| Abstract | Discusses the research about how jurors arrive at verdicts in cases involving the recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse. Investigation of mock jurors' reactions to the recovered-memory testimony of an alleged victim when a therapist intervened; Use of hypnosis, suggestion, or symptom management; How jurors viewed the victim's recovered-memory testimony as particularly accurate and credible, and favored the victim in their verdicts; Consideration of culturally formed expectancies about hypnosis.
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