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Victim consequences, sentence severity, and decision processes in mock juries

Organizational Behavior and Human Performance, 1977
Six-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, 1993
When 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, 2011
Juries 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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Mock Jurors Versus Mock Juries: The Role of Deliberations in Reactions to Inadmissible Testimony

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1994
The 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, 2022
Abstract 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, Sophia R. Evett, James S. Hoffmann, Jane M. Marshall, Emory A. L. Boyland, Jerome D. Williams   +5 more
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Religion as a Defense in a Mock-Jury Trial

The Journal of Social Psychology, 1985
Abstract Forty-nine residents of “Middletown” and 121 students in the roles of jurors viewed videotapes of an abbreviated child abuse trial, in which the accused was portrayed by a defense attorney as religious or in which his religious character was not used as a defense.
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Asymmetric influence in mock jury deliberation: Jurors' bias for leniency.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1988
Investigators have frequently noted a leniency bias in mock jury research, in which deliberation appears to induce greater leniency in criminal mock jurors. One manifestation of this bias, the asymmetry effect, suggests that proacquittal factions are more influential than proconviction factions of comparable size.
R J, MacCoun, N L, Kerr
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Reactance and Conflict as Determinants of Judgment in a Mock Jury Experiment

Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 1981
In a mock jury experiment, college students read a partial transcript of an actual rape case. Transcripts differed in the following ways: damaging evidence was introduced against the defendant, the victim, or an inconsequential witness; following an attorney's objection, the evidence was ruled admissible or inadmissable by the judge; at the end of the ...
Gregory E. Lenehan, Patrick O'Neill
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Biological Evidence Regarding Psychopathy Does Not Affect Mock Jury Sentencing

Journal of Personality Disorders, 2019
Research on the biological factors influencing criminal behavior is increasingly being introduced into court, necessitating research on how such evidence is perceived and influences decision makers. Research on how this evidence influences sentencing recommendations is inconclusive. In this study, we focus on biological evidence related to psychopathy,
Rheanna J, Remmel, Andrea L, Glenn, Jennifer, Cox   +2 more
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Mock Jury Research: Where Do We Go from Here?

Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 2011
This paper reviews the four types of validity that make up Cook and Campbell's traditional approach for social science research in general and psychological research in particular: internal validity, statistical conclusion validity, external validity, and construct validity. The most important generalizability threat to the validity of jury research is
Richard L, Wiener, Daniel A, Krauss, Joel D, Lieberman   +2 more
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