Study: Male Jurors More Likely To Find Heavier Women Guilty

From ThinkProgress Sat Jan 12 2013, 14:00:12

A Yale University study determined that male jurors are more likely to find an suspect guilty when that suspect is a heavier woman, with thin male jurors the exhibiting the most pronounced bias: The researchers corralled a group of 471 pretend peers of varying body sizes and described to them a case of check fraud. [...]

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