Psych and Law Exam 3

Jurors, Mass Shootings, and the Death Penalty (Part 2 will be somewhat cumulative)

What is the ‘Cognitive’ portion of Cognitive-Experiential Self Theory?

More analytical and logic based system

conscious & deliberate

requires effort

What is the ‘Experiential’ Portion of the Cognitive-Experiential Self Theory?

default mode of processing

more automatic and without effort

emotion-based

Attractiveness-Leniency Bias

If jurors were motivated to use the cognitve mode, the bias towards using the experiential system did not operate

Liberation Hypothesis

When evidence favors a certain side in a trial, jurors will choose to favor the side with stronger evidence

But, if the evidence is equal, then jurors will decide to use assumptions and biases to determine which side to favor

Extralegal Information

irrelevant information to which jurors are exposed to during a case (propensity evidence, publicity or social media information)

Juror Bias

“a predisposition to interpret and understand information based on past experience”

it is inevitable