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- Title
Cross-Examination of the Expert Witness: Do Hostile Tactics Affect Impressions of a Simulated Jury?
- Authors
Gibbs, Margaret S.; Sigal, Janet; Adams, Bonnie; Grossman, Beth
- Abstract
Ninety-one introductory psychology students viewed a videotape of a simulated personal damage trial in which a psychologist expert witness testified about a plaintiff's psychological problems resulting from trauma. The defense attorney's cross-examination tactics, employed against the expert witness, were varied in the videotape. A 2 X 2 factorial design was used, with leading versus nonleading questions and a hostile versus nonhostile attorney. An interaction effect was obtained, in which a hostile attorney using leading questions and a nonhostile attorney using nonleading questions were perceived as least effective.
- Subjects
CROSS-examination; EXAMINATION of witnesses; WITNESSES; EXPERT evidence; CRIMINALS with mental illness; ACTIONS &; defenses (Law)
- Publication
Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 1989, Vol 7, Issue 2, p275
- ISSN
0735-3936
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/bsl.2370070211