Source of article ComCon - Communication Consulting.

ury selection is an art based on science, with attorneys striking jurors they believe to be closed and resistant to the arguments they will be presenting. Jurors’ beliefs about emotion, and the relationship between emotion and reason, have been found to affect determinations of guilt in a criminal trial. A recent study by Spackman et al. (2006) found that jurors’ beliefs about emotion and reason influenced their determination of whether a defendant was guilty of murder or manslaughter…