Why Jurors Regularly Vote

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A new study shows that jurors regularly vote to convict defendants despite believing in their innocence. This is because of group pressure to achieve a decision and avoid a hung jury, says John Sutter. "I love or hate how people can frame themselves as being the rational party when clearly they're the emotional party," he adds. 'We can't cleave emotion out of human experience'

In this episode we sit down with NYU psychologist Jay Van Bavel who is very good at Twitter. His feed is always overflowing with the absolute latest and greatest research from psychology with links to papers as they come out – on many of the topics we so often explore on this podcast – and in this episode we discuss ten of those tweets and the research he’s shared.

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