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CONFIRMATION BIAS: AN ENEMY OF OBJECTIVITY IN FORENSIC MENTAL HEALTH ASSESSMENTS.
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Confirmation bias in forensic mental health evaluation now has a consolidated treatment in the legal-medicine literature that names anchor, adversarial and observer bias as its forensic variants and catalogues the countermeasures — material that cross-examining counsel and opposing experts can draw on when an evaluator's exposure to contextual information is in issue, though the article states no standard and changes no obligation.