Racial and evidential factors in juror attribution of legal responsibility

Ugwuegbu, Denis Chimaeze E.

doi:10.1016/0022-1031(79)90025-8

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“…This relatively weak relationship between demographic factors and mock jurors' judgments refl ects the mediating effect of the type of case (Horowitz, 1980). For example, in a rape case, female mock jurors are often more likely than male mock jurors to fi nd a rape defendant guilty (e.g., Ugwuegbu, 1979); when the crime is murder, however, there is no sex difference (Bray & Noble, 1978).…”

Section: Who Are the Jurors?mentioning

confidence: 99%

The ecological validity of jury simulations: Is the jury still out?

Bornstein¹

1999

Law and Human Behavior

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Section: Who Are the Jurors?mentioning

confidence: 99%

The ecological validity of jury simulations: Is the jury still out?

Bornstein¹

1999

Law and Human Behavior

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“…For example, Ugwuegbu (1979) used White participants in one study and Black participants in a second study, making the statistical comparison of Whites and Blacks impossible. More recently, Skolnick and Shaw (1997) found that White mock jurors treated White and Black defendants equally but Black mock jurors were more punitive toward a White defendant.…”

Section: Jurydecisionmakingisacomplexsetofpsychologicalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Race in the Courtroom: Perceptions of Guilt and Dispositional Attributions

Sommers

Ellsworth

2000

Pers Soc Psychol Bull

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The present studies compare the judgments of White and Black mock jurors in interracial trials. In Study 1, the defendant’s race did not influence White college students’ decisions but Black students demonstrated ingroup/outgroup bias in their guilt ratings and attributions for the defendant’s behavior. The aversive nature of modern racism suggests that Whites are motivated to appear nonprejudiced when racial issues are salient; therefore, the race salience of a trial summary was manipulated and given to noncollege students in Study 2. Once again, the defendant’s race did not influence Whites when racial issues were salient. But in the non-race-salient version of the same interracial case, White mock jurors rated the Black defendant more guilty, aggressive, and violent than the White defendant. Black mock jurors demonstrated same-race leniency in both versions of the trial, suggesting that racial issues are generally salient in the minds of Black jurors in interracial cases with Black defendants.

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“…A number of studies have shown that the activation of stereotypes is used as a basis for judgments directly or independently of other available information (e.g., Anderson, 1983;Bodenhausen & Wyer, 1985;Sagar & Schofield, 1980;Ugwuegbu, 1979). For example, Bodenhausen and Wyer (1985) found that the activation of a stereotype eliminated the influence of some variety of nonstereotypic information.…”

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confidence: 96%

Global product stereotypes and heuristic processing: The impact of ambient task complexity

Hadjimarcou

1999

Psychol. Mark.

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Racial and evidential factors in juror attribution of legal responsibility

Cited by 133 publications

References 12 publications

The ecological validity of jury simulations: Is the jury still out?

The ecological validity of jury simulations: Is the jury still out?

Race in the Courtroom: Perceptions of Guilt and Dispositional Attributions

Global product stereotypes and heuristic processing: The impact of ambient task complexity

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