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Nonadversarial Methods for Sensitizing Jurors to Eyewitness Evidence
Author(s) -
Cutler Brian L.,
Dexter Hedy R.,
Penrod Steven D.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1990.tb00400.x
Subject(s) - psychology , eyewitness identification , skepticism , expert witness , eyewitness testimony , witness , identification (biology) , eyewitness memory , social psychology , law , cognitive psychology , political science , relation (database) , epistemology , recall , botany , database , computer science , biology , philosophy
Tested the effects, on juror decision making, of court‐appointed expert testimony and judge's instructions designed to sensitize jurors to eyewitness evidence. Subjects ( N = 144) viewed a videotaped trial in which the primary evidence was the testimony of and identification by an eyewitness. Three levels of expert advice (court‐appointed expert, judge's instructions, no expert advice) were crossed with two levels of witnessing and identification conditions and two levels of witness confidence The court‐appointed expert produced skepticism toward the identification but did not improve juror sensitivity to the eyewitness evidence. The judge's instructions produced neither skepticism or sensitization effects.