How pretrial publicity affects juror decision making and memory / Christine L. Ruva.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ruva, Christine L.

Series:

Laws and legislation series.

Laws and legislation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jury--United States--Decision making.

Jury.

Free press and fair trial--United States.

Free press and fair trial.

Jury--United States--Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (66 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Pretrial publicity (PTP) has been found to have a biasing effect on jury decision making. This chapter explores how research and theory in cognitive psychology has been used to examine the mechanisms responsible for PTP's biasing effects on jury decisions. This research can assist the courts in finding effective remedies for PTP bias. This research suggests that jury deliberations can increase (polarize) juror bias and therefore, cannot be counted on to remedy the effect of PTP on jury decision making. This book also reviews research and theory examining whether memory errors (e.g., source misattributions) and biases of individual jurors are likely to be corrected by jury members during deliberations.

Contents:

""HOW PRETRIAL PUBLICITY AFFECTS JUROR DECISION MAKING AND MEMORY""; ""HOW PRETRIAL PUBLICITY AFFECTS JUROR DECISION MAKING AND MEMORY ""; ""CONTENTS ""; ""PREFACE""; ""INTRODUCTION ""; ""REVERSE SUGGESTIBILITY PARADIGM AND SOURCE MEMORY THEORY""; ""VALENCE OF THE PTP AND SOURCE MEMORY""; ""IMPRESSION FORMATION AND VALENCE OF THE PTP ""; ""GROUP DECISION MAKING ""; ""Groups Catch Errors ""; ""Groups Balance out Biase""; ""EXPERIMENT 1 ""; ""OVERVIEW OF EXPERIMENT ""; ""HYPOTHESES ""; ""METHOD""; ""Participants ""; ""Design""; ""Stimuli ""; ""Trial ""; ""Pretrial Publicity ""; ""Measures ""

""Verdicts and Guilt Ratings """"Source Monitoring Test""; ""Credibility and Attorney Ratings ""; ""PROCEDURE ""; ""First Phase ""; ""Second Phase ""; ""RESULTS""; ""Predeliberation Guilt Measures ""; ""Post-Deliberation and Post- Source Memory Guilt Measures""; ""Source Memory Test, Critical Source Errors ""; ""Source Memory Test, Correct Judgments of Trial Items ""; ""Confidence in Source Memory Judgments ""; ""Credibility Measures""; ""Mediation Analyses ""; ""METHOD""; ""Participants ""; ""Design""; ""Procedure""; ""RESULTS ""; ""Guilt Measures ""

""Source Monitoring Test, Negative and Positive PTP Errors """"SOURCE MONITORING TEST, CORRECT JUDGMENTS OF TRIAL ITEMS ""; ""Credibility and Attorney Measures ""; ""Mediation Analyses ""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""IMPLICATIONS FOR LEGAL SYSTEM ""; ""REFERENCES ""; ""APPENDICES ""; ""INDEX ""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-61761-665-6