“The verdict is in: A study of jury decision making factors, moment of personal decision, and jury deliberations—from the jurors' point of view”

Pettus, Anne Burnett

doi:10.1080/01463379009369743

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“…This is consistent with other research in juror (e.g. Kuhn et al, 1994;Pennington, 1981;Pennington and Hastie, 1993;Pettus, 1990) and informal reasoning (e.g. Baron, 1991b;Kuhn, 1991), as well as real trials.…”

Section: Juror-reasoning Tasksupporting

confidence: 80%

The everyday production of knowledge: individual differences in epistemological understanding and juror‐reasoning skill

Weinstock

Cronin

2002

Applied Cognitive Psychology

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This study investigated the untested assumption that people's everyday reasoning reflects different understandings of the nature of knowledge and knowing. The epistemological stances of 180 prospective jurors were assessed with an interview that probed the nature and source of the discrepant knowledge claims of two historical accounts. The researchers derived global epistemological levels from these interviews. The jurors also heard trials and offered justifications for their verdict choices. The researchers assessed these justifications for whether subjects could use various reasoning skills successfully. Epistemological level, but not educational level, age, or gender, predicted juror-reasoning skills and degree of certainty about verdict choice. Epistemological level, mediated by the juror-reasoning skills, was a better predictor of general argument skill than certainty about verdict choice and the amount of evidence used in arguing for a verdict. The results indicate that epistemological understandings underlie specific juror-reasoning skills and overall argument ability.

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Section: Juror-reasoning Tasksupporting

confidence: 80%

The everyday production of knowledge: individual differences in epistemological understanding and juror‐reasoning skill

Weinstock

Cronin

2002

Applied Cognitive Psychology

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“…Research that has examined communication processes has revealed that jurors do talk about procedures during deliberation (Pettus, 1990;Simon, 1967). Only a few investigators have attempted to analyze the content of deliberation (see Simon's Downloaded by [McGill University Library] at 14:11 14 October 2014 study, 1967, in which comments on deliberation procedure constituted 26% of jury talk, with 29% reflecting opinions on the facts of the case, a comparable portion).…”

Section: Jurors' Intuitive Rules For Deliberation: a Structurational mentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Although simulated trials have been useful in highlighting factors that potentially contribute to the final verdict, they have yielded incomplete results not confirmed by actual jurors (Pettus, 1990) and have largely ignored the communication processes of deliberation. Kerwin and Shaffer (1994) have also criticized mock jury designs that use individual responses without requiring deliberation.…”

Section: Jurors' Intuitive Rules For Deliberation: a Structurational mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Davis (1973Davis ( , 1992, for example, has contributed substantial research, incorporating a stochastic model and applying Social Decision Scheme Theory, which suggests that the final decision of a group can be predicted from the initial preference distribution of group members, together with knowledge of the decision rule they follow (e.g., unanimous decision). Further, when real jurors have been studied, interviews take place after jurors have been excused (e.g., Pettus, 1990;Reifman et al, 1992), which can be contaminated by an individual's difficulty in reconstructing mental processes, among many other problems.…”

Section: Jurors' Intuitive Rules For Deliberation: a Structurational mentioning

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Jurors' intuitive rules for deliberation: A structurational approach to communication injury decision making

Sunwolf

Seibold

1998

Communication Monographs

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Consistent with growing interest in bona fide groups and taking a structurational approach to members' appropriation of rules for decision making, this study was an investigation of potential jurors' intuitive rules for deliberation. Following a summary, critique, and reconceptualization of jury research, we discuss five communicative challenges juries face in the course of their deliberations (selecting a leader, agreeing on voting procedures, determining whether to request assistance from the court, reporting member misconduct, and handling disagreement about whether to continue deliberating) and report results of a content analysis reflecting the rules invoked for each of these situations by 97 citizens summoned for jury duty and waiting for jury service at a courthouse in a judicial district in the western United States.

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“…[12]. While hundreds of kCi are created in either nuclear fuel burn-up or neutron irradiation of actinide targets [17], the volume and rate of reprocessing necessary for accumulation of such an amount of 144 Ce presents a significant challenge. Possible avenues for 144 Ce processing of this magnitude are currently being explored.…”

Section: B Source Locationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Search for sterile neutrinos with a radioactive source at Daya Bay

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The far site detector complex of the Daya Bay reactor experiment is proposed as a location to search for sterile neutrinos with ≥ eV mass. Antineutrinos from a 500 kCi 144 Ce-144 Pr β-decay source (∆Q = 2.996 MeV) would be detected by four identical 20-ton antineutrino targets. The site layout allows flexible source placement; several specific source locations are discussed. In one year, the 3+1 sterile neutrino hypothesis can be tested at essentially the full suggested range of the parameters ∆m 2 new and sin 2 2θnew (90% C.L.). The backgrounds from six nuclear reactors at ≥1.6 km distance are shown to be manageable. Advantages of performing the experiment at the Daya Bay far site are described.

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“The verdict is in: A study of jury decision making factors, moment of personal decision, and jury deliberations—from the jurors' point of view”

Cited by 21 publications

References 18 publications

The everyday production of knowledge: individual differences in epistemological understanding and juror‐reasoning skill

The everyday production of knowledge: individual differences in epistemological understanding and juror‐reasoning skill

Jurors' intuitive rules for deliberation: A structurational approach to communication injury decision making

Search for sterile neutrinos with a radioactive source at Daya Bay

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