The Role of Emotion and Motivation in Jury Decision-Making

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Holloway ◽  
Richard L. Wiener
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Information Processing ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Deleterious Effect ◽  
Jury Decision Making ◽  
Subjective Evaluations ◽  
American Law ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Jury Decision

Abstract: American law requires jurors to impartially evaluate information presented during trial to render a just verdict based primarily—if not solely—on relevant facts of the case. These expectations leave little room for emotion-driven subjective evaluations, fostering instead an expectation of juror objectivity, which serves as a foundation for a fair and just legal system. The legal community acknowledges the potentially deleterious effect that emotion can have on juror objectivity. Yet the response, which relies on procedural safeguards to prevent against affect infusion, is limited by a lack of understanding of the depth with which emotion directs information processing, motivates judgment, and ultimately drives decision-making. This chapter summarizes theories of emotion and decision-making, applies emotion research findings to a legal scenario to challenge the assumption of juror objectivity, and proposes a system that recognizes and accounts for the variety of ways affect impacts jury decision-making.

An Information-Processing Model of Jury Decision Making

1991 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 524-547 ◽  
Author(s):  
FRANKLIN J. BOSTER ◽  
JOHN E. HUNTER ◽  
JEROLD L. HALE
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Information Processing ◽  
Jury Decision Making ◽  
Information Processing Model ◽  
Jury Decision

Psychology and the Legal System: An Interview with Edie Greene

2003 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Douglas Woody
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Eyewitness Memory ◽  
Jury Decision Making ◽  
University Of Washington ◽  
Psychology And Law ◽  
University Of Colorado ◽  
Doctoral Work ◽  
Jury Decision ◽  
The University

William Douglas Woody completed his doctoral work at Colorado State University and is now Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Northern Colorado. He teaches and conducts research in the areas of psychology and the law, social psychology, and history and systems of psychology. He is the recipient of regional and national teaching awards. While completing his doctoral work, Doug started collaborating with Edie Greene on projects related to civil jury decision making. Edie Greene earned her BA in psychology from Stanford University, her MA from the University of Colorado–Boulder, and her PhD in psychology and law from the University of Washington. Additionally, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Washington from 1983 to 1986, and she served as Fellow in Law and Psychology at Harvard Law School from 1994 to 1995. Edie is currently Professor of Psychology at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs where she conducts research on jury trials, eyewitness memory, and other topics in psychology and law. Her work has been funded by number of federal agencies, and she has earned extensive research recognition including an award from her college for Outstanding Research and Creative Works. Edie is a coauthor of the textbook Psychology and the Legal System (5th ed.), published by Wadsworth (2002), and she coauthored Determining Damages: The Psychology of Jury Awards, published by the American Psychological Association (2002). She has published more than 70 articles and book chapters as well as an annotated bibliography on the adversarial system (Strier & Greene, 1990). In addition to conducting research, she has served as a trial consultant, and she has testified extensively as an expert witness on eyewitness memory and jury decision making. Edie has been active in the American Psychology–Law Society in numerous roles including membership on the executive committee. She serves on the editorial boards of Law and Human Behavior and Psychology, Public Policy and Law.

On the Role of Marketing in the Product Liability Trial

1983 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
John C. Mowen
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Product Liability ◽  
Jury Decision Making ◽  
Substantial Role ◽  
Jury Decision

Product liability is a growing threat to business. This paper argues that marketers have a substantial role to play in assisting in the corporate defense. A model of jury decision making is developed and a review of relevant literature is provided. Finally, potential areas in which marketers can aid corporate counsel in product liability defense are delineated.

Jury Decision Making in the Context of Excuse Defenses

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher S. Peters ◽  
James Michael Lampinen ◽  
William Blake Erickson ◽  
Lindsey Nicole Sweeney ◽  
Brad Zeiler ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Jury Decision Making ◽  
Jury Decision

Making a biased jury decision: Using the Steven Avery murder case to investigate potential influences in jury decision-making.

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 429-436
Author(s):  
Lourdes Rodriguez ◽  
Stephanie Agtarap ◽  
Adriel Boals ◽  
Nathan T. Kearns ◽  
Lee Bedford
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Jury Decision Making ◽  
Jury Decision

scholarly journals The Role of Religiosity on Fashion Store Patronage Intention of Muslim Consumers in Indonesia

SAGE Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 215824402092703
Author(s):  
Andriani Kusumawati ◽  
Sari Listyorini ◽  
Suharyono ◽  
Edy Yulianto
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Consumer Decision Making ◽  
Fashion Products ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Store Patronage ◽  
Life Values ◽  
Patronage Intention

Religiosity covers all aspects of human life values. Consumer decision-making in Muslim product purchase needs to involve religiosity. Muslim fashion is increasingly popular and becomes a potential business for fashion entrepreneurs in Indonesia. This condition evokes a dilemma for the consumers as Muslim fashion users on whether they have to conform to the religious sharia or follow the trend. The purpose of this article is to identify the role of religiosity as a factor affecting Muslim consumers to revisit Muslim fashion stores. This research involved 243 Muslim consumers of several Muslim fashion stores. The results showed that religiosity of Muslim consumers had a direct effect on patronage intention and indirect effect on patronage intention of Muslim fashion stores through Customer Satisfaction. The research findings are directed to managerial implications for Muslim fashion entrepreneurs in relation to consumer religiosity and marketing of Indonesian Muslim fashion products.

An Undergraduate Course in Psychology and the Law

1987 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 238-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edith Greene ◽  
Edith Greene
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Dispute Resolution ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Alternative Dispute Resolution ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Plea Bargaining ◽  
Jury Decision Making ◽  
Teaching Aids ◽  
The Law ◽  
Jury Decision

This article describes a course that bridged the disciplines of clinical and experimental psychology and the law. The course included discussion of issues in criminal law, such as the psychology of policing, the reliability of confessions, victimization, plea bargaining, jury decision making, and alternative dispute resolution, and in civil law, such as civil commitment, predicting dangerousness, and child custody. Course objectives, requirements, and teaching aids are outlined, and some thoughts on integrating these diverse topics are included.

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