“I Did It, But Not Like That”: Effects of Factually Incorrect Confessions on Juror Judgments

I like it because I said that I like it: evaluative conditioning effects can be based on stimulus-response learning.

Evaluative conditioning (EC) effects are often assumed to be based on a learned mental link between the CS (conditioned stimulus) and the US (unconditioned stimulus). We demonstrate that this link is not the only one that can underlie EC effects, but that if evaluative responses are actually given during the learning phase also a direct link between the CS and an evaluative response-a CS-ER lin...

Finishing Strong: Recency Effects in Juror Judgments RECENCY EFFECTS IN JUROR DECISION MAKING COSTABIL AND KLEIN

We investigated the effects of evidence order on juror verdicts. Results from 4 mock juror studies suggest that incriminating evidence is more likely to lead to a guilty verdict when it is presented late in the trial than when it is presented early. This recency effect was found both with admissible and inadmissible evidence. Further analyses suggested that recency effects may have been mediate...

It shouldn't have happened, but it did.

Did I say that word or did you? Executive dysfunctions in schizophrenic patients affect memory efficiency, but not source attributions.

INTRODUCTION Schizophrenic patients have difficulties in recognising previously presented verbal information and identifying its sources. The antecedents of these recognition and source misattributions are, however, largely unknown. The current study examined to what extent schizophrenic patients' lack of memory efficiency, their memory errors, and their source misattributions are related to ne...

Juror Beliefs About Police Interrogations, False Confessions, and Expert Testimony

Although there has been a rapid expansion in research on police interrogations and false confessions, little is known about the beliefs of potential jurors as to these issues. In collaboration with a trial research firm, we recruited 461 jury-eligible men and women who matched the demographic characteristics of jury pools in several states. Surrogate jurors responded to questions and statements...