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Racial/ethnic disparities of the pact in predicting recidivism and court dispositions for justice-involved youth. 契约在预测涉法青少年累犯和法庭处置方面的种族/族裔差异。
IF 2.5 2区 社会学
Law and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1037/lhb0000533
Nan Li, Sascha Hein, Diana Quintana, Matthew Shelton, Elena L Grigorenko
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Developing consensus for culturally informed forensic mental health assessment: Experts' opinions on best practices. 就有文化依据的法医心理健康评估达成共识:专家对最佳做法的意见。
IF 2.4 2区 社会学
Law and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1037/lhb0000531
Amanda M Fanniff, Taylor York, Renee Gutierrez
{"title":"Developing consensus for culturally informed forensic mental health assessment: Experts' opinions on best practices.","authors":"Amanda M Fanniff, Taylor York, Renee Gutierrez","doi":"10.1037/lhb0000531","DOIUrl":"10.1037/lhb0000531","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Individuals with minoritized identities are overrepresented in legal system contexts; thus, forensic mental health professionals conduct evaluations of examinees with a diversity of identities. Professional and ethical guidelines direct that these evaluations be completed in a culturally informed manner, yet many professionals still identify a need for specific guidance on how to do so. In the present study, we sought to establish consensus regarding best practices in incorporating culture into forensic mental health evaluations.</p><p><strong>Hypotheses: </strong>Given the exploratory nature of this research, no formal hypotheses were tested. We expected that participants would concur that some practices are important to completing culturally informed forensic evaluations.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>We recruited two samples. Nine people with joint expertise in cultural considerations and forensic evaluations participated in a Delphi-type poll. More than half reported a minoritized racial/ethnic identity, and all identified as a man (56%) or woman (44%). Experts were surveyed regarding importance (two rounds) and relevance (one round) of recommended practices. They contributed seven additional relevant practices. Twenty-one board-certified forensic psychologists completed a one-time survey of their perceptions of best practices. These psychologists primarily identified as White (90%), and most did not identify as Hispanic or Latine (80%). They all identified as men (45%) or women (55%). This sample was asked to rate the importance of a list of practices refined during the Delphi-type poll.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The majority of practices were considered important or very important by experts and board-certified psychologists. Consensus is most clear for 28 practices with means, medians, and modes all in the \"important\" to \"very important\" range at all time points.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>There is wide agreement on the importance of particular methods for incorporating cultural considerations in each phase of the forensic evaluation process. Forensic psychologists can use this information to self-evaluate and improve their practice and to inform training. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48230,"journal":{"name":"Law and Human Behavior","volume":"47 3","pages":"385-402"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9648700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Counseling services leading to desistance by way of a change in certainty perceptions and cognitive agency beliefs. 通过改变确定性观念和认知机构信念,咨询服务可导致放弃。
IF 2.5 2区 社会学
Law and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Epub Date: 2023-02-20 DOI: 10.1037/lhb0000525
Glenn D Walters
{"title":"Counseling services leading to desistance by way of a change in certainty perceptions and cognitive agency beliefs.","authors":"Glenn D Walters","doi":"10.1037/lhb0000525","DOIUrl":"10.1037/lhb0000525","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The purpose of this study was to determine whether receiving counseling services reduced future offending in a group of seriously delinquent youths through a process of chaining. In this process, a youth's perceived certainty of punishment and an increase in their cognitive agency or control mediated the services-offending relationship.</p><p><strong>Hypothesis: </strong>The main hypothesis was that where perceptions of certainty preceded cognitive agency beliefs (perceived certainty → cognitive agency), the (target) pathway would be significant, and where cognitive agency beliefs preceded perceptions of certainty (cognitive agency → perceived certainty), the (comparison) pathway would be nonsignificant. The difference between the target and comparison pathways was also predicted to be significant.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>This study modeled change in 1,354 (1,170 boys, 184 girls) justice-involved youths from the Pathways to Desistance study. The number of counseling services accessed by a participant within 6 months of the baseline (Wave 1) interview served as the independent variable, and self-reported offending 12-18 months later (Wave 4) served as the dependent variable. Perceived certainty of punishment and cognitive agency were cross-lagged at Waves 2 and 3 and served as mediators.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Consistent with the research hypothesis, results showed that the total indirect effect from services to delinquency through perceived certainty and cognitive agency was significant, the total indirect effect from services to cognitive agency to perceived certainty was nonsignificant, and the difference between the two effects was significant.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The results of this study suggest that turning points do not have to be major life events to bring about desistance and that chaining in which perceptions of certainty precede cognitive agency beliefs may play a vital role in the change process. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48230,"journal":{"name":"Law and Human Behavior","volume":"47 3","pages":"436-447"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9639200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Developing a model of guilty plea decision-making: Fuzzy-trace theory, gist, and categorical boundaries. 建立认罪决策模型:模糊轨迹理论、要旨和分类界限。
