The effect of confession evidence on jurors' verdict decisions: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

A Mindthoff, PA Ferreira, CA Meissner - Law and Human Behavior, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: Over the past 4 decades, discrepant research findings have emerged in the juror–
confession literature, prompting the need for a systematic review and meta-analysis that …

The role of social desirability and establishing nonracist credentials on mock juror decisions about Black defendants.

JM Salerno, K Kulak, L Smalarz… - Law and human …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: Recently, experimental work on racial bias in legal settings has diverged from real-
world field data demonstrating racial disparities, instead often producing null or potential …

Race, witness credibility, and jury deliberation in a simulated drug trafficking trial.

EV Shaw, M Lynch, S Laguna… - Law and human behavior, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: The present study integrates several distinct lines of jury decision-making
research by examining how the racial identities of the defendant and an informant witness …

An attribution theory–based content analysis of mock jurors' deliberations regarding coerced confessions.

MC Stevenson, E McCracken, AR Watson… - Law and Human …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: Because confessions are sometimes unreliable, it is important to understand how
jurors evaluate confession evidence. We conducted a content analysis testing an attribution …

The subtle effects of implicit bias instructions

M Lynch, T Kidd, E Shaw - Law & Policy, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Judges are increasingly using “implicit bias” instructions in jury trials in an effort to reduce
the influence of jurors' biases on judgment. In this article, we report on findings from a large …

Jury simulation studies: To exclude or not to exclude participants based on a lack of comprehension of the case?

HJ Cullen, LA Monds - Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Jury simulation research has been the subject of longstanding criticism in regards to
ecological validity. One additional factor that has received little attention that may also …

Race and perceived immorality in stereotypes of criminal subtypes

JJ Avery, DW Oh, J Cooper - Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
In past research on criminal stereotypes, individuals of different races have been
stereotyped as being more likely to commit certain types of crimes. In this article, we draw on …

Battling bias: can two implicit bias remedies reduce juror racial bias?

CL Ruva, EC Sykes, KD Smith, LR Deaton… - Psychology, Crime & …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Two studies examined the effectiveness of the Unconscious Bias Juror (UBJ) video and
instructions at reducing racial bias in Black and White mock-jurors' decisions, perceptions …

Presumed-blind lineup administrators can influence eyewitnesses' identification decisions and confidence.

L Smalarz, H Ireri, JA Fink - Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
An overlooked observation in the literature on double-blind lineups is that double-blind
lineup administrators sometimes engage in behaviors that could influence eyewitnesses …

Judicial Decision-Making. A Survey of the Experimental Evidence

C Engel - A Survey of the Experimental Evidence (August 24 …, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
Judges are human beings. Is their behavior therefore subject to the same effects that
psychology and behavioral economics have documented for convenience samples, like …