Select Publications
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**denotes undergraduate author at time of publication
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.
*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.
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.
Salerno, J. M. (2021). Emotion and legal fact finding. Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 17, 181-203.
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.
McDonald, R. I., Salerno, J. M., Greenaway, K. H., & Slepian, M. L. (2020). Motivated secrecy: Politics,
relationships, and regrets. Motivation Science, 6, 61-78.
*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.
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.
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.
*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.
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.
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.
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.