1. Ch 12: Social Psych & Law
Part 1: Nov. 29, 2010

2. Juries Use of intuition vs. scientific jury selection
Death Qualified Juries
How are these juries used?
Ellsworth’s research on support of the death penalty:

3. Interrogations & Confessions
Impact of social influence
What promotes false confessions?
Compliance
Internalization

4. Eyewitness Memory The case of Jennifer Thompson’s assault
Research on memory: 3 important stages
1) Acquisition
Impact of stress on memory acquisition
Social perception & the unexpected -
Impact of weapons
Impact of race
Own-race bias:

5. 2) Storage: Impact of time
Loaded questions & the misinformation effect:
Loftus’ research:
What is the misinformation effect?
What is ‘source monitoring error’?
Children’s memories & storage -

6. 3) Retrieval – Lineup format: Gary Wells’ research on lineups:
How to best construct lineups?
Similarity of lineup to witness description –
Sequential or simultaneous lineups?
Use of composite face programs to generate sketches -

7. Retrieval (cont.) Impact of instructions are given to the eyewitness:
How does a cognitive interview work?
Would it affect retrieval?