"I know him!": Does witness-defendant familiarity impact mock jurors across different aged witnesses and types of crime?

The current study examined whether eyewitness age (5-, 10-, 15-years-old), eyewitness familiarity with the defendant (personally familiar, casually familiar, stranger), and nature of the crime (personal, non-personal) infl uenced jurors' judgments. Undergraduate students (N = 568) read a case s...

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Authors: Pica, Emily (Author) ; Pozzulo, Joanna (Author) ; Sheahan, Chelsea L. (Author) ; Pratt, Keltie (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2019
In: Applied psychology in criminal justice
Year: 2019, Volume: 15, Issue: 2, Pages: 171-184
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Keywords:
child eyewitness
eyewitness age
familiarity
Juror decision making
nature of crime