Jurors were surveyed on their general perceptions of the court system and factors that may cause stress immediately after trial, after participating in a post‐trial debriefing, and a month after trial. Jurors had an overall positive view of the court system but did report some perceived inequities. The two most stressful elements of jury duty were related to the complexity of the trial and the decision‐making involved in the trial, although jurors reported low levels of stress overall. Women reported more stress than men, and trial characteristics such as trial length also affected stress levels. The debriefing intervention was perceived as helpful, but jurors' stress levels were similar at pre‐ and post‐debriefing. Finally, although stress on some measures was lower at the 1 month follow‐up, this reduction was not moderated by whether or not jurors received the debriefing. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Age-appropriate authentic engineering problems offer educators opportunities to integrate math, science, and technology and foster higher-level learning. However, P-12 teachers typically do not have adequate access to or knowledge about engineering, which limits their ability to bring engineering into their classrooms. This study was conducted to document and analyze P-6 teachers' perceptions of engineering. As part of the pre-post assessment strategy for two different week-long INSPIRE Summer Academies (Local and National), teachers responded to two questions: "What is engineering?" and "What do engineers do?" Qualitative research methods were used to create coding schemes for the written responses to the two questions. Analysis resulted in the creation of seven main coding categories and twenty subcategories which were used to analyze teachers' responses. Findings indicate some significant differences between the two academies and changes in teachers' responses from pre to post-academy. This paper will articulate the methods used to analyze the responses and present findings from the pre and post teacher responses.

In the current study, we examined the influence of schema consistency on contradictory and additive misinformation. Sixty‐four participants were shown a series of still photographs of common scenes (e.g., a kitchen), were later exposed to narratives containing misinformation, and were then tested on their memory of the photographic scenes. In addition, participants were asked to reflect on their phenomenological experience of remembering by giving remember/know responses. Participants reported greater false memory for schema‐inconsistent items than schema‐consistent items. The findings failed to replicate Roediger, Meade, and Bergman (2001). Explanations for the discrepant findings are discussed. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

effects of PTP concerning both parties. Although prosecutorial behavior may provide fodder for media reports about criminal trials (e.g., coercion, fabricated evidence, police misconduct), the criminal justice system's paramount concern with defendants' rights understandably leads to an emphasis on PTP regarding the defendant. In a civil trial, on the other hand, either the plaintiff's or the defendant's right to a fair trial could be compromised by prejudicial PTP. The present research was designed to examine the effects of PTP in a civil case.How much prejudicial PTP in civil cases is actually released? Imrich, Mullin, and Linz (1995) conducted a content analysis of 14 popular U.S. newspapers over a period of 8 weeks. Overall, Imrich et al. found that 27% of the suspects in crime stories during the period were described in a prejudicial manner. Although a comparable analysis of PTP in civil cases has not been performed, Bailis and MacCoun (1996) sampled a number of national newsmagazines (e.g., Time, Newsweek) and found that they gave steady coverage to tort litigation. Moreover, they found that most of the coverage distorted actual court statistics. For example, the media considerably overrepresented plaintiffs' victory rate at trial. These studies suggest that a nontrivial percentage of participants in both the criminal and civil justice systems are subjected to media coverage containing information prejudicial to their case. More important for the legal system is the question of whether exposure to PTP influences jurors' verdicts. Although researchers disagree about whether there is enough empirical support to help the courts in establishing guidelines for PTP (Carroll et al., 1986;Fulero, 1987), in general, research has shown that exposure to PTP can serve to prejudice the jury against criminal defendants (