APS
29th APS Annual Convention · 2017
Testing Alternatives to Juror Rehabilitation: Knowledge and Attitudes Change but Not Verdicts
- Gabrielle Bate-Matchett
University of North Carolina Wilmington - Kristina Lamb
University of North Carolina Wilmington - Lydia Stellwag
University of North Carolina Wilmington - Faith Hanegraaff
University of North Carolina Wilmington - Len Lecci
University of North Carolina Wilmington
Abstract
291 participants in a nation-wide study served as mock jurors in an insanity defense trial, and were randomly assigned to standard rehabilitation, altered rehabilitation (use and success insanity defense statistics), and control conditions. The altered rehabilitation condition had more accurate estimates of use/success, more favorable attitudes, but fewer NGRI verdicts.
Judgment and Decision Making