RAINE ET AL 1997

what was the aim of raine et al study

to see if murderers pleading not guilty by reason of insanity and non murderers had different brain activity through the use of PET scanning

what was the sample of raine et al study

41 murderers pleading NGRI (39 m and 2 f) as well as 41 non murderers

what type of sampling did raine et al use

volunteer

what was the procedure of raine et al study

41 murderers and non murderers were studied in the uni of California.

of the NGRI group 6 had schizophrenia, 23 had brain damage accident etc

they were all screened for general health and the vulnerable were removed from the study to ensure there were limited extraneous variables

controls included - each ppt went med free for 2 weeks prior

given a CPT task consisting of learning a sequence of blurred numbers prior to the PET scans.