Social psych & Law

What factors affect the Jury?
- -Social cognition
- -Persuasion
- -Group Processes
- -Informational and normative influence
- -Prejudice and stereotyping
In a line up, should suspect and foils be presented simultaneously or sequentially?
- Sequentially, to avoid the ‘best guess’ problem
- -Foils should resemble suspect
Why have juries?
- Group recall > individual recall
- Forced deliberation requires in-depth thinking
- -----the use of central route (systematic) processing is increased
- Representativeness (diversity) of perspectives
- Attention focused on all of the evidence rather than selective pieces
- Restrains use of inadmissable evidence
- When the evidence is unambiguous and can be understood, most juries render verdicts consistent with it

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Holliidae

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Social psych & Law

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Social psych notes

Updated

2010-12-15T05:31:12Z

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