Krystia Reed, Valerie P Hans, Vivian Rotenstein, Rebecca K Helm, Addison Rodriguez, Peter McKendall, Valerie F Reyna
OBJECTIVE: A mock jury experiment tested the effects of attorney guidance and jury deliberation to mitigate the challenges that civil juries face in assessing damages. HYPOTHESES: We hypothesized that two types of attorney guidance (per diem, per diem + lump sum), theoretically based in the Hans-Reyna model of jury decision making, would improve jury decision making compared with no guidance against five key benchmarks: injury assessment, validity, reliability, verbatim-gist coherence, and metacognitive experience...
April 2024: Law and Human Behavior