IF 2.4 2区 社会学
Law and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1037/lhb0000532
Tina M Zottoli, Rebecca K Helm, Vanessa A Edkins, Michael T Bixter
{"title":"Developing a model of guilty plea decision-making: Fuzzy-trace theory, gist, and categorical boundaries.","authors":"Tina M Zottoli, Rebecca K Helm, Vanessa A Edkins, Michael T Bixter","doi":"10.1037/lhb0000532","DOIUrl":"10.1037/lhb0000532","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>To date, most research on plea bargaining has used some form of the shadow of the trial (SOT) model to frame defendant decisions. In this research, we proposed and tested a new conceptual model of plea decision-making, based on fuzzy-trace theory (FTT), for the context in which a nondetained, guilty defendant chooses between a guilty plea or trial, where both the plea and potential trial sentence entail incarceration.</p><p><strong>Hypotheses: </strong>We predicted that plea decisions would be affected by (a) meaningful, categorical changes in conviction probability (e.g., low to moderate, moderate to high), as opposed to more granular changes within categories and (b) the presence and magnitude of categorical distinctions between plea offer and potential trial sentence rather than fine-grained differences between individual offers.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>We conducted three vignette-based experiments (Study 1: N = 1,701, Study 2: N = 1,098, Study 3: N = 1,232), using Mechanical Turk participants. In Studies 1 and 2, we manipulated potential trial sentence and conviction probability, asking participants to indicate either the maximum plea sentence they would accept (Study 1) or whether they would plead guilty to a specific offer (Study 2). In Study 3, we manipulated plea discount and potential trial sentence and measured plea acceptance.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Maximum acceptable plea sentences were similar within and different between \"groupings\" of meaningfully similar conviction probabilities (Study 1). Plea rates were similar within and different between groupings that comprised plea offers of similarly meaningful distance from the potential trial sentence (Study 3). The results also provide insight into the plea rates that might be expected under different combinations of the independent variables (Studies 2 and 3).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These results support a new conceptual model of plea decision-making that may be better suited to explaining case-level differences in plea outcomes than the SOT model and suggest that future research extending this model to a wider range of contexts would be fruitful. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48230,"journal":{"name":"Law and Human Behavior","volume":"47 3","pages":"403-421"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9657043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Evidence-based suspicion and the prior probability of guilt in police interrogations. 基于证据的怀疑与警察讯问中有罪的先验概率。
IF 2.5 2区 社会学
Law and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.1037/lhb0000513
Sarah A Moody, Jean J Cabell, Tyler N Livingston, Yueran Yang
{"title":"Evidence-based suspicion and the prior probability of guilt in police interrogations.","authors":"Sarah A Moody,&nbsp;Jean J Cabell,&nbsp;Tyler N Livingston,&nbsp;Yueran Yang","doi":"10.1037/lhb0000513","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000513","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>False confessions are prevalent in wrongful convictions, and much research has examined investigation factors and interrogation methods that can contribute to false confessions. However, not all these factors are under the control of the legal system, and improving the effectiveness of interrogation methods has a limited effect on evaluating the veracity of confessions. We suggest incorporating an important but often-neglected factor in interrogations: suspects' prior probability of guilt (\"the prior,\" a Bayesian term meaning suspects' likelihood of being guilty before police conduct an interrogation).</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>By connecting interrogation practices to probability concepts, we discuss a gap in the literature between questions traditionally answered by lab research and a distinct question faced by the legal system.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>On the basis of our analysis, we argue that police should increase priors by collecting additional evidence to satisfy an evidence-based suspicion of guilt before interrogating suspects.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Implementing the evidence-based suspicion practice can help police reduce false confessions, reallocate investigation time and resources, and assist prosecutors in building strong cases for trial. Likewise, researchers should expand the empirical and legal questions they ask and incorporate priors into their interrogation experiments to improve the generalizability of findings to the criminal justice system. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48230,"journal":{"name":"Law and Human Behavior","volume":"47 2","pages":"307-319"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10333931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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What's risk got to do with it: Judges' and probation officers' understanding and use of juvenile risk assessments in making residential placement decisions. 风险与此有关:法官和缓刑监督官在做出寄宿安置决定时对青少年风险评估的理解和使用。
IF 2.4 2区 社会学
