@article{ref1,
title="Reaction of mock jurors to testimony of a court appointed expert",
journal="Behavioral sciences and the law",
year="2000",
author="Cooper, J. and Hall, J.",
volume="18",
number="6",
pages="719-729",
abstract="A study was conducted to assess the impact of court appointed experts on the judgments of mock jurors. A civil proceeding was adopted for the experiment. Mock jurors heard testimony about a plaintiff's injury in an automobile accident. In some conditions, medical testimony for the plaintiff and defendant was provided by experts hired by each side. In other conditions, a medical expert appointed by the court testified in addition to the two adversarial experts. In one of these conditions, the court expert sided with the plaintiff; in another, the expert sided with the defendant. The plaintiff in the case was always an individual. The defendant was sometimes a corporation and sometimes an individual. The results showed that mock jurors sided with the court appointed expert in every condition except when the expert favored a corporate defendant. The results were discussed in terms of heuristic processing of persuasive information.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0735-3936",
doi="10.1002/bsl.414",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bsl.414"
}