Racial diversity and group decision‐making in a mock jury experiment

• Published date: 01 September 2023
• Date: 01 September 2023
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/jels.12352

ERRATUM

Racial diversity and group decision-making in a mock

jury experiment

Hakstian, A.-M., Evett, S. R., Hoffmann, J. S., Marshall, J. M., Boyland,

E. A. L., & Williams, J. D. (2022). Racial diversity and group decision-making in

a mock jury experiment. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 19(4), 1253–1292.

https://doi.org/10.1111/jels.12335

In Hakstian et al. (2022), there were errors in Figures 2and 3, published on

Page 1271, the y-axis and the corresponding values on each bar have incorrect

commas between the hundred thousand place. The corrected Figures 2and 3

appear below.

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Juries with

Black Jurors

(n=6*)

Juries without

Black Jurors

Mean Compensatory Damages

Mean Compensatory

Damages

Requested Amount

$56,000

FIGURE 2 Mean compensatory damage awards by juror race and jury type (pre-deliberation)

and by jury type (post-deliberation) relative to plaintiff’s requested amount ($56,000). Asterisk

indicates that one diverse jury recommended extremely high compensatory damages ($1,000,000)

compared to the remaining six juries. This outlier is omitted from the mean. If included,

compensatory damages for juries with Black jurors M=$183,142 (n=7).

DOI: 10.1111/jels.12352

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