The Psychology of Judicial Decision-Making: Ingroup/Outgroup Biases in Juror Verdicts and Sentences

This paper explores a juror-plaintiff relationship to show that biases pertaining to the plaintiff's group status (ingroup vs. outgroup) can affect sentencing decisions with regards to the defendant. We also demonstrate that this bias can be mitigated, or even reversed, by increasing the perceived credibility of the plaintiff.



Citation:

Rod Duclos and Geetanjali Saluja (2015) ,"The Psychology of Judicial Decision-Making: Ingroup/Outgroup Biases in Juror Verdicts and Sentences", in AP - Asia-Pacific Advances in Consumer Research Volume 11, eds. Echo Wen Wan, Meng Zhang, and , Duluth, MN : Association for Consumer Research, Pages: 229-230.

Authors

Rod Duclos, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Geetanjali Saluja, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology



Volume

AP - Asia-Pacific Advances in Consumer Research Volume 11 | 2015



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