PSYC 2400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Likert Scale, Scantron Corporation, Paul Bernardo
19 Oct 2016
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Reading: chapter 7: yes, they should not have bias. Probably not: race, gender, looks, past experiences, opinion of other jurors. Can publicity influence jurors" verdicts: yes. Threats to impartiality (also in textbook, read more thoroughly) Pre-trial publicity: exposure to negative pre-trial publicity increases guilty verdicts, e. g. , paul bernardo, robert pickton. Preventing the media from publishing anything or talking about it: change of venue. Moving the location of the trial (ex: paul bernardo case: adjournment. Waiting for it to cool down: challenge for cause. Deciding if jury members are bias and able to be on the case. Post-trial interviews: (not legal in canada) jurors talk about the case they were put on. Archives: records and transcripts from the trials, look at correlations between groups. Simulation: the main way, mock trial, mock crime, find things that may have been experimental manipulated, high internal validity.
