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An investigation of persuasion and sentencing severity with mock juries
Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 1986AbstractThe extent to which the personal characteristics of individual mock jurors affect participation and influence with other jurors within the deliberation process was the focus of this investigation. A predeliberation locus of control measure, along with two conditions of jury composition (heterogenous vs homogenous with respect to the locus of ...
Yvonne Hardaway Osborne +2 more
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Effects of Offenders' Age and Attractiveness on Sentencing by Mock Juries
Psychological Reports, 1979Pictures of physically attractive or unattractive women, who were either young or old, were attached to case reports of either a swindle or a burglary. “Juries” of three female college students each were then asked to sentence the “defendants” to between 1 and 10 yr. in jail.
E D, Smith, A, Hed
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Alternative decision schemes for six-person mock juries
Organizational Behavior and Human Performance, 1979Abstract In a recent empirical study of six-person mock juries, Davis, Kerr, Stasser, Meek, and Holt (1977) concluded, on the basis of a chi-square test, that “the only social decision scheme that provided a statistically acceptable account of the verdicts observed … was formally defined by the matrix D 15 .” Here it is shown that numerous other ...
Peter H Schonemann
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Computer Animation in Mock Juries' Decision Making
Psychological Reports, 1995This experiment examined the effect of different presentation modes of demonstrative evidence on mock jurors' perceptions of defendants' responsibility for a fatal accident. The experiment involved opening arguments of a mock civil lawsuit based on facts derived from an actual commercial jet crash.
John Houston
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Victim consequences, sentence severity, and decision processes in mock juries
Organizational Behavior and Human Performance, 1977Six-person juries and parallel individuals watched a mock trial (prerecorded on video tape) under conditions where the victim of an alleged rape had purportedly suffered either mild or severe consequences, and the defendant could receive either a moderate or harsh sentence if convicted.
Garold Stasser
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Effects of the dynamite charge on the deliberations of deadlocked mock juries.
Law and Human Behavior, 1993When juries report that they are deadlocked, judges often deliver the dynamite charge, a supplemental instruction that urges jurors to rethink their views in an effort to reach a unanimous verdict. The present study evaluated the impact of this procedure on 378 subjects who participated in 63 deadlocked mock juries.
Saul Kassin
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Deliberating about terrorism: Prejudice and jury verdicts in a mock terrorism trial
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 2011Juries in many Western countries are being asked to make decisions about defendants charged with terrorist-related offences, in situations where heightened anxieties and hostility to outgroups may make a fair trial difficult. What impact can deliberation have in addressing any such prejudice?
David Tait
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Authoritarianism and decisions of mock juries: Evidence of jury bias and group polarization.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1978Robert M Bray
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Mock Jurors Versus Mock Juries: The Role of Deliberations in Reactions to Inadmissible Testimony
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1994The consensus among authors in the area of juridic decision making is that trial jurors often readily disregard judicial instructions to ignore inadmissible evidence. Perhaps, however, the moderating influence of a key methodological variable-the presence or absence of group deliberations-has been overlooked by those making this assertion.
Jeffrey Kerwin, David R. Shaffer
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Racial diversity and group decision‐making in a mock jury experiment
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 2022Abstract The primary goal of this research was to determine whether the racial composition of a jury impacts the outcome and deliberation in a civil retail discrimination lawsuit. We presented a retail discrimination trial video to 30 separate mock juries.
Anne‐Marie Hakstian +5 more
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