The effects of evidence-based expert testimony on perceptions of child sexual abuse involving recantation [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 Child sexual abuse (CSA) cases involving recantation invoke concerns about children’s reliability. Expert testimony can help explain the complexities of these cases.
Emily Denne +2 more
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The Interactive Effects of Race and Expert Testimony on Jurors’ Perceptions of Recanted Confessions [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 We examined the effect of defendant race and expert testimony on jurors’ perceptions of recanted confessions. Participants (591 jury-eligible community members) read a first-degree murder trial transcript in which defendant race (Black/White) and expert ...
Logan Ewanation, Evelyn M. Maeder
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Juror comprehension of forensic expert testimony: A literature review and gap analysis [PDF]
Forensic Science International: Synergy, 2019 Forensic scientists and commentators including academics and statisticians have been embroiled in a debate over the best way to present evidence in the courtroom.
Heidi Eldridge
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You Understand, So I Understand: How a “Community of Knowledge” Shapes Trust and Credibility in Expert Testimony Evidence [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesSloman and Rabb found support for the existence of the community of knowledge (CK) effect, which occurs when individuals are more likely to report understanding and being able to explain even fake scientific information when told that an expert ...
Ashley C. T. Jones, Morgan R. Haga
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Individual versus group decision making: Jurors' reliance on central and peripheral information to evaluate expert testimony. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 To investigate dual-process persuasion theories in the context of group decision making, we studied low and high need-for-cognition (NFC) participants within a mock trial study.
Jessica M Salerno +2 more
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Providing expert medical testimony [PDF]
Srpski Arhiv za Celokupno Lekarstvo, 2005 This paper represents an effort at making expert medical testimony, one field of the medical profession, more accessible to our junior medical colleagues.
Bajić-Milosavljević Aleksandra +1 more
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International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2023 Victoria Nagy reviews Infanticide: Expert Evidence and Testimony in Child Murder Cases, 1688-1955 by Rachel Dixon.
Victoria Nagy
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Judging Expert Testimony: From Verbal Formalism to Practical Advice
Quaestio Facti, 2020 Appraising the worth of others’ testimony is always complex; appraising the worth of expert testimony is even harder; appraising the worth of expert testimony in a legal context is harder yet. Legal efforts to assess the reliability of expert testimony—I’
Susan Haack
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Strengthening the Position of Expert Witness in Judicial Process
Jurnal Media Hukum, 2020 An expert witness is a person requested to give testimony based on his/her specific expertise in a court trial. Expert testimony is needed to help the judges discovering the truth.
Indriati Amarini, Ratna Kartikawati
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The Work of Expert Testimony: Central Americans, Human Rights Defenders, and Immigration Courts
Maya America, 2020 Anthropologists have worked in legal arenas as experts on civil, criminal, and asylum cases throughout the history of the discipline. Today expert witnesses give opinions on the conditions of countries where immigrants flee, and that work includes ...
Allan F. Burns
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