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ForsterLee and colleagues (1993) examined how substantive pretrial instructions about compensatory damage awards affected jurors in a toxic tort case. Some jurors were pre-instructed and post-instructed as to compensatory awards, while other jurors were only post-instructed prior to deliberations. The timing of the instructions affected both the amount of compensation awarded and in jurors’ differentiation among plaintiffs…