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Jury decision-making has long been a focus for legal scholars and behavioral scientists. Juries hold significant power: their verdicts determine a person's freedom, liability, or even life. The Constitution of the United States of America embodies the principles of liberty…

This review draws on empirical, theoretical, and policy literature across psychology, law, sociology, political science, and communication. The foundational literature was identified through established reviews and meta-analyses, particularly Devine (2012), Devine et al. (2001), and Bornstein and Greene (2011, 2017),…

Modern empirical research on jury decision-making generally traces to the Chicago Jury Project of the 1950s, one of the earliest systematic efforts to study juries in operation using social scientific methods (Devine et al., 2001, p. 622). Funded in part…

Researchers examining legal decision-making use a diverse yet sometimes overlapping vocabulary that varies across disciplines and research traditions. Terms such as juror, jury, mock jury, and deliberation are often operationalized differently depending on whether scholars are studying actual court processes,…

Following the field's early development in the 1960s, jury research became relatively dormant until a resurgence in the 1970s. During the late 1970s and 1980s, researchers increasingly relied on controlled trial simulations, which allowed investigators to examine causal mechanisms with…