PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Leonardo M. Batista
AU  - Wade Myers
TI  - Commentary: Perception of Remorse by Mock Jurors in a Capital Murder Trial
DP  - 2012 Jan 01
TA  - Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
PG  - 55--58
VI  - 40
IP  - 1
4099  - http://jaapl.org/content/40/1/55.short
4100  - http://jaapl.org/content/40/1/55.full
SO  - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law2012 Jan 01; 40
AB  - The study by Corwin et al. adds to the emerging but limited data on the impact of defendant remorse on sentencing decisions. The authors studied verbal and nonverbal expressions of defendant remorse and whether they were perceived as remorseful by mock jurors. They found that incongruent verbal and nonverbal behavior, as well as mock jurors' willingness to approach emotional situations, resulted in more lenient sentences for defendants. An overarching and as yet unanswered validity concern regarding this line of research in general is whether the use of undergraduate mock jurors reliably models real jurors in actual courtroom settings.