Law and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.1037/lhb0000528
Jeanne McPhee, Kirk Heilbrun, Denise Navarre Cubbon, Mark Soler, Naomi E Goldstein
{"title":"What's risk got to do with it: Judges' and probation officers' understanding and use of juvenile risk assessments in making residential placement decisions.","authors":"Jeanne McPhee, Kirk Heilbrun, Denise Navarre Cubbon, Mark Soler, Naomi E Goldstein","doi":"10.1037/lhb0000528","DOIUrl":"10.1037/lhb0000528","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>This hypothetical vignette-based experiment was designed to better understand judges' and probation officers' interpretations and use of juvenile risk assessment tools in their decision-making around restrictive sanctions and confinement of youths on the basis of the youths' risk level and race.</p><p><strong>Hypotheses: </strong>We expected that estimates of the probability of juvenile recidivism would significantly mediate the relationship between a categorical risk descriptor and decisions regarding the ordering confinement of youths. We also hypothesized that youths' race would serve as a significant moderator in the model.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Judicial and probation staff (N = 309) read a two-part vignette about a youth who was arrested for the first time; in this vignette, race (Black, White) and risk level (low, moderate, high, very high) of the youth were varied. Participants were asked to estimate the likelihood that the youth would recidivate in the following year and their likelihood of ordering or recommending residential placement.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Although we found no simple, significant relationship between risk level and confinement decisions, judicial and probation staff estimated higher likelihoods of recidivism as risk-level categories increased and ordered out-of-home placements at increased rates as their estimations of the youth's likelihood of recidivation increased. The youth's race did not moderate the model.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The greater the probability of recidivism, the more likely each judge or probation officer was to order or recommend out-of-home placement. However, importantly, legal decisionmakers appeared to apply categorical risk assessment data to their confinement decisions using their own interpretations of risk category rather than being guided empirically on the basis of risk-level categories. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48230,"journal":{"name":"Law and Human Behavior","volume":"47 2","pages":"320-332"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10102975/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10334442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Moral appraisals guide intuitive legal determinations. 道德评价指导直觉的法律决定。
IF 2.5 2区 社会学
Law and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.1037/lhb0000527
Brian Flanagan, Guilherme F C F de Almeida, Noel Struchiner, Ivar R Hannikainen
{"title":"Moral appraisals guide intuitive legal determinations.","authors":"Brian Flanagan,&nbsp;Guilherme F C F de Almeida,&nbsp;Noel Struchiner,&nbsp;Ivar R Hannikainen","doi":"10.1037/lhb0000527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000527","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>We sought to understand how basic competencies in moral reasoning influence the application of private, institutional, and legal rules.</p><p><strong>Hypotheses: </strong>We predicted that moral appraisals, implicating both outcome-based and mental state reasoning, would shape participants' interpretation of rules and statutes-and asked whether these effects arise differentially under intuitive and reflective reasoning conditions.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>In six vignette-based experiments (total N = 2,473; 293 university law students [67% women; age bracket mode: 18-22 years] and 2,180 online workers [60% women; mean age = 31.9 years]), participants considered a wide range of written rules and laws and determined whether a protagonist had violated the rule in question. We manipulated morally relevant aspects of each incident-including the valence of the rule's purpose (Study 1) and of the outcomes that ensued (Studies 2 and 3), as well as the protagonist's accompanying mental state (Studies 5 and 6). In two studies, we simultaneously varied whether participants decided under time pressure or following a forced delay (Studies 4 and 6).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Moral appraisals of the rule's purpose, the agent's extraneous blameworthiness, and the agent's epistemic state impacted legal determinations and helped to explain participants' departure from rules' literal interpretation. Counter-literal verdicts were stronger under time pressure and were weakened by the opportunity to reflect.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Under intuitive reasoning conditions, legal determinations draw on core competencies in moral cognition, such as outcome-based and mental state reasoning. In turn, cognitive reflection dampens these effects on statutory interpretation, allowing text to play a more influential role. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48230,"journal":{"name":"Law and Human Behavior","volume":"47 2","pages":"367-383"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9872070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Eyewitness confidence and decision time reflect identification accuracy in actual police lineups. 目击证人的信心和决策时间反映了实际警察指认的准确性。
IF 2.5 2区 社会学
Law and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.1037/lhb0000518
Adele Quigley-McBride, Gary L Wells
