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The effects of deliberations and religious identity on mock jurors’ verdicts

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The authors found that jurors may be biased toward defendants because of their group status or similarities/differences, and that deliberation may minimize bias by forcing jurors to rationalize their decisions.
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Jurors may be biased toward defendants because of their group status or similarities/differences. Deliberation may minimize bias by forcing jurors to rationalize their decisions. In two experiments...

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A Field Study of the Presumptively Biased: Is There Empirical Support for Excluding Convicted Felons from Jury Service?

TL;DR: This article found that a majority of convicted felons harbor a pro-defense/antiprosecution bias and, in this way, differ from eligible jurors generally, and that the strength and direction of convicted felon's group-level pretrial biases are similar to those of other groups of nonfelon jurors.
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Relationships Between Support for the Death Penalty and Cognitive Processing: A Comparison of Students and Community Members

TL;DR: Cognitive Experiential Self-Theory (CEST) as discussed by the authors posits that individuals process information rationally (measured by Need for Cognition [NFC]) or experientially (Measured by Faith in Intuition [FI]).
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How reason for surgery and patient weight affect verdicts and perceptions in medical malpractice trials: A comparison of students and jurors

TL;DR: This paper found that patients who had undergone elective surgery were seen as more responsible for their situation and their doctors were assigned less responsibility than those who had had undergone a medically necessary surgery.
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Convicts in Court: Felonious Lawyers Make a Case for Including Convicted Felons in the Jury Pool

James M. Binnall
- 01 Jan 2013 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a review of state and federal laws that permanently prohibit convicted felons from taking part in the adjudicative process of the criminal justice system, including serving on a jury.
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A mixed method investigation of the factors that influence juror interpretation of forensic science testimony presented for the prosecution in nine homicide trials in the United States

TL;DR: This document breaches copyright law and should be removed from the public portal immediately.
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A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance

TL;DR: Cognitive dissonance theory links actions and attitudes as discussed by the authors, which holds that dissonance is experienced whenever one cognition that a person holds follows from the opposite of at least one other cognition that the person holds.
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The Ultimate Attribution Error: Extending Allport's Cognitive Analysis of Prejudice

TL;DR: In this paper, Allport's The Nature of Prejudice is extended with an application from attribution theory and an "ultimate attribution error" is proposed: when prejudiced peonle perceive what they regard as a negative act by an outgroup member, they will more than others attribute it dispositionally, often as genetically determined, in comparison to the same act by a ingroup member.
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Social Identity Theory: Constructive and Critical Advances

TL;DR: An introduction to the social identity approach, Dominic Abrams and Michael A.Hogg self-categorization and social identity, Michael A Hogg and Craig McCarthy social motivation, self esteem and social identities as mentioned in this paper.
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The Handbook of Attitudes

TL;DR: The authors presents, synthesizes, and integrates the existing knowledge of methods, theories, and data in attitudes in attitudes, and features an innovative chapter on implicit versus explicit attitudes with contributions from the top specialists, some who have never before worked together.
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The “Black Sheep Effect”: Extremity of judgments towards ingroup members as a function of group identification

TL;DR: The authors proposed an extension to the phenomenon of ingroup favoritism, based on the hypothesis that judgments about ingroup members may be more positive or more negative than judgments about similar outgroup members.
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