Storytelling Rituals in Jury Deliberations

Gender and Jury Deliberations: The Contributions of Social Science

GSS for Jury Deliberations: Applying Technology in the High School Courtroom

Today's educators are using mock trials and jury deliberations as a way to promote critical thinking and enhance communication skills. An English teacher at Tucson, Arizona's Cholla Magnet High School, incorporates mock trials and jury deliberations as a part of his class. The Center for the Management of Information, at the University of Arizona, developed a collaborative environment with faci...

Belief Revision as Applied Within a Descriptive Model of Jury Deliberations

Belief revision is a well-research topic within AI. We argue that the new model of belief revision as discussed here is suitable for general modelling of judicial decision making, along with extant approach as known from jury research. The new approach to belief revision is of general interest, whenever attitudes to information are to be simulated within a multi-agent environment with agents ho...

Distributed Belief Revision as Applied Within a Descriptive Model of Jury Deliberations

Belief revision is a well-research topic within AI. We argue that the new model of distributed belief revision as discussed here is suitable for general modelling of judicial decision making, along with extant approach as known from jury research. The new approach to belief revision is of general interest, whenever attitudes to information are to be simulated within a multi-agent environment wi...

On racial diversity and group decision making: identifying multiple effects of racial composition on jury deliberations.

This research examines the multiple effects of racial diversity on group decision making. Participants deliberated on the trial of a Black defendant as members of racially homogeneous or heterogeneous mock juries. Half of the groups were exposed to pretrial jury selection questions about racism and half were not. Deliberation analyses supported the prediction that diverse groups would exchange ...