Select Publications
*denotes graduate author at time of publication
**denotes undergraduate author at time of publication
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Salerno, J. M., *Kulak, K., Smalarz, L. A., *Eerdmans, R. E., *Lawrence, M. L., & **Dao, Tramanh. (in press). The
impact of establishing non-racist credentials on mock juror decisions about Black defendants. Law and
Human Behavior.
Smalarz, L. A., *Eerdmans, R. E., *Lawrence, M. L., *Kulak, K., & Salerno, J. M. (in press). Counterintuitive race
effects in legal and non-legal context. Law and Human Behavior.
Growns, B., *Towler, A., *Dunn, J.D., Salerno, J.M., Schweitzer, N. J., Dror. I.E. (2022). Statistical-feature
training improves fingerprint-matching accuracy in novices and professional fingerprint examiners. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 7: 60.
Salerno, J. M., & Slepian, M. L. (2022). Morality, punishment, and revealing other people’s secrets. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 122(4), 606–633.
Growns, B., Mattijssen, E. J. A. T., Salerno, J. M., Schweitzer, N. J., Cole, S. A., & Martire, K. A. (2022). Finding the
perfect match: Fingerprint expertise facilitates statistical learning and visual comparison decision-making. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. Advance online publication.
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*Phalen, H. J., Salerno, J. M., & Schweitzer, N. J. (2021). Can neuroimaging prove pain and suffering?: The influence
of pain assessment techniques on legal judgments of physical versus emotional pain. Law and Human Behavior, 45, 393.
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Salerno, J. M., Campbell, J. C., *Phalen, H. J., *Bean, S. R., Hans, V., *Spivak, D., & Ross, L. (2021). The impact of
minimal versus extended voir dire and judicial rehabilitation on mock jurors’ decisions in civil cases. Law and Human Behavior, 45, 336.
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Salerno, J. M. (2021). Emotion and legal fact finding. Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 17, 181-203.
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Salerno, J. M., & *Sanchez, M. J. (2020). Subjective interpretation of “objective” video evidence:
Perceptions of male versus female police officers’ use of force. Law and Human Behavior, 44, 97-112.
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McDonald, R. I., Salerno, J. M., Greenaway, K. H., & Slepian, M. L. (2020). Motivated secrecy: Politics,
relationships, and regrets. Motivation Science, 6, 61-78.
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*Caraveo-Parra, D., Fradella, H. F., Salerno, J., & Telep, C. W. (2019). Does homophobia affect prosecutorial
discretion in ambiguous statutory rape cases? Willamette Social Justice and Equity Journal, 3, 1–50.
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Salerno, J. M., & *Phalen, H. J. (2019). Traditional gender roles and backlash against female attorneys expressing
anger in court. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 16, 909-932.
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Salerno, J. M., Peter-Hagene, L. C., & *Jay, A. (2019). Women and African Americans lose influence when they
express anger during group decision making. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 3, 336.
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*Jay, A., Salerno, J. M., & *Ross, R. (2018). When hurt heroes do harm: Collective guilt and leniency toward war-
veteran transgressors. Psychiatry, Psychology & Law, 25, 32-58.
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Salerno, J. M., *Phalen, H., & **Reyes, R., & Schweitzer, N. J. (2018). Closing with emotion: The differential
impact of male versus female attorneys expressing anger in court. Law and Human Behavior, 42, 385-401.
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Salerno JM, Bottoms BL, & Peter-Hagene LC (2017) Individual versus group decision making: Jurors’ reliance on
central and peripheral information to evaluate expert testimony. PLoS ONE 12: e0183580.
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Salerno, J. M. (2017). Seeing red: Disgust drives the differential effect of color versus black and white gruesome
photographs on legal judgments. Psychology, Public Policy, & Law, 23, 336-350.