TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1997//
TI  - Enhancing Juror Competence in a Complex Trial
JO  - Applied cognitive psychology
A1  - ForsterLee, Lynne
A1  - Horowitz, Irwin A.
SP  - 305
EP  - 319
VL  - 11
IS  - 4
N2  - 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> 
LA  - en
SN  - 0888-4080
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-0720(199708)11:4<305::AID-ACP457>3.0.CO;2-J
ID  - ref1
ER  -