RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Commentary: Perception of Remorse by Mock Jurors in a Capital Murder Trial
JF Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
JO J Am Acad Psychiatry Law
FD American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
SP 55
OP 58
VO 40
IS 1
A1 Leonardo M. Batista
A1 Wade Myers
YR 2012
UL http://jaapl.org/content/40/1/55.abstract
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.