Multiple Choice
Research first completed by Rita Simon in 1967, and later replicated in multiple studies by Finkel and his colleagues in the 1990s and 2000s, found that, when different sets of jurors are given different definitions of insanity based on legal terminology, there is:
A) no impact on their verdicts.
B) a great deal of difference in their verdicts.
C) an increase in guilty verdicts.
D) a decrease in guilty verdicts.
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