Showing posts with label terror management theory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label terror management theory. Show all posts
Monday, December 12, 2011

Can Tarek Mehanna Take the Fifth... and the First?

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The Protected Free Speech Defense The terrorism trial of Tarek Mehanna has been going on in Federal District Court in Boston for about a m...
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Monday, October 31, 2011

Jurors as Interpreters: When Facts Aren't Facts

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The Interpretive Role of the Jury The Tarek Mehanna Terrorism trial is compelling drama, revealing about our homeland security efforts, an...
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Challenging Jury Selection in Tarek Mehanna Trial

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Followers of The Jury Box Blog know that I have been following closely the case of Tarek Mehanna, since he was arrested and arraigned ne...
Wednesday, October 05, 2011

Ferdaus Arrest complicates Mehanna trial

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When did Massachusetts move from the Northeast to the Middle East? Rezwan Ferdaus Massachusetts residents awoke last week to the distu...
Tuesday, September 06, 2011

Facing the Fearful Jury: Terror Management Theory in the Courtroom

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A few years ago, a collection of scholars at Harvard realized that there existed a great deal of psychological, neurological and sociologica...
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Friday, January 07, 2011

Blame Avoidance v. Blame Deflection: The Gun Show Uzi trial

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Gun show Uzi trial highlights emotional impact of tragedy The manslaughter trial of Edward Fleury , a retired Police Chief, finally got unde...
Monday, November 15, 2010

Tragedy, Hindsight Bias and the Blame Game

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A Tragic Spray of Bullets At a gun show in Westfield, Massachusetts, organized by a former police chief, Chistopher Bizilj (age 8) lost his...
Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Boston Terrorism case will prove a test of Terror Management Theory

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On October 21, Acting U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts, Michael K. Loucks, announced that Tarek Mehanna, a 27 year old Sudbury man, had been ...