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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Juror Decision Making"”.
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The Influence of Social Media on Juror Decision-Making
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Knowledge updating in jurors : cognitive load affects juror decision making.
Mock jurors read a trial summary describing the armed robbery of a convenience store and rendered a verdict. Then, half of the jurors viewed an exculpatory videotape of the robbery; the remaining jurors completed an unrelated task. All jurors voted again. Those who watched the video were less …
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Wrongful Conviction Documentaries: Influences of Crime Media Exposure on Mock Juror Decision-Making
… depicting wrongful convictions, such as <em>Making a Murderer </em>(Demos & Ricciardi, 2015) and <em>When They See Us </em>(DuVernay, 2019) have garnered substantial viewership. Research on general and case-specific pretrial publicity (Daftary-Kapur et al., 2014; Kovera, 2002) and the effects …
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Juror decision-making in professional liability cases: A model and tests in the audit litigation setting
… important cause of this crisis is that auditors' decision and actions are evaluated in light of an ill-defined standard of care and in hindsight. In this dissertation, I develop a model of juror decision making for professional negligence cases and test it in the auditing setting.
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The impact of gruesome evidence on mock juror decision making : the role of evidence characteristics and emotional response
… the effects of gruesome evidence on mock jurors? decisions in a simulated capital trial. The first experiment was designed as a replication and extension of Douglas, Lyon, and Ogloff (1997), who found that mock jurors who were presented with gruesome photographic evidence were nearly twice …
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Are jurors persuaded by the "concreteness of truth?" : the impact of eyewitness concreteness, juror instructions, and visualization on juror decision making.
… of eyewitness use of linguistic concreteness on juror decision making. Mock jurors read a summary of an ambiguous criminal case that included a concrete or abstract version of an eyewitness's testimony. When jurors received only these materials (Experiment 1), those who received the concrete …
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Battered woman syndrome: Juror common understanding and expert testimony
… what is the impact of expert testimony on juror decision-making in a simulated battered woman's homicide case? Do prior knowledge of domestic violence and beliefs about the acceptability of woman-battering affect receptivity to expert testimony or influence the decision-making process?
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The Influence of Racial and Crime Stereotypes on Jurors' Representations of Trial Evidence and Verdict Decisions
<p>Past research has shown that jurors tend to make more severe culpability judgments when defendants are charged with crimes that are associated with their racial group (e.g., Jones & Kaplan, 2013). Although the Story Model (e.g., Pennington & Hastie, 1988) has received much empirical support and …
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Indigenous Victims with Mental Illness: The Influence of Stereotypes and Stigma on Mock-Juror Perceptions
This study examined jurors’ perceptions of victim race and mental illness as a function of defendant race in a mock-juror decision-making context. Victim race (Indigenous vs. White) and Mental Illness (substance abuse vs. schizophrenia vs. no mental illness) along with officer’s race (Indigenous …
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To Conform or Not to Conform: An Examination of the Effects of Mock Jury Deliberation on Individual Jurors
… to occur. Questions about the formation of jurors’ individual and collective decisions have stimulated a great deal of interest and research. This study is a review of the juror decision-making process and the various sources of influence that can affect it. Mock jurors were asked to review …
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Using A Flow-Chart to Reduce Juror's Pre-Existing Biases In Cases Utilizing The Insanity Defense
… evidence presented throughout the trial, many jurors use their attitudes to assist them when deciding a verdict and punishment. For example, Steblay, Hosch, Culhane & McWethy (2006) found that not only is it difficult for jurors to disregard information that is not relevant or presented during …
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Mental disorder labelling as an extralegal variable in mock jury deliberations
… (extralegal variables) can and do influence juror’s judgements. This is of importance as only the legally relevant facts of the case should be considered during a trial. The present study investigates the influence of victim characteristics on the juror decision making process during …
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Impact of Class-based Prejudice toward Defendants and Victims on Mock Jurors' Decision-Making
… attention paid to social class in the context of juror decision-making. The effect of social class was evaluated using a theoretical framework of justification-suppression of prejudice and intergroup threat. Across two trial simulation studies, the social class of the defendant (Study 1) or victim …
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Biases toward defendants in joint criminal trials
… by examining the impact of evidence strength on juror decision making in joint and single trials of the same defendant. Sixty mock juror university students were required to listen to an audiotaped trial summary about a hypothetical assault case that followed the same procedure as would be …
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Personal Beliefs and Public Print: The Influence of Pre-Existing Attitudes and Pretrial Publicity Information on Final Verdicts
<p>Pretrial publicity (PTP), defined as any news story about a case not yet in trial, has been shown to affect trial outcomes. Results, however, are mixed, with studies finding strong effects, others weaker effects, and some no effects. These differences are sometimes attributed to methodology and …
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Three Studies of Auditor Independence
… of client importance and audit firm size on juror evaluations of auditor liability and damage awards. Previous research in accounting shows that client importance can affect sophisticated financial statement users' perceptions of auditor independence. However, no study has investigated …
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Juvenile Court Judges and their Concerns about Vulnerability, Experienced Uncertainty and the Law: Extralegal Factors, Legal Considerations and Judicial Transfer Decision-making
In American juvenile law, the judicial transfer decision, or waiver of jurisdiction, is a legal maneuver by which young offenders are diverted away from the juvenile justice system and subsequently processed and adjudicated within adult systems of law. Although transfer decisions have a long …
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Observers' Perceptions of Rapport in Accusatorial Interrogations
… process by which confessions are produced. Thus, jurors are increasingly exposed to techniques including rapport-building and deception, which raises questions about how well-equipped they are to identify and understand the weight these strategies bear on suspects’ statements. In the present …
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Juror Evaluation of Eyewitness Evidence
… came from jury trials. These statistics suggest jurors lack understanding of what affects eyewitness’ memories and decisions. The current study assessed general knowledge of eyewitness procedures as well as mock jurors' evaluation of a hypothetical case that varied in the use of two lineup …
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