When recounting traumatic events, victims often cry, although not always in the courtroom. In the courtroom, some victims are stoic while others are emotional. The 'emotional witness effect' is a phenomenon in which listeners are affected by the emotional manner in which an alleged victim recounts what happened to them. For example, distressed female Rape complainants (i.e., those crying or sobbing) are perceived by psychologists, police officers, judges and students to be more credible than controlled or neutral rape complainants (Nitschke et al., 2019). Do jurors similarly find Alleged Rape Victims who cry to be more credible? do jurors respond similarly to male and female alleged rape victims crying? Do female jurors react to crying by alleged rape victims differently than male jurors? Pals and colleagues (2023) investigated alleged victim crying, victim gender and juror gender on juror perceptions of an alleged stranger rape case....