The Effect of Framing Actuarial Risk Probabilities on Involuntary Civil Commitment Decisions

The effects of labelling, expert testimo

The effects of labelling, expert testimony, and information processing mode on juror decisions in SVP civil commitment trials

✍ Joel D. Lieberman; Daniel A. Krauss 📂 Article 📅 2009 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 97 KB

## Abstract Expert witnesses offering testimony in sexually violent predator civil commitment trials may use diagnostic labels that are either familiar (e.g. ‘psychopath’) or unfamiliar (e.g. ‘paraphilia’) to jurors. Using predictions based on cognitive experiential self‐theory, we explored the inf