Juan Cagas

Juan Cangas is a junior psychology major and philosophy minor. He is entering his second year in the Law & Psychology Lab, and has worked on studies concerning generic prejudice, death penalty and emotions, and Counterfactual thinking and Negligence. His main interest in legal psychology is the effects of juror decision making based on different manipulations in emotion. Juan was a part of the 2007 Ronald E. McNair program were he conducted his own research over the summer and was able to present it at the annual McNair Research Conference at the University of California-Berkeley. His research was entitled "Gender Differences in Experienced Fear and Anger to a Capital Murder Trial."

After graduating in May 2009, Juan plans on attending a joint Ph.D/J.D. Law-Psychology program with hopes of becoming a researcher, legal consultant, or becoming more involved in legal policy making.

His current research proposal is entitled "Affective Forecasting: The Effect of Overestimating Negative Emotions on Jury Decisions."