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Voir dire, especially in federal courts, is often limited to demographic information such as residence, age, marital status, occupation, spouse’s occupation, children’s ages and occupations, and prior jury service. At times, questioning is expanded beyond this demographic information to jurors’ experiences, attitudes, habits, and tendencies that are case-related (and sometimes more generally). Moran and colleagues (1990) examined the effect of minimal versus extended voir dire …