Reducing the effects of juror bias

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 1978, Pages 1443-1455

  Kaplan, Martin F ^a   Miller, Lynn E ^b  

^a Northern Illinois U ^*  (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

increase of reliability ; juror annoyance followed by deliberation period, jury bias reduction, college student mock jurors selected for harshness or leniency towards criminals; trustworthiness of trial evidence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001328698     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.36.12.1443     Document Type: Article

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