Jason A Cantone

Biographic Data

ID643348
NAMEJason A Cantone
GIVEN NAMESJason A
FAMILY NAMECantone
SIGNATURECANTONE J A
AFFILIATIONSGeorge Mason University
ORCID0000-0003-3858-7129
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Autistic juvenile defendants

    Kristina Todorovic, Mia A Thomaidou et al.ARTICLELaw and Human Behavior2025

    OBJECTIVE: This study explores whether providing information about a juvenile defendant's autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis, the type of offense (violent/nonviolent), and their race influences laypersons' credibility evaluations and legal decisions (verdicts/sentencing). HYPOTHESES: We expected participants to render more not guilty verdicts and show leniency in sentencing when the defendant is White, has an ASD diagnosis, and is charged w…

  • Improving graduate education in legal psychology

    Jason A Cantone, Apryl A Alexander et al.ARTICLELaw and Human Behavior2024

    OBJECTIVE: This article reviews how training programs and professional organizations can work together to better prepare legal psychology graduate students and early career professionals (ECPs) for their first postgraduate careers. METHOD: In 2019, the American Psychology-Law Society released a report exploring the unique needs of ECPs in the field of legal psychology. The surveyed ECPs overwhelmingly highlighted the importance of grappling with …

  • Essentialism and the criminal legal system

    Open AccessMadeleine Millar, Colleen M Berryessa et al.ARTICLELaw and Human Behavior2024

    OBJECTIVE: Existing literature has yet to conceptualize and consolidate research on psychological essentialism and its relation to the criminal legal system, particularly in terms of explaining how individuals with justice involvement have been and could be differentially impacted across contexts. This article explores essentialism in the criminal legal system, including its potential consequences for inequity. METHOD: We review research on essen…

  • Self-referencing affects perceptions of workplace discrimination against atheists

    Jason A Cantone, Victoria Walls et al.ARTICLEPsychology of Religion and…2022

  • Judicial involvement in plea-bargaining

    Kelsey S Henderson, Erika N Fountain et al.ARTICLEPsychology Public Policy and Law2021Cited by: 1References: 5

    The topic of judicial involvement in plea negotiations is a controversial issue, with potential benefits (e.g., ensuring that the process is fairer) and risks (e.g., inducing an innocent defendant to plead guilty). Currently, 20 jurisdictions explicitly prohibit judicial involvement in plea negotiations, whereas eight permit some type of involvement. We surveyed state court judges about judicial involvement in plea bargaining (colloquy and negoti…

  • Sounding guilty

    Jason A Cantone, Leslie N Martinez et al.ARTICLEJournal of Ethnicity in Criminal…2019

    Black Americans and Mexican Americans have faced continued cultural stereotypes, as well as more punitive outcomes, within the judicial system. Very little research has explored whether minority defendants with stereotypical accents face additional discrimination. The current study investigated the role of race and accent bias on juror decisions for Black, Mexican American, or White defendants in a negligence case. Results indicated that while Bl…

  • Counterfactual Thinking, Causation, and Covariation in Mock Juror Assessments of Negligence

    Open AccessJason A CantoneARTICLEPsychological Reports2018

    In the past three decades, researchers have examined counterfactual thinking and causation in decision making. However, little work has applied these findings to trial settings. The present research examined two conflicting theories regarding counterfactual thinking and causation to elaborate on earlier work examining counterfactual thinking in negligence law cases. The research also expanded the earlier work by examining covariation theory, addi…

  • Religion at work

    Jason A Cantone, Richard L WienerARTICLEPsychology Public Policy and Law2017Cited by: 2

    Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits an employer from discriminating “against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.” Impressive bodies of research have investigated sexual harassment and gender discrimination in the workplace. Few studies address religious discrimination in the workplace, though cl…