 |
| SunWolf, J.D., Ph.D. |
|
| Regular Price: |
$149.00
|
| Quantity discount: |
 Buy 50 or more copies and save 20%
|
| Publisher: |
LexisNexis Publishing Solutions Attorney |
| Format: |
Hardbound; 824 pages |
| ISBN: |
9781422433430 |
| |
©2007 |
|
 |
|
|
Practical Jury Dynamics2 combines Practical Jury Dynamics with the 2005 and 2006 supplements (Jury Thinking and Juror Competency, Juror Compassion)and also includes new, valuable material.
The organization of Practical Jury Dynamics2 is designed to encourage more attention to three neglected parts of a Juror’s Trial World, in a three-part sequence:
* The Bio-physiology of a Juror’s Brain (What are a juror’s mental tools and limits?)
* The Social Physchology of a Juror’s Perceptions
(How does a juror make sense of and evaluate the behaviors of other people?)
* The Effects of Group Dynamics on a Juror’s Vote
(What happens when a juror becomes part of a group?)
Whether you are a trial practitioner or someone simply interested in the mysteries of juries, Practical Jury Dynamics2 will cause you to rethink your assumptions.
Topics Include:
* What Really Matters to Deliberating Juries
* A Juror’s TiVo ® Mind
* The Electronic-Mediated Juror
* Juror Flipping and Regret
* Thinking Unaware
* Social Memory Contamination
* Mars and Venus Deliberate
* Deadlock Phobia
* Toxic Forepersons, Bailiffs, Jurors
* Uncovering a Juror’s Prosocial Helping
* The Velcro® Effect
* Faulty Norms of Deciding and Deliberating
* Social Loafing in the Juryroom
* Why Good Jurors Protect Bad Jurors
For more information on this title, visit the Practical Jury Dynamics landing page. |
|
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword
10 Practical Features of this Book
Prologue
Forethoughts to the Second Edition
PART I: STUDYING JURORS
Chapter 1. KNOWING JURORS
§ 1-1. Three Jury Epiphanies
§ 1-2. The Mystery of Jury Deliberations
§ 1-3. The Problems of Jury Research
§ 1-3(a). The Effects of Deliberating
§ 1-3(b). Criticism of Jury Research Designs
PART II: THE BIO-PHYSIOLOGY OF A JUROR’S BRAIN
Chapter 2. THE MIND IS A CRAZY QUILT
§ 2-1. The Crowd Living in a Juror’s Mind
§ 2-2. How a Juror Becomes Aware of a “Fact.”
§ 2-2(a). Brain Facts/Mind Facts
§ 2-2(b). Mind Spinning
§ 2-3. Juror Listening and Attention Errors
§ 2-3(a). Cognitive Busyness
§ 2-3(b). Juror Listening Errors
§ 2-3(c). Divided Attention
§ 2-4. Biological Basis for Attention
Chapter 3. “TRIALS” ARE IN THE BRAINS OF THE BEHOLDERS
§ 3-1. The Influence of Color Perception
§ 3-2. Remembering and Forgetting
§ 3-2(a). Raw Sensory Memory
§ 3-2(b). Short-term Memory
§ 3-2(c). Long-term Retrievable Memory
§ 3-2(d). Homo narrans
§ 3-2(e). Person Memory
§ 3-2(f). The Generation Effect
§ 3-2(g). The Self-Reference Effect
§ 3-2(h). Memory Stress
§ 3-2(i). Flashbulb Memory
§ 3-2(j). Never-Happened Memory
§ 3-2(k). Memory After Forty
§ 3-2(l). Memory Talk
Chapter 4. RIGHT MIND/LEFT MIND? HOW OUR BRAIN’S HEMISPHERES REALLY FUNCTION
§ 4-1. Right Mind/Left Mind
§ 4-2. Regions of the Brain That Process Language
Chapter 5. FROM JUROR-COGNITION TO JUROR-EMOTION
§ 5-1. The Purpose of Emotions in Human Survival
§ 5-2. Physiology of Jurors’ Emotions When They Judge Other
People’s Behaviors
§ 5-3. How Emotional Arousal Impacts Juror Thinking about Other
People
§ 5-4. The Vividness Effect: Sensual Persuasion
§ 5-4(a). Picture Superiority
§ 5-4(b). Word Vividness
§ 5-4(c). Persuade the Juror’s Body
§ 5-4(d). The Vividness of Toys
