Doctoral Dissertation Research: Jury decision making and the Story Model - How do evidence order and deliberation style influence the story juries create?

PI和Co-PI：Kevin M.奥尼尔和玛格丽特里尔登（合作PI）标题：博士论文研究：陪审团决策和故事模型-证据顺序和审议风格如何影响陪审团创造的故事？0719947项目摘要陪审团是我国司法制度的基石。尽管它很重要，但人们对陪审团如何做出决定却知之甚少。有研究影响个别陪审员的因素，但这些研究并没有阐明这些个人判断如何成为整个陪审团的一致裁决。为了开始理解这一过程，本研究将一个综合的陪审员决策模型（故事模型）应用于陪审团的决策过程。故事模型认为，陪审员从他们在审判中听到的证据中创造一个故事，然后这个故事指导他们的判决决定。本研究旨在探讨陪审团在审议过程中是否创造了一个“集体故事”，如果是的话，这个集体故事是否与裁决有关，是否受到证据出示顺序和审议风格等因素的影响。集体故事将通过共同陪审团的每个成员共享的故事元素和因果链接的数量来衡量。模拟陪审员将在观看模拟刑事审判的视频后进行商议。审议将被录像，转录，并编码，以允许定性分析陪审团的故事，包括证据的类型和因果关系的联系讨论。此外，记忆和反应时间测试将提供必要的定量数据，以检查陪审团的故事。该提案的智力价值在于陪审员决策的既定理论模型的新颖应用，以分析群体层次的过程。因此，本研究扩展了工作的故事模型，研究其效用描述陪审团的决定。该提案的更广泛影响在于它能够更好地了解我们司法制度的一个基本方面-陪审团。这项研究也将在一所大型研究型大学进行，该大学主要为西班牙裔学生提供服务，让少数民族学生有机会作为研究助理参与大规模的研究。这种经验将大大有助于学生的研究知识，并将进一步提高他们的能力，参加研究生院和追求专业和学术生涯。少数民族学生也将有机会参加这项研究作为模拟陪审员，让他们深入了解司法程序。为了确保从这项研究中获得的知识能够传播到有关的心理和法律的界，该项目的结果将在国家和国际会议上提出，并将提交期刊发表，同时为法律期刊撰写研究摘要。

PI and Co-PI: Kevin M. O'Neil and Margaret Reardon (co-PI)Title: Doctoral Dissertation Research: Jury decision making and the Story Model - How do evidence order and deliberation style influence the story juries create?0719947Project AbstractThe jury is the cornerstone of our judicial system. Despite its importance, relatively little is known about how juries make decisions. There is research on factors that influence individual jurors, but these studies don't shed much light on how those individual judgments become a unanimous verdict of an entire jury. To begin to understand this process, this study applies a comprehensive model of juror decision making (The Story Model) to the jury decision making process. The Story Model maintains that jurors create a story from the pieces of evidence they hear at trial, and that this story then guides their verdict decision. This study seeks to examine whether juries create a "collective story" through the deliberation process, and if so, whether this collective story is related to verdict and influenced by such factors as the order of evidence presentation and deliberation style. The collective story will be measured by the number of story elements and cause-and-effect links shared by each member of a common jury. Mock jurors will deliberate after viewing a simulated criminal trial on video. Deliberations will be videotaped, transcribed, and coded to allow for qualitative analysis of jury stories, including the types of evidence and cause-and-effect links discussed. Additionally, memory and reaction time tests will provide the quantitative data necessary to examine jury stories. The intellectual merit of the proposal lies in the novel application of an established theoretical model of juror decision making to the analysis of group level processes. This research thus extends work on the Story Model by examining its utility for describing jury decisions. The broader impact of the proposal lies in its ability to provide a greater understanding of a fundamental aspect of our judicial system - the jury. This research will also be conducted at a large research university that serves a predominantly Hispanic student population, giving minority students an opportunity to participate in a large scale research study as research assistants. This experience will contribute greatly to students' knowledge of research and will further their ability to attend graduate school and pursue professional and academic careers. Minority students will also have the opportunity to participate in this research as mock jurors, giving them insight into the judicial process. To ensure that the knowledge gained from this research will reach relevant psychological and legal communities, the results from this project will be presented at national and international conferences and will be submitted for publication in journals, with summaries of the research written for law journals.