Stealing thunder as a courtroom tactic revisited: Processes and boundaries

Law and Human Behavior

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 267-287

  Dolnik, Lara ^a   Case, Trevor I ^b   Williams, Kipling D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Change of meaning; Juror decisions; Persuasion trial tactics; Stealing thunder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COURT; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GUILT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; STEALING THUNDER TACTIC;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CRIMINAL LAW; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GUILT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0038464677     PISSN: 01477307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023431823661     Document Type: Article

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