
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9 Madden, G. & Bickel, W., ed., "Impulsivity: The Behavioral and Neurological
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Events," Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 4(3),
pp. 250-266 (1978); Holt, D. H., Green, L., Myerson, J. & Estle, S. J., "Preference
Reversals With Losses," Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 15, pp. 89-95 (2008).
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and Probabilistic Losses Over a Wide Range of Amounts," Journal of the
Experimental Analysis of Behavior 101(2), pp. 186-200 (2014), available at doi.
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12 Lidén, M., Gräns, M. & Juslin, P., "From Devil's Advocate to Crime Fighter:
Confirmation Bias and Debiasing Techniques in Prosecutorial DecisionMaking," Psychology, Crime & Law (2018), available at tandfonline.com/doi/full
/10.1080/1068316X.2018.1538417.
13 Petty, R. E. & Cacioppo, J. T., "The Elaboration Likelihood Model of
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(1986).
14 Gino, F., "Do We Listen to Advice Just Because We Paid for It? The Impact of
Advice Cost on Its Use," Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
107(2), pp. 234-245 (2008), available at sciencedirect.com/science/article/
abs/pii/S0749597808000435.
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