Abstract
Subjects who were matched for self-acceptance and assigned to juries by level of moral judgment (MJ) attended a law school reinactment of a breaking and entering trial. After testimony three juries deliberated the case separately. Control juries registered individual verdicts, were retested, and dismissed. All jurors were tested on mood measures at pretrial, posttestimony and at follow-up. Results indicate that the deliberation process itself is anxiety producing. Only juries at lower levels of MJ experienced longer lasting feelings of hostility and depression. Evidence is suggestive that at high levels of MJ subjects may have responded more cognitively than emotionally.
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