You can’t walk around with your ears open in America without hearing about the “power of positive thinking” – even as a litigator and trial lawyer who lives in the throat of conflict and negativity much of the time. Certainly, part of your job as a trial lawyer is to project confidence in your ability to successfully resolve your client’s case. If you are a successful litigator, though, you probably will not be surprised that psychologist Gabriele Oettingen suggests in her new book, Rethinking the Power of Positive Thinking, that “positive thinking” isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. In

  An important part of persuasion is you as an advocate – how do you come across to others? Are you credible? Do you seem competent? Do you seem confident in your case? And of course, do you look the part? Do you look professional? Do you look good? Do you come across as confident in YOURSELF? Women face particular challenges in the courtroom with regards to dress and image because of the cacophony of conflicting messages about how women should look, dress and be that circulate in our culture. (There are conflicting messages about how men should be too,

In DOAR’s web series “Sidebar,” Jury Consultant Roy Futterman, Ph.D. provides his insights, analysis and commentary on the state of the world from the intersection of the legal system, popular culture and the zeitgeist. Join us for a heady mélange of juries, judges, the nature of consciousness, physics, metaphysics, the multiverse, the Oracle at Delphi, edibles before dinner, something tangentially related to the law, and the illusory feeling of having a self, won’t you? The post Sidebar Ep 6: Will claims of fake news affect jurors’ views of evidence? appeared first on DOAR.