Examining the Role of Individual Differences in Mock Jurors’ Note Taking During Trials and Recall of Trial Evidence

• Main Author: Lorek, Joanna
• Format: Dissertation
• Language: English
• Published: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses 01.01.2019
• Subjects: Accuracy; Cognitive psychology; Collaboration; Court hearings & proceedings; Criminal statistics; Data analysis; Decision making; Design; Evidence; Experiments; Feedback; Information processing; Juries; Laboratories; Law; Legal arguments; Memory; Murders & murder attempts; Perceptions; Recall; Structured notes; Summons; Trials

Although note taking has been consistently shown to improve jurors’ memory of trial evidence, no research has investigated the kind of individual differences that may either hinder or facilitate how much jurors are able to note down and recall. The principal aim of this thesis was to investigate the...