Judgment is a complex topic.
Generally, the big difference is between prejudgment and formal judgment. Formal
Judgment is based on evidence and reasoning in an explicit set of contexts, etc., jurisdiction, laws, rules, and norms that constitute positive or codified policy.

Prejudgment is based on feelings, sentiments, and nostalgia into which everyone is conditioned or socialized. Feelings or emotions are very powerful determinants of thought and action unless mediation by formal
judgment occurs in the life of the person ... or culture!

Hume’s famous idea that reason serves the passions reflects the problem. Personality in the context of culture is determined by feelings more than reasons, impulses if language more than reflection. The practices or belief systems of cultures have strong elements of prejudgment: bias, prejudice, hatred, discrimination. These kinds of elements or factors may be encoded into the law!

Cognition has been defined as evaluation which is a complex skill involving many aspects: reasons, explanations, evidence, and discourse processes which differentiate prejudgment from formal judgments - the latter requires a factual or empirical basis as distinct from feelings.