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Curley, Lee John and Peddie, Nicola (2025). A critique of the experimental study of juror decision-making: challenges and recommendations. In: Monaghan, Nicola ed. Contemporary Challenges in the Jury System: A Comparative Perspective. Routledge Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice and Procedure. Oxon, UK and New York, USA: Routledge, pp. 189–206.

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Curley, Lee John; Lages, Martin; Sime, Pamela J. and Munro, James (2024). Rape Myths and Verdict Systems: What Is Influencing Conviction Rates in Rape Trials in Scotland? Behavioral Sciences, 14(7), article no. 619.

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Jackson, E.; Curley, L. J.; Leverick, F. and Lages, M. (2024). The Effect of Verdict System on Juror Decisions: A Quantitative Meta-Analysis. Journal of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law (Early access).

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Curley, Lee John and Neuhaus, Till (2024). Are legal experts better decision makers than jurors? A psychological evaluation of the role of juries in the 21st century. Journal of Criminal Psychology, 14(4) pp. 325–335.

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Neuhaus, Till and Curley, Lee J. (2024). Corporate Colonization, Geopolitical Power Struggles, and Hypernudge - How Social Media Engineers Minds. In: Shei, Chris and Schnell, James eds. The Routledge Handbook of Language and Mind Engineering. Oxon, UK and New York, USA: Routledge, pp. 169–182.

Munro, James; Motson, Fred; Turner, Jim; Frumkin, Lara A. and Curley, Lee John (2024). Double jeopardy: The effects of retrial knowledge on juror decisions. Journal of Criminal Psychology, 14(4) pp. 444–455.

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Neuhaus, Till and Curley, Lee John (2023). An Interdisciplinary Re-Perspectivation of the Study of Heuristics, Biases, and Nudges. New Trends in Social and Liberal Sciences (NETSOL), 8(2) pp. 10–27.

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Curley, Lee John; Munro, James; Turner, Jim; Frumkin, Lara A.; Jackson, Elaine and Lages, Martin (2022). Proven and not proven: A potential alternative to the current Scottish verdict system. Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 40(3) pp. 452–466.

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Curley, Lee; Murray, Jennifer; MacLean, Rory; Munro, James; Lages, Martin; Frumkin, Lara; Laybourn, Phyllis and Brown, David (2022). Verdict spotting: Investigating the effects of juror bias, evidence anchors, and verdict system in jurors. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 29(3) pp. 323–344.

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Curley, Lee J.; Munro, James and Dror, Itiel E. (2022). Cognitive and human factors in legal layperson decision making: Sources of bias in juror decision making. Medicine, Science and the Law, 62(3) pp. 206–215.

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Neuhaus, Till and Curley, Lee (2022). The Emergence Of Global Behavioral Public Policy – Developments Of And Within The Nudge Unit. World Complexity Science Academy Journal, 3(2)

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Curley, Lee; Munro, James; Frumkin, Lara and Turner, Jim (2021). Informing Reform: The views of legal professionals on the unique aspects of Scottish Law. Medicine, Science and the Law, 61(4) pp. 256–265.

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Curley, Lee J.; Carruthers, Lindsey; Piotrowska, Barbara; Binnie, Daniel and Chamizo Villalta, Adrian (2020). Bilingualism: The foreign language effect does not extend to rational decision making. Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis, 17(1), article no. 1.

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Curley, Lee J.; Munro, James; Lages, Martin; MacLean, Rory and Murray, Jennifer (2020). Assessing cognitive bias in forensic decisions: A review and outlook. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 65(2) pp. 354–360.

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Curley, Lee J.; Munro, James; Lages, Martin; MacLean, Rory and Murray, Jennifer (2020). Authors' Response: Is the definition of task-irrelevant contextual information black and white? Journal of Forensic Sciences, 65(2) pp. 668–670.

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Curley, Lee J.; Munro, James and Lages, Martin (2020). An inconvenient truth: More rigorous and ecologically valid research is needed to properly understand cognitive bias in forensic decisions. Forensic Science International: Synergy, 2 pp. 107–109.

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Curley, Lee John; Munro, James and Lages, Martin (2020). Author Response: No need for throwing stones – Wherever you live…. Forensic Science International: Synergy, 2 pp. 705–707.

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Curley, Lee J.; MacLean, Rory; Murray, Jennifer; Laybourn, Phyllis and Brown, David (2019). The bastard verdict and its influence on jurors. Medicine, Science and the Law, 59(1) pp. 26–35.

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Curley, Lee J.; MacLean, Rory; Murray, Jennifer; Pollock, Andrew C. and Laybourn, Phyllis (2019). Threshold point utilisation in juror decision-making. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 26(1) pp. 110–128.

Curley, Lee J.; MacLean, Rory; Murray, Jennifer and Laybourn, Phyllis (2018). Decision Science: A New Hope. Psychological Reports, 122(6) pp. 2417–2439.

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Curley, Lee J.; Murray, Jennifer; MacLean, Rory; Laybourn, Phyllis and Brown, David (2018). Faith in thy threshold. Medicine, Science and the Law, 58(4) pp. 239–250.

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Curley, Lee J.; MacLean, Rory and Murray, Jennifer (2017). The Relationship between the Big 5 Personality Traits and Eyewitness Recognition. Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis, 13(2)

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Curley, Lee J.; Murray, Jennifer; MacLean, Rory and Laybourn, Phyllis (2017). Are consistent juror decisions related to fast and frugal decision making? Investigating the relationship between juror consistency, decision speed and cue utilisation. Medicine, Science and the Law, 57(4) pp. 211–219.

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Curley, L. J. (2017). Decision making process of jurors. In: Baker, B.; Minhas, R. and Wilson, L. eds. Factbook: Psychology and Law (2nd ed.). Kelowna: European Association of Psychology and Law Student Society.

Curley, Lee J.; Murray, J. and MacLean, R. (2016). Heuristics: The good, the bad, and the biased. What value can bias have for decision makers? Psychology Postgraduate Affairs Group Quarterly(100) pp. 41–44.