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

PI和共同PI：Kevin M.O‘Neil和Margaret Reardon(共同PI)标题：博士论文研究：陪审团决策和故事模式-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们司法系统的基石。尽管它很重要，但人们对陪审团如何做出决定知之甚少。有关于影响个别陪审员的因素的研究，但这些研究并没有太多地揭示这些个别判决如何成为整个陪审团的一致裁决。为了开始理解这一过程，本研究将陪审员决策的一个综合模型(Story模型)应用到陪审团决策过程中。故事模式认为，陪审员根据他们在审判中听到的证据创建一个故事，然后这个故事指导他们的裁决决定。本研究旨在考察陪审团是否通过审议过程创造了一个集体故事，如果是的话，这个集体故事是否与判决有关，是否受到证据呈递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分享的故事元素和因果联系的数量来衡量。模拟陪审员将在观看模拟刑事审判的视频后进行审议。审议过程将被录像、转录和编码，以便对陪审团故事进行定性分析，包括所讨论的证据类型和因果联系。此外，记忆力和反应时间测试将提供检验陪审团故事所需的定量数据。这项提议的学术价值在于，它新颖地将陪审员决策的既定理论模型应用于小组一级的程序分析。因此，这项研究通过检验故事模型在描述陪审团裁决方面的效用，扩展了故事模型的工作。这项建议的更广泛影响，在於它能让我们对司法制度的一个基本方面--陪审团--有更深入的了解。这项研究还将在一所大型研究型大学进行，该大学主要服务于拉美裔学生群体，让少数族裔学生有机会作为研究助理参与大规模的研究性学习。这一经历将极大地有助于学生的研究知识，并将进一步提高他们进入研究生院并追求专业和学术生涯的能力。少数族裔学生也将有机会作为模拟陪审员参与这项研究，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将到达相关的心理学和法律界，这一项目的结果将在国内和国际会议上公布，并将提交期刊发表，并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.