Krystia ReedUniversity of Texas at El Paso | UTEP · Department of Psychology
Krystia Reed
Doctor of Psychology
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A quarter of women and 11% of men report being survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) during their lifetimes in the United States. Despite being victims themselves, people who kill their IPV abuser can still be subject to criminal proceedings. Given this complexity, the law has employed battered spouse syndrome (BSS) as a tool used in some ju...
Objective: A mock jury experiment tested the effects of attorney guidance and jury deliberation to mitigate the challenges that civil juries face in assessing damages. Hypotheses: We hypothesized that two types of attorney guidance (per diem, per diem + lump sum), theoretically based in the Hans–Reyna model of jury decision making, would improve ju...
The National Institute of Drug Addiction has promoted the Brain Disease Model of Addiction (BDMA) for several decades, believing it will have a positive impact on drug-related social policies. Per research, neither understanding nor accepting the BDMA positively influences social behavior and decision making related to decreased stigma or increased...
This paper presents a data-driven debugging framework to improve the trustworthiness of US tax preparation software. As the US tax law evolves to adapt to ever-changing politico-economic realities, tax preparation software plays a significant role in helping taxpayers navigate these complexities. Given the legal implications of bugs in such softwar...
Theory and practitioner “scaling” advice informed hypotheses that guidance to mock jurors should (a) increase validity (vertical equity), decrease variability (reliability), and improve coherence in awards; (b) improve subjective experience of jurors’ decision-making (rated helpfulness, confidence, and difficulty); and (c) have the greatest impact...
Because attorneys are essential to a fair legal process, it is important to understand the experience of a legal career. This article first reviews research on the influence of attorneys on the legal system, focusing on the effect on the influence of trial attorneys on ( a) juries, with a particular focus on attorney skill, behavior, trial decision...
This project employs an experimental design to test theoretical predictions regarding how numeracy can assist jurors in determining damage awards to compensate a plaintiff for pain and suffering, and how the use of meaningful numerical anchors may produce similar benefits. Mock jurors (N=345) reviewed a legal case and were asked to give a dollar aw...
An examination of publication patterns in scholarly journals is one way of gauging what is going on in a particular field. The present study examined 7 years of articles in three leading law-psychology journals (Psychology, Crime & Law; Psychology, Public Policy, & Law; Legal & Criminological Psychology) to determine the substantive topics and type...
Attorneys object at trial to immediately correct errors or to preserve the record for appeal; however, legal scholars caution that objecting can negatively impact the jury. Thus, attorneys are caught in a predicament when deciding whether to object and psycholegal researchers have offered little guidance. Thus, the present studies experimentally is...
The advantages and disadvantages of jury simulation research have often been debated in the literature. Critics chiefly argue that jury simulations lack verisimilitude, particularly through their use of student mock jurors, and that this limits the generalizabilty of the findings. In the present article, the question of sample differences (student...
Attorneys suffer from high rates of stress, alcoholism, and mental health problems that are costly for the legal system and impair their abilities to serve their clients. There is some indication that these problems begin in law school. The present study assessed a cohort of law students at an American law school for their reported levels of stress...
In the legal system, jurors serve as a reflection of community sentiment. Jurors’ task is to "find facts" and apply the law to those facts, but in the course of doing so, they necessarily make moral judgments about how bad a crime or criminal is when they render verdicts. This process allows jurors to express their own sentiments, which are reflect...
Empirical evidence regarding high levels of attorney distress indicates that lawyers and law students suffer from depression, alcoholism and drug abuse at rates significantly higher than the general population and other professionals. This chapter begins by summarizing the research that has revealed how attorney distress is expressed through depres...