Reality check: A comparison of college students and a community sample of mock jurors in a simulated sexual violent predator civil commitment

McCabe, John G.; Krauss, Daniel A.; Lieberman, Joel D.

doi:10.1002/bsl.902

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“…Future research in this area should ideally use community, rather than student, samples (see Keller & Wiener, 2011;McCabe, Krauss, & Lieberman, 2010). In this sample, racial attitudes were neutral and not particularly variable, which may account for the lack of findings with regards to racial attitudes.…”

Section: Limitations and Future Directionsmentioning

confidence: 89%

The influence of defendant race and victim physical attractiveness on juror decision-making in a sexual assault trial

Maeder

Yamamoto

Saliba

2014

Psychology, Crime & Law

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Previous research has examined separately the influence of defendant race and victim physical attractiveness on juror decision-making in sexual assault trials. The current study sought to examine the combined effects of defendant race and victim physical attractiveness in a trial of alleged acquaintance sexual assault. Mock jurors read a trial transcript in which the defendant race and victim physical attractiveness were manipulated via photographs. Results demonstrated that women were not influenced by victim attractiveness, but that men were more certain of the defendant guilt when the victim was unattractive. Defendant race and victim attractiveness interacted with regards to victim responsibility ratings -when the defendant was White, attractive victims were rated as more responsible for the alleged assault than unattractive victims; this effect was reversed for trials with a Black defendant and nonexistent for trials with an Aboriginal Canadian defendant.

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Section: Limitations and Future Directionsmentioning

confidence: 89%

The influence of defendant race and victim physical attractiveness on juror decision-making in a sexual assault trial

Maeder

Yamamoto

Saliba

2014

Psychology, Crime & Law

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“…McCabe and found that a community sample had higher rational scores (i.e., NFC) and higher experiential (i.e., FI) scores than students-but the two groups were examined in two different studies so no direct statistical comparison was made. In contrast, McCabe, Krauss, and Lieberman (2010) found that students scored higher on the NFC measure than community members. Furthermore, whether NFC and FI are related to legal decision making might depend on the identity of the decision maker.…”

Section: Students Versus Community Membersmentioning

confidence: 91%

Relationships Between Support for the Death Penalty and Cognitive Processing

Miller

Wood

Chomos

2013

Criminal Justice and Behavior

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Cognitive Experiential Self-Theory (CEST) posits that individuals process information rationally (measured by Need for Cognition [NFC]) or experientially (measured by Faith in Intuition [FI]). This study investigated whether information processing traits (NFC and FI) and states (CEST logic problems) are related to general death penalty attitude and sentencing verdict-and whether these relationships differed for students versus community members. FI and NFC were related to sentencing verdicts. An increase in FI was related to a higher likelihood of a death sentence; an increase in NFC was related to a higher likelihood of a life sentence. CEST logic problems were related to sentencing verdicts and general attitudes. However, these relationships were moderated: For community members, but not students, a decrease in rational processing was related to a higher likelihood of a death sentence and support for the death penalty. Results have implications for psychology and the legal system.

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“…The question debated in the field of psychology and law is whether those aspects influence legal decision-making, or even decision-making in only certain types of cases (Bornstein, 1999;Diamond, 1997;Wiener, Krauss, & Lieberman, 2011). Compared with community members called for jury duty, undergraduate students are usually younger, of relatively high SES, have higher need for cognition (i.e., the extent to which people enjoy effortful thinking; Cacioppo & Petty, 1982), and are less likely to be parents (McCabe, Krauss & Lieberman, 2010;Sears, 1986;Quas, Thompson, & Clarke-Stewart, 2005). But there is little evidence that these factors are linked to decision-making in child sexual abuse cases (e.g., McCauley & Parker, 2001).…”

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Explaining Gender Differences in Jurors' Reactions to Child Sexual Assault Cases

Bottoms

Peter-Hagene

Stevenson

et al. 2014

Behavioral Sci & The Law

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In three experiments, we investigated the influence of juror, victim, and case factors on mock jurors' decisions in several types of child sexual assault cases (incest, day care, stranger abduction, and teacher-perpetrated abuse). We also validated and tested the ability of several scales measuring empathy for child victims, children's believability, and opposition to adult/child sex, to mediate the effect of jurors' gender on case judgments. Supporting a theoretical model derived from research on the perceived credibility of adult rape victims, women compared to men were more empathic toward child victims, more opposed to adult/child sex, more pro-women, and more inclined to believe children generally. In turn, women (versus men) made more pro-victim judgments in hypothetical abuse cases; that is, attitudes and empathy generally mediated this juror gender effect that is pervasive in this literature. The experiments also revealed that strength of case evidence is a powerful factor in determining judgments, and that teen victims (14 years old) are blamed more for sexual abuse than are younger children (5 years old), but that perceptions of 5 and 10 year olds are largely similar. Our last experiment illustrated that our findings of mediation generalize to a community member sample.

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Reality check: A comparison of college students and a community sample of mock jurors in a simulated sexual violent predator civil commitment

Cited by 58 publications

References 39 publications

The influence of defendant race and victim physical attractiveness on juror decision-making in a sexual assault trial

The influence of defendant race and victim physical attractiveness on juror decision-making in a sexual assault trial

Relationships Between Support for the Death Penalty and Cognitive Processing

Explaining Gender Differences in Jurors' Reactions to Child Sexual Assault Cases

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