David Melnikoff presented "Bayesian and Wishful Thinking are Compatible" (a project with Nina Strohminger):

In case that conclusion doesn't follow from the evidence, here's what they're replicating: people felt better than predicted about the prospect of either prosecuting or defending a defendent, no matter which side they were incentivized to defend.

Preprint (pending revision for Nature Human Behavior): https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/yhmvw

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I am sorry for (and amused by) my latest #typo: "...experimental philosophers (i.e., people who use the stools of cognitive science to study philosophical thinking)".

It's from an earlier draft of my brief answer to, "What is experimental jurisprudence?" https://www.quora.com/What-is-experimental-jurisprudence/answer/Nick-Byrd?ch=10&oid=1477743650165973&share=044ce01f&srid=hCDA&target_type=answer

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