Rationality, Equity or Deliberation in Mock-Jury Damage Awards

模拟陪审团损害赔偿中的理性、公平或深思熟虑

• 批准号: 8800603
• 负责人: Elizabeth Loftus
• 金额: $ 10.4万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1988
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1988-09-01 至 1991-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8800603&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Rationality; Equity; Deliberation; Mock; Jury

Previous research on the civil jury has focused on the magnitude of damage awards as an indicator of perceived liability and has not addressed the processes and strategies used by jurors in determining appropriate damages. This program of experimental research being undertaken by Drs. Loftus and Goodman seeks to examine the ways in which jurors and juries make decisions based on ambiguous and incomplete evidence on economic damages. Using potential jurors drawn from a list of registered voters, two mock-jury experiments are planned that focus on (a) the influence of general versus specific verdict forms on how juries go about awarding economic and non-economic damages and (b) the influence of perceived level of liability and the magnitude of the damages being sought on ultimate damage awards. These experiments promise important scientific contributions to the field: They should illuminate our knowledge of jurors' abilities to follow standard jury instructions distinguishing economic and non-economic considerations. In particular, the experiments should valuably speak to whether an actuarial verdict form is more likely to yield evidence-driven deliberation and a general verdict form more likely to yield verdict-driven discussion. Also, the work should add substantially to our understanding of whether jurors are able to separate issues of liability and damages and whether deliberation enables making that distinction. Finally, by obtaining pre- and post- deliberation data from jurors as well as full deliberation data from juries, these studies should contribute broadly to our knowledge of the impact of group process on legal judgments.

以往对民事陪审团的研究主要集中在 损害赔偿额作为认定赔偿责任的指标 也没有涉及陪审员使用的程序和策略 确定适当的损害赔偿。 这个实验性的计划 洛夫图斯和古德曼博士正在进行的研究旨在 审查陪审员和陪审团根据 关于经济损失的模糊和不完整的证据。 使用 从登记选民名单中选出的潜在陪审员，两名 模拟陪审团实验计划集中在（a）影响 关于陪审团如何运作的一般和具体的裁决形式 经济和非经济损害赔偿;（B）影响 责任的程度和损害的程度 正在寻求最终损害赔偿。 这些实验有望做出重要的科学贡献 到外地：他们应该照亮我们的陪审员的知识， 遵守标准陪审团指示的能力， 经济和非经济因素。 特别是 实验应该有价值地说明精算结论是否 形式更有可能产生证据驱动的审议和 一般判决形式更可能产生判决驱动 讨论 此外，这项工作应大大增加我们的 了解陪审员是否能够区分 责任和损害赔偿，以及审议是否能够使 这个区别。 最后，通过获得前和后， 来自陪审员的审议数据以及完整的审议数据 从陪审团，这些研究应该有助于我们广泛 了解群体过程对法律的判断的影响。