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Article

Publication Title

Current Research in Social Psychology

Abstract

We investigated plea bargaining by making students actually guilty or innocent of a cheating offense and varying the sentence that they would face if found ‘guilty’ by a review board. As hypothesized, guilty students were more likely than innocent students to accept a plea deal (i.e., admit guilt and lose credit; akin to accepting a sentence of probation) (Chi-square=8.63, p<.01) but we did not find an effect of sentence severity. Innocent students, though not as likely to plead as guilty students, showed an overall preference (56% across conditions) for accepting a plea deal. Implications and future directions are discussed.

Publication Date

12-10-2013

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This published article is available in accordance with the publisher's policy. It may be subject to U.S. copyright law. http://www.uiowa.edu/~grpproc/crisp/crisp.html

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