Jurymen Seldom Rule Against a Person That They Like: The Relationship Between Emotions Towards a Defendant, the Understanding of Case Facts, and Juror Judgments in Civil Trials.

Hannah J Phalen, Taylor C Bettis, Samantha R Bean, Jessica M Salerno

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Article in Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Diverging Decisions? A Comparison of Jury Verdict Procedures.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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4 authors.

Hannah J PhalenDepartment of Psychology, University of Wyoming, 1000 E University Ave, Laramie, WY 82071, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3165-3373

Taylor C BettisDepartment of Psychology, University of Kentucky, 503 Library Dr, Lexington, KY 40508, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5853-8300

Samantha R BeanSchool of Interdisciplinary Forensics, Arizona State University, 4701 W Thunderbird Rd, Glendale, AZ 85306, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9838-218X

Jessica M SalernoSchool of Interdisciplinary Forensics, Arizona State University, 4701 W Thunderbird Rd, Glendale, AZ 85306, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7394-6444

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Legal actors often discuss emotion-based decisions and reasoned evaluation of the facts as distinct and opposite methods through which jurors can reach conclusions. However, research suggests that emotion can have an indirect effect on juror decisions by changing the way that jurors evaluate the facts of the case. In three studies (

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civil jurycoherence-based reasoningemotionjuror decision-makingsocial cognition

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PMID40723748

DOI10.3390/bs15070965

PMCPMC12292101

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