Flexible corrections of juror judgments - Implications for jury instructions

The Flexible Correction Model (FCM, D. T. Wegener & R. E. Petty, 1997; D. T . Wegener, R. E. Petty, & M. Dunn, 1998) conceptualizes efforts at bias cor rection (i.e., attempts to remove influences that are perceived as illegiti mate or unwanted) as guided by people's naive theories (perceptions) of the influences at work in that judgment setting. In this article, the authors present this model, discuss the general support for this model outside of c ourtroom judgment, and discuss a variety of implications of this model for courtroom judgment in general and for the impact of judges' instructions to juries in particular.