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penalty severity effect on verdicts: a standalone construct

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Legal psychology

the finding that mock jurors become less willing to convict as the penalty attached to a conviction becomes more severe.

In legal psychology, penalty severity effect on verdicts refers to the finding that mock jurors become less willing to convict as the penalty attached to a conviction becomes more severe. This meaning comes from Kerr (1978) in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.[1]

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Kerr2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one surname, two constructs severity effect1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

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Kerr, N. L. (1978). Severity of prescribed penalty and mock jurors' verdicts. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 36(12), 1431-1442. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.36.12.1431

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