Effects of an alibi witness's relationship to the defendant on mock jurors' judgments

Law and Human Behavior

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 127-142

  Hosch, Harmon M ^a   Culhane, Scott E ^b   Jolly, Kevin W ^a   Chavez, Rosa M ^a   Shaw, Leslie H ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Alibi witness; Altruism; Juror; Kinship; Testimony

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; CRIME; DECEPTION; DECISION MAKING; FAMILY; FEMALE; FRIEND; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECALL; SOCIOMETRIC STATUS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALTRUISM; CRIME; DECEPTION; FAMILY; FEMALE; FRIENDS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; JUDGMENT; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIOMETRIC TECHNIQUES; TEXAS;

EID: 79960349710     PISSN: 01477307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10979-010-9225-5     Document Type: Article

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