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Test the validity of the Story Model against Bayesian and linear updating models in explaining how jurors synthesize evidence to reach legal verdicts.

February 1, 1992Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Explaining the evidence: Tests of the Story Model for juror decision making.

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NPNancy PenningtonUniversity of Colorado Boulder RHReid HastieUniversity of Colorado System

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Experimental study demonstrates that narrative story construction guides final verdict choices in mock jurors, indicating that story structure mediates legal judgments.

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Test the validity of the Story Model against Bayesian and linear updating models in explaining how jurors synthesize evidence to reach legal verdicts.
Conducted three experimental studies manipulating the ease of story construction, presentation order, and evaluation format of trial evidence.
Assessed decision processes under global post-trial evaluation conditions versus sequential item-by-item assessments following each block of evidence.
Facilitating story construction altered verdict decisions and the perceived impact of witness credibility evidence, despite participants exhibiting equivalent memory for the underlying facts.
Global end-of-case verdict judgments conformed to the predictions of the Story Model rather than Bayesian or linear updating models.
Sequential evaluations prompted linear anchor-and-adjust strategies, while conditions promoting narrative processing showed greater verdict sensitivity to story completeness.

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Pennington et al. (1992) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a11cff535a4eec8fedce486 https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.62.2.189

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Experimental study demonstrates that narrative story construction guides final verdict choices in mock jurors, indicating that story structure mediates legal judgments.

Explaining the evidence: Tests of the Story Model for juror decision making.

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Explaining the evidence: Tests of the Story Model for juror decision making.

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