When jurors are exposed during the trial to a new piece of evidence, they tend to distort their evaluation of that evidence in a direction that supports their current verdict choice. What is this tendency called?

A. Evidentiary distortion
B. Current-to-future distortion
C. Verdict predisposition
D. Predecisional distortion

Answer: D

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