Quantum equality in the courtroom
department or school: Arts and Social Sciences, Irving K. Barber Faculty of (Okanagan)
department or school: Psychology, Department of (Okanagan)
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCO
creator: Winslow, Magpie Michael
issued: 2024-04-30T16:17:24Z
issued: 2024
related degree: Master of Arts - MA
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: Survivors of sexual assault are often pitted against their alleged attacker in a contest of credibility. However, there is little research on the relationship between the survivor’s credibility and the attacker’s. The present study in- vestigates this relationship using a model from quantum cognition called the QQ equality. This model predicts that the order of credibility judgements is important and that judgements about the survivor impact the alleged attacker’s credibility to the same degree that judgements about the alleged attacker impact the survivor’s credibility. A sample (n = 1493) of US adults were asked to judge the credibility of statements from both the survivor and attacker in hypothetical cases of sexual assault. Contrary to predictions, there was no effect of judgment order on the perceived credibility of either party. However, correlations between random subsamples did provide evi- dence of the QQ equality. These results suggest that the two judgements neither share a feature space nor exist in separate spaces; instead, they may exist in feature spaces with both unique and shared components. This study’s findings suggest that further research into modelling feature spaces may provide insight into factors impacting a survivor’s perceived credibility.
aggregated CHO: https://circle.library.ubc.ca/rest/handle/2429/88122
note: Quantum Equality in the CourtroombyMagpie Michael WinslowB.Sc., Montana State University, 2021A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OFTHE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OFMASTER OF ARTSinThe College of Graduate Studies(Psychology)THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA(Okanagan)April 2024© Magpie Michael Winslow, 2024The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommendto the College of Graduate Studies for acceptance, a thesis/dissertation en-titled:Quantum Equality in the Courtroomsubmitted by Magpie Michael Winslow in partial fulfilment of the re-quirements of the degree of Master of ArtsDr. Leanne ten Brinke, Irving K. Barber School of Arts and SciencesSupervisorDr. Brian O’Connor, Irving K. Barber School of Arts and SciencesSupervisory Committee MemberDr. Douglas Scott, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UBC VancouverSupervisory Committee MemberDr. Elena Nicoladis, Irving K. Barber School of Arts and SciencesUniversity ExaminerDr. Madeleine Ransom, Simon Fraser UniversityExternal ExamineriiAbstractSurvivors of sexual assault are often pitted against their alleged attackerin a contest of credibility. However, there is little research on the relationshipbetween the survivor’s credibility and the attacker’s. The present study in-vestigates this relationship using a model from quantum cognition called theQQ equality. This model predicts that the order of credibility judgementsis important and that judgements about the survivor impact the allegedattacker’s credibility to the same degree that judgements about the allegedattacker impact the survivor’s credibility. A sample (n = 1493) of US adultswere asked to judge the credibility of statements from both the survivor andattacker in hypothetical cases of sexual assault. Contrary to predictions,there was no effect of judgment order on the perceived credibility of eitherparty. However, correlations between random subsamples did provide evi-dence of the QQ equality. These results suggest that the two judgemen…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2024-05
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0442058
language: eng
degree discipline: Psychology
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
contributor: Ten Brinke, Leanne Marie
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/88122