WWS 345 Lecture 14: Lecture 14

• School: Princeton University
• Department: Woodrow Wilson School
• Course: WWS 345
• Professor: Stacey Sinclair

Document Summary

Ethnic minorities more likely to be wrongfully convicted (innocence project) Eyewitness misidentification is the greatest cause of wrongful conviction (innocence project) Perception that outgroup members are more similar to each other than ingroup members. Own race bias = people less able to remember individual outgroup faces than ingroup faces. Participants were 1. 4 times more likely to correctly identify own race. Participants were 1. 5 times more likely to falsely identify other race. Blacks receive harsher sentences in capital cases (death sentence) controlling for other factors (e. g. , baldus et al. , 2009), particularly if they harmed white people. Tendency for participants to give harsher sentences to out-group members compared to ingroup members. Participants more likely to think guilty for outgroups (d = Harsher sentences for outgroup members (d = . 19) No instructions for verdict (d = . 15) Can"t eliminate juror based on race but .