Dr. Evan McCracken is an FLC trial consultant and research analyst. Dr. McCracken’s primary areas of practice are civil litigation and securities law. Dr. McCracken facilitates pre-trial research projects for both plaintiffs and defendants in federal and state courts across the country. Dr. McCracken specializes in quantitative jury research analysis including juror profiling.
Dr. McCracken received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology and M.A. in Legal Studies from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Dr. McCracken has examined how moral perceptions such as dehumanization impact jurors’ punitiveness and what individual juror characteristics predict leniency when criminal defendants are children. He has also conducted program evaluation work for the Vanderburgh County CyberCrimes Task Force along with local child and adult victim advocacy centers.
Dr. McCracken has been published in Law and Human Behavior, Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, and Translational Issues in Psychological Science. Dr. McCracken has presented his research at several legal psychology conferences including the American Psychology-Law Society Annual Conference, the Society for Child and Family Policy and Practice divisional meeting at the American Psychological Association convention, the Association for Psychological Science convention, and the annual convention for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.