"These credibility judgments are plainly probative of Herrmann's veracity and could affect a jury's determination as to his willingness to lie to secure a criminal conviction," Judge Guido Calabresi wrote in a two-to-one majority opinion for the panel.
For instance, an individual who possesses the virtue of testimonial justice will be attentive to the possibility that biases and prejudice affect her judgments about a speaker's credibility, and will learn to distrust her credibility judgments when such biases may be operative.
Fricker (2007) argues that to correct for testimonial injustice, hearers need to cultivate the virtue of epistemic justice, which she characterizes as a disposition, rooted in one's testimonial sensibility or second-nature perception of others' credibility, to neutralize the effects of prejudicial stereotypes that would otherwise influence one's credibility judgments.
Therefore, our goal was to explore whether physician sex moderates the effects of patient (distressed) pain behaviors and diagnostic evidence of pathology (EP) on treatment prescriptions and referrals for chronic low-back pain, and to explore the mediating role of pain credibility judgments and psychological attributions on these effects.
Justice Thomas went further to say that by its very nature, polygraph evidence may diminish the jury's role in making credibility judgments.
The focus group findings support this view to some extent, but also highlighted additional features which could impact credibility judgments, for example wide adoption of the service and social media presence would encourage users to try the system.
The battle over the voting system became a test of Mr. Clegg's personal credibility and judgment.
By contrast, the New York Times draws its strength from its credibility and judgment — and also from its rootedness, and from its conventionality.
"Steiger has the credibility and judgment to bring this off, and if they do good work, it will get picked up".
"It is only the people who can do this, especially the most disadvantaged, the victims or families of the victims of crime, who have the credibility to pass judgment".
