@article{ref1,
title="Enhancing Juror Competence in a Complex Trial",
journal="Applied cognitive psychology",
year="1997",
author="ForsterLee, Lynne and Horowitz, Irwin A.",
volume="11",
number="4",
pages="305-319",
abstract="This study examined the effects of providing substantive, case-related, judicial instructions before presentation of evidence and permitting jurors to take notes, on verdicts and cognitive performance in a complex civil trial. Jurors made compensatory awards when the evidence either strongly or modestly favored the plaintiffs. One hundred and twenty jury-eligible participants saw a videotape of a cognitively dense trial involving multiple plaintiffs. Notetakers, while showing superior cognitive performance over non-notetakers, were more effective decision makers when pre-instructed and facing less ambiguous evidence. Results indicated that notetaking when jurors are pre-instructed enhanced recall of probative evidence and resulted in fewer non-probabitive intrusions, which facilitated decision making on legally appropriate grounds. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0888-4080",
doi="10.1002/(SICI)1099-0720(199708)11:4<305::AID-ACP457>3.0.CO;2-J",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-0720(199708)11:4<305::AID-ACP457>3.0.CO;2-J"
}