Sitting in Judgment: The Working Lives of Judges

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Alexius is accused of attempting to assassinate the Inquisitor, along with attempted enslavement and apostasy. This judgment will become available if you take Alexius into custody at Redcliffe Castle during the quest ‘In Hushed Whispers.’ Judgment Options Captured as part of the main quest Here Lies the Abyss. Judged for his crimes of conscripting the Grey Wardens to serve Corypheus, and attempted assassination (of the Inquisitor). Captured as part of the Revelations companion quest and either the war table operation Rainier's Release: An Alternative or Thom Rainier's Fate. Judged for his crimes of murder, treason, and impersonation. Jordan, S.; Brimbal, L.; Wallace, D.B.; Kassin, S.M.; Hartwig, M.; Street, C.N.H. A Test of the Micro-Expressions Training Tool: Does It Improve Lie Detection? J. Investig. Psychol. Offender Profiling 2019, 16, 222–235. [ Google Scholar] [ CrossRef] The ANCOVA conducted to determine the effect of posture on accuracy (A’), revealed, in line with the prediction, a statistically significant effect of posture ( F(1, 77) = 5.37, p = 0.023, η P 2 = 0.065, 90% CI (0.01, 0.17)), where participants in the Open condition ( M = 66, SD = 19) outperformed those in the Closed condition ( M = 0.57, SD = 0.21). Empathy was also found to have a statistically significant additive effect ( F(1, 77) = 5.09, p = 0.027, η P 2 = 0.062, 90% CI (0.00, 0.16)).

Levine, T.R.; Serota, K.B.; Shulman, H.; Clare, D.D.; Park, H.S.; Shaw, A.S.; Shim, J.C.; Lee, J.H. Sender Demeanor: Individual Differences in Sender Believability Have a Powerful Impact on Deception Detection Judgments. Hum. Commun. Res. 2011, 37, 377–403. [ Google Scholar] [ CrossRef] Zloteanu, M. Reconsidering facial expressions and deception detection. In Handbook of Facial Expression of Emotion; Freitas-Magalhaes, A., Borod, J., Eds.; FEELab Science Books & Leya: Porto, Portugal, 2020; Volume 3, pp. 238–284. ISBN 978-84-10-74697-8. [ Google Scholar] These Sit in Judgment trials revolve around some of the many side quests you can complete in Dragon Age: Inquisition. The more side quests you do, the more sentences you can pass against the lesser villains of this epic game’s story. Verbalize your verdicts! Chief Movran the Under

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Levine, T.R. New and Improved Accuracy Findings in Deception Detection Research. Curr. Opin. Psychol. 2015, 6, 1–5. [ Google Scholar] [ CrossRef] An important extension of the current paradigm would be to incorporate more interactive designs, as many veracity judgments in forensic settings are done on the basis of face-to-face interactions [ 81]. In an optimistic prediction, the open posture effect may foster an affiliation between the sender and the judge [ 82], leading to similar embodied states (i.e., exchanging information accurately, especially for truth-tellers), activating similar cognitive and affective processes [ 83], enhancing empathy and rapport [ 84], and improving communication. Of note, the posture effects can be bidirectional, influencing both the adopter and the observer, which may produce additional effects of interest, such as increased impression management by liars or less critical appraisals by judges, as proposed by the Interpersonal Deception Theory (IDT) framework [ 85]. Matsumoto, D.; LeRoux, J.; Wilson-Cohn, C.; Raroque, J.; Kooken, K.; Ekman, P.; Yrizarry, N.; Loewinger, S.; Uchida, H.; Yee, A. A New Test to Measure Emotion Recognition Ability: Matsumoto and Ekman’s Japanese and Caucasian Brief Affect Recognition Test (JACBART). J. Nonverbal. Behav. 2000, 24, 179–209. [ Google Scholar] [ CrossRef]

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Machotka, P. Body Movement as Communication. Dialogues Behav. Sci. Res. 1965, 2, 33–66. [ Google Scholar] A repeated-measures ANCOVA was conducted on Posture (Open or Closed) and Stakes (High and Low) while controlling for individual differences in empathy. A marginal main effect of stakes was observed ( F(1, 29) = 4.04, p = 0.053, η P 2 = 0.119) suggesting that the High-Stakes videos ( M = 0.61, SD = 0.16) were easier to classify than the Low-stakes videos ( M = 0.51, SD = 0.21). While judges in the Open posture ( M = 0.59, SD = 0.15) had higher accuracy than judges in the Closed posture ( M = 0.55, SD = 0.11), the difference was not statistically significant ( F< 1, p = 0.335). The Stakes X Posture interaction, while also in the predicted direction—the difference between the Open and Closed posture on accuracy being more pronounced for the High-Stakes videos ( M diff = 5.15%) than the Low-Stakes videos ( M diff = 3.60%)—was not statistically significant ( F< 1, p = 0.948). Empathy was not found to affect the results ( Fs < 1, p = 0.644). Hartwig, M.; Bond, C.F. Lie Detection from Multiple Cues: A Meta-Analysis. Appl. Cogn. Psychol. 2014, 28, 661–676. [ Google Scholar] [ CrossRef] Note: Though this decision states "Agent Acquired", he does not appear in the Inquisition perk list.