Citation

Martin ME, de la Fuente EI, Garcia J, de La Fuente L. Psicothema 2006; 18(4): 772-777.

Vernacular Title

Influencia de la tarea de decision y del estilo de deliberacion en el veredicto

Affiliation

Faculty of Psychology, Universidad de Jaén, 23071 Jaén, Spain. emartin@ujaen.es

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, Departamento de Psicología de la Universidad de Oviedo, Publisher Colegio Oficial de Psicológicas de Asturias)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

17296116

Abstract

The influence of decision task and deliberation style on the verdict of the juries. In the Kameda's Deliberation Style Model the emission of verdicts of responsibility when the deliberation style of the juries (elemental/compound) and the type of decision task (disjunctive/conjunctive) are jointly manipulated, is favoured in certain conditions. Given the consequences that these approaches could have in real judicial processes, this model is analyzed using a manslaughter crime under the Spanish judicial context conditions (nine members juries and seven or five members majorities emitting a verdict of guilty or not guilty, respectively). The obtained results indicated a better operation of the model when a conjunctive decision task was demanded.

Language: es