REACHING A VERDICT
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- Created on: 19-12-13 20:52
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- Reaching a Verdict
- Persuading a jury
- Pennington and Hastie
- To investigate the extent of impact story order evidence has on a jurors decision
- Cutler et al.
- To investigate if hearing about psychological research from a witness, which casts doubt on the accuracy of eye-witness testimony, affects jurors decision.
- Pickle
- 1) To look at the effects of prior convictions 2) To look at the role of the judge's instructions when they were followed by a legal explanation 3) To examine how much the credibility of the witness affects the juror's ability to ignore inadmissible statements.
- Pennington and Hastie
- Attractiveness of the defendant
- Castellow et al.
- To test the hypothesis that an attractive defendant is less likely to be seen as guilty, and that attractive victims are more likely to win their case
- Penrod and Cutler
- To examine several factors eg. confidence, that jurors might consider when evaluation eyewitness identification evidence
- Ross et al.
- To see if protective shields increased guilty verdicts, and the effects of protective devices on jury reaction
- Castellow et al.
- Reaching a verdict
- Hastie et al.
- Stages and influences on decision making
- Asch
- The effects of conformity to a majority
- Nameth and Wachtler.
- To investigate the influence of perceived autonomy
- Hastie et al.
- Persuading a jury
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