Persuading a Jury

KeyStudy1:Pennington and Hastie-Effects of memory structure on judgement

Aim:To investigate whether the order of how informtion is given to jury members from witnesses has an affect on the memory.

Procedure:

• 130 students from Northwestern and chicago University.
• paid to participate
• hour long laboratory experiments.
• Allocated one of four conditions.

1.prosecution:story order

   Defence:witness order

2.Prosecution:witness order

   Defence:story order.

3.Prosecution:witness order.

   Defence:witness order

4.Prosecution:wintess order

   Defence:story…