How emotionally -induced certainty influences mock jurors' decision -making and verdicts in a criminal case.
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Title
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How emotionally -induced certainty influences mock jurors' decision -making and verdicts in a criminal case.
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Identifier
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AAI3204978
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identifier
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3204978
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Creator
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Arnot, Lucy.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Richard L. Wiener
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Date
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2006
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Psychology, Social
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Abstract
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Drawing from Appraisal theory's fundamental premise that emotions are differentially elicited by various patterns of cognitive appraisals, several recent theories (Keltner, Ellsworth & Edwards, 1993; Lerner & Keltner, 2000; Tiedens & Linton, 2001) address the way these underlying cognitions cause appraisal-congruent judgments and behavior in subsequent situations. For example, one of the appraisals underlying the emotion fear is uncertainty, and testing of these recent theories has shown that fear induced in one situation results in uncertainty, and certainty-seeking behavior, in a novel situation. Certainty is of particular interest as an appraisal dimension because of its implications for information processing and judgment.;A pair of studies was designed to explore the influence of emotion-induced certainty on mock jurors' judgments in a criminal case. Study 1 demonstrated that, explicitly induced emotions with different certainty appraisals influenced participants' conviction thresholds, which, in turn, influenced guilt certainty. However, study 2 failed to find similar effects for implicitly induced emotions on subsequent judgments or on final inferences of guilt certainty.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
