Sigall & Ostrove : Attractiveness & jury decsion
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- Created on: 29-03-15 12:06
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- Sigall & Ostrove : attractiveness & jury decision
- Aim
- Whether attractiveness affected jury decision-making
- Procedure
- 120 people given card with crime on and photo of a woman
- 6 groups saw either attractive or unattractive and fraud or burgulary
- Rate on attractiveness and prison sentence from 1 - 15 years
- Results
- Table shows mean average length of sentence & attractiveness
- Similar length for both crimes with no photo and unattractive
- Attractive photo spend longer for fraud and less for burgulary
- Conclusion
- Good-looking people get away with some crimes, but if use looks for crime less likely to get away with it
- Strengths
- Good controls, same instructions, similar cases means less extraneous variables - reliable
- Control group to see if photo made difference
- no demand characteristics - didn't know what other group were doing
- Weaknesses
- Not realistic, not what jury would experience
- juries don't decide prison sentence only if guilty or not
- Aim
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