Open AccessVariations in reliability and validity do not influence judge, attorney, and mock juror decisions about psychological expert evidence.
Author(s) -
Jacqueline Austin Chorn,
Margaret Bull Kovera
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
law and human behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.432
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1573-661X
pISSN - 0147-7307
DOI - 10.1037/lhb0000345
Subject(s) - psychology , test (biology) , reliability (semiconductor) , quality (philosophy) , social psychology , scientific evidence , applied psychology , legal psychology , statistics , paleontology , power (physics) , philosophy , physics , mathematics , epistemology , quantum mechanics , biology
We tested whether the reliability and validity of psychological testing underlying an expert's opinion influenced judgments made by judges, attorneys, and mock jurors.