The present study examined the effects of demonstrative evidence on mock jurors' pain and suffering damage awards and the psychological processes underlying those effects. Participants read excerpts from the plaintiff's and his expert's testimony and saw photo simulations of the plaintiff's visual impairments that they were instructed to treat either as substantive evidence or illustrative aids, or saw no simulations. Participants who saw demonstrative evidence of the plaintiff's impaired vision awarded him significantly more pain and suffering damages than did those who did not. The effect was mediated by the judged severity of the plaintiff's suffering: Those who saw demonstrative evidence awarded more damages in part because they judged the plaintiff's suffering from his visual impairments to be more severe than those who did not. Participants differentiated between substantive and illustrative demonstrative evidence in several respects but in two of three studies did not award significantly different amounts of damages.

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描绘痛苦和苦难：示范证据，指示和原告信誉对模拟陪审团损害赔偿的影响

本研究检查了示范证据对模拟陪审员的痛苦和遭受损害赔偿的影响，以及这些影响所基于的心理过程。参加者阅读了原告及其专家的证词摘录，并看到了对原告视力障碍的照片模拟，他们被指示作为实质性证据或说明性辅助手段对待，或者看不到任何模拟。与原告没有视力障碍的人相比，看到原告视力受损的明显证据的参与者给他的痛苦和损失要多得多。该影响是由原告遭受的痛苦的严重程度所介导的：那些看到指示性证据的人给予了更多的损害赔偿，部分原因是他们判断了原告的“受害人”。的视力障碍要比没有视力障碍的人更严重。参加者在几个方面对实质性和说明性的示范证据进行了区分，但在三项研究中的两项中，并未判给明显不同的损害赔偿。