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Legal psychology

the expectation that jurors judge defendants more leniently when the defendants resemble them, which holds only under some conditions.

In legal psychology, similarity-leniency hypothesis refers to the expectation that jurors judge defendants more leniently when the defendants resemble them, which holds only under some conditions. This meaning comes from Kerr (1995) in Law and Human Behavior.[1]

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References

Kerr, N. L., Hymes, R. W., Anderson, A. B., & Weathers, J. E. (1995). Defendant-juror similarity and mock juror judgments. Law and Human Behavior, 19(6), 545-567. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01499374

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