Moral foundations and juror verdict justifications
JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY(2024)
摘要
The purpose of this study was to examine the ways in which mock jurors justified their verdict decisions using moral foundations language. Participants read a trial transcript describing a second-degree murder charge featuring an automatism plea (which negates the physical volition of a crime). They then provided a two-to-three sentence rationale for their verdict choice, which we coded for the contextually-valid presence of words from the Moral Foundations (MF) Dictionary. Mock jurors were most likely to use harm-related language in justifying murder votes. A qualitative description also revealed differences in the content of the justifications.
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Juror decision-making,moral foundations theory,verdict justification,linguistic inquiry and word count
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