TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2009//
TI  - Psychological mediators of the effects of opposing expert testimony on juror decisions
JO  - Psychology, public policy, and law
A1  - Levett, Lora M.
A1  - Kovera, Margaret Bull
SP  - 124
EP  - 148
VL  - 15
IS  - 2
N2  - This study examined the effectiveness of the opposing expert safeguard against unreliable expert testimony and whether beliefs about experts as hired guns and general acceptance mediate the effect of opposing expert testimony on juror decisions. We found strong evidence that the presence, but not the content, of opposing expert testimony affected jurors’ trial judgments and that these effects were mediated by mock jurors’ beliefs about general acceptance. The presence of an opposing expert affected jurors’ ratings of the general acceptance of research investigating sexual harassment in the workplace. Jurors’ beliefs about general acceptance then affected jurors’ ratings of plaintiff expert competence and research, which affected juror ratings of the probability that the plaintiff experienced a hostile work environment.<p />
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SN  - 1076-8971
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0016309
ID  - ref1
ER  -