Case Order Effects in Legal Decision-Making.

Behav Sci (Basel) · 2025 · PMC12466634 · PMID 41009280

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Similarly, the proportion of participants giving a guilty verdict in the captain scenario increased slightly after viewing the apprentice scenario (from 37:62 to 49:54 guilty:not guilty), but this difference did not reach statistical significance according to a Fisher’s exact test ( p = 0.16, OR = 0.66, 95% CI = [0.36, 1.20]).

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