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Sexual harassment stories: testing a story-mediated model of juror decision-making in civil litigation.
Full Abstract
The story model of juror decision-making proposes that jurors use personal experience and information presented at trial to create stories that guide their verdicts. This model has received strong empirical support in studies using criminal cases. The research presented here extends the story model to civil litigation and tests a story-mediated model against an unmediated model of jury decision-making. In Phase 1, content analysis of mock juror responses to 4 realistic sexual harassment cases revealed prototypic plaintiff and defense stories. In Phase 2, these prototypic stories were included as mediators in a model predicting verdicts in 4 additional sexual harassment cases. Mock juror attitudes, experiences, and demographics were assessed, then attorneys presented abbreviated versions of 4 actual sexual harassment cases. Path analyses provided support for the story-mediated model, which added significantly to the amount of variance accounted for in the outcome measures of verdict, commitment to verdict, and confidence times verdict. Implications for sexual harassment and other types of civil cases are discussed.
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Author information
Author/s: Huntley, Jill E (JE); Costanzo, Mark (M);
Affiliation: Department of Psychology, Claremont McKenna College, 850 Columbia Avenue, Claremont, California 91711, USA.
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article
Journal: Law and human behavior (Law Hum Behav), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2003-Feb; vol 27 (issue 1) : pp 29-51
Dates: Created 2003/03/21; Completed 2003/04/16; Revised 2007/11/15;
PMID: 12647466, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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