Social cognitive processes explain bias in juror decisions.

"data availability unthresholded fmri statistical maps can be viewed/downloaded from neurovault: https://neurovault org/collections/11105/ . code and fmri analysis pre-registration for hypothesis grouping can be viewed and downloaded from osf"

"Conflict of interest The authors declared that they had no conflict of interest with respect to their authorship or the publication of this article."

"Funding This work was supported by the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Colorado Boulder, Office of Naval Research via eCortex, N00014-18-C-2067 to R.M.C; National Science Foundation 1655445 to J.H.P.S.; National Institutes of Health K01-ES-025442 to J.M.P. and National Science Foundation DGE-1644868 to J.J.C. Funders had no role in the study or manuscript. S.H. is currently at the Toyota Research Institute in Los Altos, CA."