Judging Guilt: Implicit Evaluations of Defendants Predict Verdicts

Cognitive jurisprudence research that has used indirect measures has mostly focused on how people’s implicit biases (e.g., race) predict people’s verdicts for an individual belonging to an out-group. We aim to expand on this work by investigating implicit evaluations’ predictive strength for verdict...

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Published in:Social psychological & personality science 2024-05, Vol.15 (4), p.471-481
Main Authors: Korkmaz, Arin, Mann, Thomas C., Eibelman, Joshua, Sommers, Roseanna, Ferguson, Melissa J.
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Court decisions
Defendants
Group identity
Guilt
Impression formation
Jurisprudence
Jurors
Murders & murder attempts
Race
Racial bias
Social cognition
Witnesses
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Impression formation
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Jurors
Murders & murder attempts
Race
Racial bias
Social cognition
Witnesses
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