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The Science of Attorney Advocacy: How Courtroom Behavior Affects Jury Decision Making (Law and Public Policy: Psychology and the Social Sciences Series) by JESSICA D.FINDLEY AND BRUCE D.SALES, Jessica D. Findley and Bruce D. Sales, Jessica D Findley, Bruce Dennis Sales is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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\"Successful advocacy approaches are essential for the practice of law. Lawyers, law professors, judges, and other legal commentators have offered numerous recommendations for how trial lawyers can persuade juries, including techniques in verbal and nonverbal communication, attorney demeanor, and so forth. These recommendations have been put into trial practice handbooks and are frequently taught in law schools as part of the trial advocacy curriculum. However, they often rely on popular assumptions or intuition rather than social and behavioral science. Research is needed to differentiate intuition and speculation from scientific proof of efficacy. This book fills this critical gap by reviewing the scientific support for popular advocacy recommendations. It first summarizes trial commentators' recommendations, then reviews the scientific support for these recommendations, and finally evaluates the recommendations in light of the scientific support. Research is culled from not only trial and simulated trial settings, but also other social and behavioral settings. Topics include attorney demeanor, verbal and nonverbal communications, the attorney-client relationship, and storytellin

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Author
JESSICA D.FINDLEY AND BRUCE D.SALES, Jessica D. Findley and Bruce D. Sales, Jessica D Findley, Bruce Dennis Sales
Publisher
American Psychological Association, American Psychological Association
Published
2012
Language
EN
ISBN
9781433810985
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Psychology, Law, Political Science

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