Pretrial publicity and juror age affect mock-juror decision making

Psychology, Crime and Law

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 179-202

  Ruva, Christine L ^a   Hudak, Elizabeth M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA SARASOTA MANATEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

age; cognitive distortions; juror decision making; memory; pretrial juror bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869466019     PISSN: 1068316X     EISSN: 14772744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1068316X.2011.616509     Document Type: Article

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