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Words Matter: How Attorney Language Abstraction and Emotional Valence Shape Juror Decision-Making.

Behav Sci (Basel) · 2025 · PMC12562236 · PMID 41153145

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approached significancep = 0.07so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)
The interaction between valence and abstraction approached significance, χ 2 1 = 3.22 , p = 0.07 .

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not conventionally significantno p-value reported
Although not conventionally significant, this trend supports the idea that emotional valence might have a greater impact when attorney language is concrete rather than abstract.

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