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- Jurors who enter the courtroom with a bias towards the prosecution are more likely to see the evidence from the prosecution’s perspective, and dismiss the evidence presented from the defence (and vice versa when jurors have a defence bias).
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Feb 28, 2022 · Jurors who enter the courtroom with a bias towards the prosecution are more likely to see the evidence from the prosecution’s perspective, and dismiss the evidence presented from the defence (and...
Feb 28, 2022 · The aim of our recent review was to bring together different areas of psychology to identify potential sources of bias that may influence how jurors make decisions. We identified three main sources of bias: pre-trial bias; cognitive bias and bias originating from expert witnesses.
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Juror decision-making research investigates how individual jurors evaluate information and examines their pre-trial biases and the cognitive mechanisms behind the verdicts they reach. But jury decision-making research is more interested in the deliberation room, and the social processes that allow a verdict to be reached. It is important to first i...
Our research has shown that the mere process of making a decision can produce a bias. Over a series of experiments, we showed that sometimes jurors do not use all the information available to make a decision. We showed that verdicts favoured before all the information has been shown can lead to confirmation bias and pre-decisional distortion. Confi...
These results have a number of implications in relation to the courtroom. First, the legal system should give a warning to jurors of the effects of pre-decisional preferences, as previous research suggests that a warning of pre-decisional distortion can reduce the effects of cognitive biases. Second, future research should investigate the effects o...
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We identified three main sources of bias: pre-trial bias; cognitive bias and bias originating from expert witnesses. A significant part of the research literature has highlighted that pre-trial biases can influence the judgments of jurors.
Nov 2, 2022 · Juror decision-making research has one huge flaw: legal scholars are not allowed access to the jurors during a trial. So what we know about jurors is based upon mock juror simulations, and may not necessarily extend to a real courtroom. But there are two ways juror research could go forward.
Nov 30, 2012 · 2 Parliament has provided safeguards against jurors who may be corrupt or biased. In addition to the provision for majority verdicts, there is the sanction of a criminal offence for a...
biases affect a juror’s thought and decision-making process. It is not the presence and acknowledgement of a bias that automatically creates an inability to be fair and impartial, it is whether that bias is significant enough to impair the ability of a juror to fairly and impartially judge the case.
