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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Mock jury"”.
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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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To Conform or Not to Conform: An Examination of the Effects of Mock Jury Deliberation on Individual Jurors
<p>The jury method is a unique social setting in the Criminal Justice system that provides opportunity for social influence 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 …
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How Psychology’s Empirical Results Can Benefit the Criminal Justice System: Expert Testimony
… to examine the most beneficial way to assist the jury in dealing with eyewitness testimony. Duckworth, Kreiner, Stark-Wroblewski, and Marsh (2011) applied interactive participation in an eyewitness activity and expert testimony to a mock-jury dealing with eyewitness testimony and found that those …
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Expert witness testimony in jury verdicts when battered women kill
… were to (a) explore the relationship between jury verdicts when traumatic brain injury expert testimony is provided and (b) examine the relationship between the verdicts when battered women syndrome expert witness testimony is provided, in Rowan University undergraduate students (N = 100). …
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The effects of social and spatial density upon attraction, crowding, task performance, and mood
… anagrams tasks, and served as members of a mock jury. Results indicated that subjects liked each other more in small groups than in large groups, that subjects in large rooms reported feeling more negative emotions than those in small rooms, that subjects felt more crowded in small rooms …
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Juror Bias in a Mock Case Involving a Defendant With Kleptomania
… mental illness has not received attention in the mock juror literature. The current study employed a mock jury paradigm to investigate both the impact of a kleptomania diagnosis and related causal attributions (biological vs. psychological) on the legal outcome for a defendant arrested for …
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An exploration of the impact of LGBT+ representative mock-juries on mock-juror bias and guilty verdicts in transphobic hate crime cases
… homogenous juries and the extra influence of the jury foreperson, yet UK juries are significantly under-represented in terms of LGBT+ jurors and jury forepersons. The Law Commission (LC, 2020) recommended aggravated offences be extended to transphobic hate crimes, but failed to address the lack of …
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Schematic effects of rape myth acceptance
… are asked to view visual material during a mock jury study. They see a photograph of the alleged scene of crime, the living room of the complainant. Depending upon condition participants view one of two photographs. In one of the photographs two stimuli are depicted that might be used by …
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The ‘non-ideal’ victim: factors influencing perceptions of sexual abuse victims
… access to justice. The first study adopted a mock-juror paradigm and study two saw the development and use of the brand new Interactive Mock Call (IMC) paradigm.<br/><br/>Study one showed that intoxicated victims are viewed less favourably and are perceived as less credible than sober …