Empirical research on discrimination is faced with crucial problems stemming from the
specific character of its object of study. In democratic societies the communication of …

Tolerance is valuable in the development of any US community. Individuals of varying
religious beliefs, political leanings, and sexual orientations constitute communities. These …

At the penalty phase of a capital trial, jurors endorse and weigh aggravators and mitigators.
The purpose of the current studies was to examine how gender differences in attributional …

Linkage analysis has, albeit occasionally, been presented in courts across the world as
evidence that a series of offences possess behavioural similarities and distinctiveness from …

The jury method is a unique social setting in the Criminal Justice system that provides
opportunity for social influence to occur. Questions about the formation of jurors' individual …

Wrongful conviction is often due to misidentification, particularly cross-cultural
misidentification. DNA errors and other influences (including weapon focus effect, mugshot …

Two distinctive groups of the early Christian community recorded in the New Testament are
exegetically analyzed to examine whether groupthink existed or not. Primarily …

Behind the closed doors of the deliberation room, jurors determine another person's fate. It is
believed that, to grant fairness to trials, the decision of some judicial cases has to be referred …

During deliberations, capital jurors are expected to properly weigh aggravators and
mitigators (ie, factors that make the defendant more or less worthy of the death penalty) to …

The objective of this study was to test whether closeness of relationships is related to
conformity in individuals. The focus of this study was gender and the closeness of …