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Explaining the evidence: Tests of the Story Model for juror decision making.
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This research investigates the Story Model, Pennington and Hastie's (1986, 1988) explanationbased theory of decision making for juror decisions. In Experiment 1, varying the ease with which stories could be constructed affected verdict judgments and the impact of credibility evidence. Memory for evidence in all conditions was equivalent, implying that the story structure was a mediator of decisions and of the impact of credibility evidence. In Experiments 2 and 3, Ss evaluated the evidence in 3 ways. When Ss made a global judgment at the end of the case, their judgment processes followed the prescriptions of the Story Model, not of Bayesian or linear updating models. When Ss made item-by-item judgments after each evidence block, linear anchor and adjust models described their judgments. In conditions in which story construction strategies were more likely to be used, story completeness had greater effects on decisions.
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“The story model of jury decision-making (Pennington and Hastie 1992), underpinned by a wealth of empirical support (Pennington and Hastie 1988;Willmott et al. 2018), suggests that jurors are actively engaged in a narrative construction of information surrounding a case.”
From Do Pre-Trial Juror Attitudes Predict Rape Trial Verdict Decisions? Investigating the Role of Rape Myth Beliefs, Contemporary Sexist Attitudes and Sexual Victimization Experiences on Juror Decision-Making (2025) · cites this paper as Pennington and Hastie 1992
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“Taken together, findings offer theoretical support for Pennington and Hastie's (1992) story model of juror decision-making”
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“For this reason, the policymaking process and the jury-based law system are often characterized not only by debates over facts but also by the narrative interpretations of those facts (Mukand & Rodrik, 2018; Pennington & Hastie, 1992).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Pennington, N., & Hastie, R.
- Affiliations
- University of Colorado Boulder (US)
- Venue
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- Published
- 1992-02
- Volume
- 62
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 189-206
- ISSN
- 0022-3514 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1315
- OpenAlex
- W1984737313
- Cited by
- 761
- References
- 51
- Citations by year
- 2026: 23 · 2025: 24 · 2024: 22 · 2023: 31 · 2022: 20 · 2021: 48 · 2020: 32 · 2019: 46 · 2018: 40 · 2017: 26 · 2016: 37 · 2015: 39 · 2014: 32 · 2013: 36 · 2012: 29
- FWCI
- 103.75
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Law › Jury Decision Making Processes
- Social Sciences › Law › Legal processes and jurisprudence
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › General Decision Sciences › Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Keywords
- story model, jury decision-making, narrative construction
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