The Impact of Gruesome Evidence on Mock Juror Decision Making: The Role of Evidence Characteristics and Emotional Response

Two experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of gruesome evidence on mock jurors? decisions in a simulated capital trial. The first experiment was designed as a replication and extension of Douglas, Lyon, and Ogloff (1997), who found that mock jurors who were presented with gruesome pho...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nemeth, Robert J.
Other Authors: Janet McDonald
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: LSU 2002
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Online Access:http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-1107102-170208/