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Arc Your Trial Story

By Dr. Ken Broda Bahm: There are strategies and techniques, and then there are fundamental bedrock principles of human communication. The use of story and narrative structure definitely falls in the later category, perhaps to a greater degree than we’ve previously thought. I’ve written before that stories can show us what’s moral, fill gaps in

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Look Out for Trolls

By Dr. Ken Broda Bahm: If you read articles online and continue into the “comments” section, it doesn’t take long to find them: individuals, usually anonymous, who are engaged in surprisingly hostile and personal exchanges with strangers — and they seem to relish the sport. Who are these people, I’ll often wonder, and what motivates

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Consider the Sacred

By Dr. Ken Broda Bahm: The sacred can sometimes find its way into legal evaluations. Apart from jurors using or quoting the Bible during deliberations (see Miller et al., 2013), sacred values can also take a broader role in the form of moral imperatives we are unwilling to compromise. One researcher (Tetlock, 2003) in a relatively

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