Juror perceptions of incentivized informant testimony

The limited existing research on how jurors evaluate informant testimony suggests jurors may not be appropriately responsive to cues that could signal informant unreliability. In particular, jurors may fail to account for and properly weigh evidence that an informant is testifying for an incentive w...

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Main Author: Shaw, Emily (Author)
Contributors: Lynch, Mona Pauline ; Scurich, Nicholas
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2024
In: Psychology, crime & law
Year: 2024, Volume: 30, Issue: 10, Pages: 1378-1396
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Keywords:
witness testimony
fundamental attribution error
Incentives
Informants
Juror perceptions

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