Add to ORKGBefore the 1990s controlled research using mock jurors consistently found black defendants guilty more often than white. However, more recently, research has generally failed to find this effect. One explanation is that prejudice has been reduced so much that there is no longer an effect. While there does seem to have been a reduction in overt prejudice, it is unlikely that it has decreased to the point that it does not affect verdicts. A more likely explanation is that strong social norms exist concerning prejudice which result in efforts to avoid being (or appearing) biased. Thus, when motivation to reduce prejudice is salient, mock jurors and perhaps real jurors will display little or no prejudice; but when motivation to reduce prejudic...
Current social and legal constraints tend to preclude the overt expression of racism in America ther...
The present studies compare the judgments of White and Black mock jurors in interracial trials. In S...
Judges are increasingly using “implicit bias” instructions in jury trials in an effort to reduce the...
Before the 1990s controlled research using mock jurors consistently found black defendants guilty mo...
Both Black and White jurors exhibit a racial bias by being more likely to find defendants of a diffe...
In recent years, social injustice and racial bias in the United States has become a main focus withi...
Common wisdom seems to suggest that racial bias, defined as disparate treatment of minority defendan...
This study examined how the defendant’s race and the victim’s social desirability influence sentenci...
Although sociopolitical movements have inhibited overt expressions of racism over the past five deca...
Race matters in the criminal justice system. Black defendants appear to fare worse than similarly si...
Prior research by Kaplan and Miller (1978) suggested that juries are generally influenced less by ex...
Bias in the legal decision making process has been given considerable attention over the last few de...
Courts and commentators routinely assume that “bias” on the jury encompasses any source of influence...
In a time of heightened tension in the United States, we explored how defendant race (White vs. Blac...
Race matters in the criminal justice system. Black defendants appear to fare worse than similarly si...
Current social and legal constraints tend to preclude the overt expression of racism in America ther...
The present studies compare the judgments of White and Black mock jurors in interracial trials. In S...
Judges are increasingly using “implicit bias” instructions in jury trials in an effort to reduce the...
Before the 1990s controlled research using mock jurors consistently found black defendants guilty mo...
Both Black and White jurors exhibit a racial bias by being more likely to find defendants of a diffe...
In recent years, social injustice and racial bias in the United States has become a main focus withi...
Common wisdom seems to suggest that racial bias, defined as disparate treatment of minority defendan...
This study examined how the defendant’s race and the victim’s social desirability influence sentenci...
Although sociopolitical movements have inhibited overt expressions of racism over the past five deca...
Race matters in the criminal justice system. Black defendants appear to fare worse than similarly si...
Prior research by Kaplan and Miller (1978) suggested that juries are generally influenced less by ex...
Bias in the legal decision making process has been given considerable attention over the last few de...
Courts and commentators routinely assume that “bias” on the jury encompasses any source of influence...
In a time of heightened tension in the United States, we explored how defendant race (White vs. Blac...
Race matters in the criminal justice system. Black defendants appear to fare worse than similarly si...
Current social and legal constraints tend to preclude the overt expression of racism in America ther...
The present studies compare the judgments of White and Black mock jurors in interracial trials. In S...
Judges are increasingly using “implicit bias” instructions in jury trials in an effort to reduce the...