{"title":"Eyewitness confidence and decision time reflect identification accuracy in actual police lineups.","authors":"Adele Quigley-McBride,&nbsp;Gary L Wells","doi":"10.1037/lhb0000518","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000518","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Although there are many lab-based studies demonstrating the utility of confidence and decision time as indicators of eyewitness accuracy, there is almost no research on how well these variables function for lineups in the real world. In two experiments, we examined confidence and decision time associated with real lineups that had been conducted using research-based recommendations.</p><p><strong>Hypotheses: </strong>We expected that how confident an eyewitness sounded and how quickly that eyewitness made their identification would be associated with whether that eyewitness identified a suspect or a filler. We also hypothesized that people's interpretations of eyewitness confidence could be easily influenced by additional, biasing information.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Using audio recordings of these lineups, we examined (a) participants' subjective ratings of how confident an eyewitness sounded at the time of the identification and (b) objective data regarding how quickly the eyewitness made the identification decision. We also manipulated what additional information, if any, participants received in Experiment 2.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In both experiments, decision time and confidence predicted whether the eyewitnesses identified the suspect or a known-innocent filler, and when decision time and confidence diverged, it is likely that the eyewitness identified a filler. In Experiment 2, we found that people's interpretations of eyewitness's confidence statements could be biased. When observers believed that the witness picked a filler rather than a suspect, or vice versa, this changed how confident they thought the witness sounded.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Confidence and decision time should both be collected when administering real lineups, but objective decision time data may be the most useful because people's perceptions of confidence are easily altered. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48230,"journal":{"name":"Law and Human Behavior","volume":"47 2","pages":"333-347"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9879607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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An attribution theory-based content analysis of mock jurors' deliberations regarding coerced confessions. 基于归因理论的模拟陪审员逼供审议内容分析。
IF 2.5 2区 社会学
Law and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.1037/lhb0000529
Margaret C Stevenson, Evan McCracken, Ar'Reon Watson, Taylor Petty, Tyler Plogher
{"title":"An attribution theory-based content analysis of mock jurors' deliberations regarding coerced confessions.","authors":"Margaret C Stevenson,&nbsp;Evan McCracken,&nbsp;Ar'Reon Watson,&nbsp;Taylor Petty,&nbsp;Tyler Plogher","doi":"10.1037/lhb0000529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000529","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Because confessions are sometimes unreliable, it is important to understand how jurors evaluate confession evidence. We conducted a content analysis testing an attribution theory model for mock jurors' discussion of coerced confession evidence in determining verdicts.</p><p><strong>Hypotheses: </strong>We tested exploratory hypotheses regarding mock jurors' discussion of attributions and elements of the confession. We expected that jurors' prodefense statements, external attributions (attributing the confession to coercion), and uncontrollable attributions (attributing the confession to defendant naivety) would predict more prodefense than proprosecution case judgments. We also expected that being male, politically conservative, and in support of the death penalty would predict proprosecution statements and internal attributions, which in turn would predict guilty verdicts.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Mock jurors (N = 253, M<sub>age</sub> = 47 years; 65% women; 88% White, 10% Black, 1% Hispanic, 1% listed \"other\") read a murder trial synopsis, watched an actual coerced false confession, completed case judgments, and deliberated in juries of up to 12 members. We videotaped, transcribed, and reliably coded deliberations.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Most mock jurors (53%) rendered a guilty verdict. Participants made more prodefense than proprosecution statements, more external than internal attributions, and more internal than uncontrollable attributions. Participants infrequently mentioned various elements of the interrogation (police coercion, contamination, promises of leniency, interrogation length) and psychological consequences for the defendant. Proprosecution statements and internal attributions predicted proprosecution case judgments. Women made more prodefense and external attribution statements than men, which in turn predicted diminished guilt. Political conservatives and death penalty proponents made more proprosecution statements and internal attributions than their counterparts, respectively, which in turn predicted greater guilt.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Some jurors identified coercive elements of a false confession and rendered external attributions for a defendant's false confession (attributing the confession to the coercive interrogation) during deliberation. However, many jurors made internal attributions, attributing a defendant's false confession to his guilt-attributions that predicted juror and jury inclinations to convict an innocent defendant. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48230,"journal":{"name":"Law and Human Behavior","volume":"47 2","pages":"348-366"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9872072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Supplemental Material for Moral Appraisals Guide Intuitive Legal Determinations 道德评估补充材料指导直观的法律决定
IF 2.5 2区 社会学
Law and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2023-03-16 DOI: 10.1037/lhb0000527.supp
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