EQUITY THEORY AND THE LAW: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTS OF BELIEF IN A JUST WORLD ON THE SENTENCING BEHAVIOR OF MOCK JURORS

The effects of selected extra-evidential factors on the decision-making of mock jurors were investigated. The propositions of Equity Theory were employed as a conceptual framework for understanding the dynamics of the judicial process. === The present research was designed to replicate and extend th...

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Other Authors: TOOMB, J. KEVIN.
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Online Access: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/lib/digcoll/etd/3085169