PSYC 3310 Chapter 8: Chapter 8
12 May 2017
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Studying juries: criminal code prohibits jurors from disclosing any of their deliberations under threat of summary convictions (could result in a max sentence of 6 months and a fine of up to. If victim had engaged in extra marital sex or used drugs less likely to believe defendant is guilty: although post-trial interviews provide valuable insight into the jury. Jurors self-reports may be misremembered, inaccurate, coloured by a desire to present themselves in a favourable light: people are often unaware of the factors that influence their behaviour, data gathered through post-trial interviews is correlational. Jurors use a mental meter, that moves toward either guilty or not guilty verdict based on the weight of the evidence. Pieces of evidence as numerical weights, shift the mental meter in one direction or another. A particular piece of evidence may be so heavily weighted that the meter becomes frozen and further evidence does little to shift the jurors overall judgement.
