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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Mock jurors"”.
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Mock jurors’ perceptions of children testifying via a language interpreter
… participants in Study 2 listened to two mock investigative interviews, one with a 7-year-old child and one with a 14-year-old adolescent. Half listened to interpreter-mediated interviews in a language in which the participant was not proficient (i.e., Spanish or English). Findings …
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Mock Jurors' Recommended Sentences for Perpetrators who have Traumatic Experiences
… influence on the severity of the sentence that mock jurors would recommend for that perpetrator. The mock jurors’ trait empathy, Belief in a Just World, and their own traumatic experiences were assessed to determine whether these characteristics could account for the variation in recommended …
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Mock jurors' perceptions of "I don't know" answers in child testimony
… examined the impact of using this strategy on jurors’ perceptions of child witness credibility. The present study assessed 702 mock jurors’ perceptions of a 4- or 10-year-old child witness in a fabricated sexual assault trial transcript. Number of “don’t know” responses were manipulated, and …
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Impact of Class-based Prejudice toward Defendants and Victims on Mock Jurors' Decision-Making
… in the analyses. Results of Study 1 showed that mock jurors, regardless of their own social class, are biased against upper class defendants who are described as representing a realistic threat to the community. This bias is not apparent when there is no threat or a symbolic threat. The …
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Mock jurors' judgements of the victim, crime and defendant as a function of victim race and deliberation
… that extra-legal variables often affect jurors' judgements and improperly influence their decision-making. Examples of extra-legal variables include the personal attributes of trial participants, e.g., the victim's physical attractiveness, socio-economic status, and age. Studies conducted …
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Race and ethnicity influences on mock-juror evaluations of eyewitness testimony.
… race/ethnicity to examine their influence on mock jurors' decisions in a criminal case. In Experiment 1, Black mock jurors rated the testimony of an eyewitness as more credible and more important to their decisions when the eyewitness and defendant were of the same race, while White mock …
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Black Sheep Effects on Juror Verdicts
… of the black sheep. Participants acted as mock jurors and chose a verdict for the defendant based on a vignette followed by a photo of the defendant. Race, the commonality shared between the defendants and mock jurors, acted as an automatic group divider. Participants analyzed were of …
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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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Perceptions of juvenile confessions as a function of police report and questioning quality
Recent research has shown that mock jurors are sensitive to interrogation coerciveness and its relation to risk of false confessions in adults if they can see interrogation tactics used, but not if provided with a police report that omits these tactics (Kassin et al., 2017). The present study was …
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The impact of gruesome evidence on mock juror decision making : the role of evidence characteristics and emotional response
… investigate 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 …
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Understanding How Jurors Award Civil Damages: A Test of Affect Control Theory
… damage awards among 377 juror eligible mock jurors. Citizens reporting for jury duty in a large metropolitan county on five days when the study was conducted were invited to participate. Scenarios were created that varied both case facts and witness emotion during trial testimony. …
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Mental disorder labelling as an extralegal variable in mock jury deliberations
… made about the victim, crime and defendant in a mock jury setting, as well as investigating mock juror gender differences. A representative sample of people eligible for jury duty in Western Australia viewed a video vignette depicting a trial, in which the mental disorder label (no label, …
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The effects of expert witness testimony on juror verdict: psychiatry versus psychology
… Undergraduate and graduate students served as mock jurors and were presented with an insanity case which either (a) a PhD testified for the defense and a MD testified for the prosecution or (b) an MD testified for the defense and a PhD testified for the prosecution. After analysis of verdicts, …
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Can jury instructions reduce the negative impact of pretrial publicity?
… to a trial, raises concerns about fair trials. Jurors may rely on pretrial information rather than trial information to decide the fate of a defendant and may even confuse the sources of the information. While it is difficult to limit jurors’ exposure to PTP, jury instructions to improve memory …
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Effects of child age and type of detail reported on credibility of child abuse allegations
… a play event four times were rated by mock jurors as less accurate and less believable than children who experienced it once, although there was no difference in their actual accuracy (Connolly, Price, Lavoie, & Gordon, 2008). In the present study, 405 undergraduate students read one of …
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The Effects of Variations of Victim Impact Statements on Juror Bias
… has found an effect of these variations on mock juror bias in capital trials. The current study examined if variations such as changing the strength of emotion, crime type, and including sentencing recommendation within a VIS affects the judgements of mock jurors. The results showed the …
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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.
… 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 testimony were more likely …
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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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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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The Influence of Opinions on Remembering Revisited
… of opinion related material. After a delay, mock jurors' recognition of material presented on a videotaped rape trial was consistent with their pre-trial opinions. Results relating to five more specific questions about the exact nature of the influence of opinions in remembering are also …
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