Reaching a Verdict A2 OCR
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- Reaching A Verdict
- PERSUADING A JURY
- Order of Testimony
- Story Order- where the defence/ prosecution present evidence in a chronological order. Witness Order- presenting their best witness first or last to take advantage of primacy/recency effects
- Pennigton & Hastie- to see whether story order is superior in gaining a conviction and the extent to which it affects confidence in decision making
- Inadmissible Evidence
- Pickel- To look at the role of the judge's instructions when they were followed by a legal explanation
- Inadmissible evidence- Hearsay, Prior Convictions and Improper evidence
- Expert Witnesses
- Cutler et al- The effect of the expert witness on jury perception of eyewitness testimony. IV- Witness Identifying Conditions, Witness Confidence, Form of Expert Testimony and Expert Opinion Expressed
- Order of Testimony
- WITNESS APPEAL
- Witness Confidence
- Penrod & Cutler- The effects of witness confidence on jurors' assessment of eyewitness evidence
- Attractiveness of the Defendant
- Castellow et al- The effects of physical attractiveness on jury verdicts
- Halo Effect- physically attractive people are assumed to have other attractive properties. Implicit Personality Theory- the first traits we recognise in other people influence how we interpret all the later ones because of our expectations.
- Effect of Shields and Videotape on Children giving Evidence
- Ross et al- The impact of protective shields and videotape testimony on conviction rates
- Witness Confidence
- REACHING A VERDICT
- Stages of Decision Making
- Hastie et al- the jury discussions go through the following stages. Orientation Period, Open Confrontation and Reconciliation
- Minority Influence
- Moscovici- to compare the impact of a consistent minority and an inconsistent minority on the views of the majority
- Majority Influence
- Solomon Asch- To investigate the effects of conformity on a majority when the task is unambigous
- Stages of Decision Making
- PERSUADING A JURY
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