ICPS
2019 International Convention of Psychological Science · 2019
Inherently Helpful or Potentially Hurtful: The Mnemonic Consequences of Jury Deliberation
- Alexander Jay
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY - Charles Stone
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY - Robert Meksin
New School - Clinton Merck
The New School for Social Research - Natalie Gordon
The Graduate Center and John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY - William Hirst
The New School for Social Research
Abstract
Do jury deliberations shape jurors' memories through the robust memory phenomena of Retrieval-Induced Forgetting (RIF), or Retrieval-Induced Facilitation (RIFA)? The results indicate that rather than forgetting, deliberations produce facilitation effects in speakers’ open-ended recall of evidentiary details, suggesting that deliberations help, rather than hurt, jurors' memories for trial evidence.
Memory