§ 5-5. The Velcro® Effect
§ 5-6. The Effects of Juror Mood on Juror Reasoning
§ 5-6(a). Mood and Memory
§ 5-6(b). Mood and Decision Making Style
§ 5-7. Deliberating Under the Influence of Stress
§ 5-8. The Effect of Stress on Citizens Selected for Jury Duty
§ 5-9. Anxiety: A Traveling Companion of Juror Stress
§ 5-10. The Effect of Sleep Debt on Juror Competency
Chapter 6. BELIEFS AND THINKING
§ 6-1. Biology of Beliefs
§ 6-2. A Juror’s TiVo® Mind
§ 6-2(a). Automatic Search, Record, and Fast-forward Come Standard
§ 6-2(b). Teaching Jurors How to Use their TiVo® Brains
§ 6-3. Religious Beliefs
§ 6-4. The God Factor
§ 6-4(a). Religion: Spiritual Lens for Judging Other People
§ 6-4(b). National Groups with Activist Spiritual Missions
§ 6-5. Differences that Make a Difference in Juror Thinking
§ 6-6. Juror Thinking about God and Science
Chapter 7. THINKING UNAWARE
§ 7-1. Blink
§ 7-1(a). The Ick Factor
§ 7-1(b). Juror Blink
§ 7-1(c). Blink and Nonjurors
§ 7-1(d). Issue-Specific Blink
§ 7-1(e). Blink and Voir Dire
§ 7-2. Mental Leaps
§ 7-2(a). Expanding a Juror’s Internal Thinking Criteria
§ 7-2(b). Creating Successful Mental Leaps
PART III: THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF A JUROR’S PERCEPTIONS
Chapter 8. FROM A FOCUS ON SELLING TOWARDS A FOCUS ON
BUYING
§ 8-1. Information Anxiety
§ 8-1(a). The Trial Practitioner’s Anxiety Checklist
§ 8-1(b). The Unavoidable Selectivity of Perception
§ 8-1(c). Ten Sources of Evidence-Anxiety for Jurors
§ 8-1(d). Information Hat Racks
§ 8-2. Creating Empty Spaces as Evidence
§ 8-3. Toxic Language
§ 8-3(a). Sentence Structures Affect Juror Comprehension
§ 8-3(b). Negative Words
§ 8-3(c). The Framing Effect
§ 8-3(d). Toxic Court Words
Chapter 9. HOW THE JUROR’S BRAIN TALKS TO ITSELF DURING
TRIAL
§ 9-1. Mental Filters and Misperceptions
§ 9-2. Social Perception: What a Juror Sees Is What You Get
§ 9-3. Mental Short-Cuts a Juror Uses in Perception
§ 9-4. The Influence of Juror Categories and Schemas
Chapter 10. A JUROR’S SOCIAL THINKING: How a Juror Makes Sense
of the Behaviors of Other People
§ 10-1. Social Thinking and Juror Decision Making
§ 10-2. Juror Attributions
§ 10-3. The Effect of Novel Events
§ 10-4. Fundamental Attribution Error
§ 10-5. False Consensus Error
§ 10-6. False Uniqueness Error
§ 10-7. Attributions of Blame
§ 10-8. Locus of Control
§ 10-9. Cracked Perceptual Lenses
§ 10-10. A Practical Approach to Gaining Access to Juror Attitudes
§ 10-10(a). Model for Measuring Strength and Extremity of Juror Attitude on Specific Trial Issues
§ 10-10(b). Voir Dire Question Formats that Elicit Juror Attitude
Chapter 11. THE DILEMMA OF A JUROR’S UN-THINKING TASK
§ 11-1. Intrusive Thoughts
§ 11-2. Controlled Un-Believing
§ 11-3. A Juror’s Cognitive Load
§ 11-4. The Bad Experience Closet
§ 11-4(a). “Set that Experience Aside!” Where Do Jurors Put It?
§ 11-4(b). Prejudice
§ 11-4(b)(1). Activating Prejudice
§ 11-4(b)(2). The Impossibility of Setting Prejudice Aside
§ 11-5. The Set-it-Aside Agenda
Chapter 12. IMPERFECT THINKING
§ 12-1. Machine-Thinking
§ 12-2. Wabi-Sabi Minds
§ 12-3. Thinking in Paradox
§ 12-3(a). Unavoidable Paradox
§ 12-3(b). Paradox of Choice
Chapter 13. SYMBOLIC THINKING
§ 13-1. God Words and Devil Words
§ 13-2. Metaphor and Thought
§ 13-2(a). Metaphoric Thinking
§ 13-2(b). Speaking in Metaphor
§ 13-2(c). Types of Metaphoric Talk
§ 13-2(d). Complex Metaphoric Phrases
PART IV: THE EFFECTS OF GROUP DYNAMICS ON A JUROR’S VOTE
Chapter 14. THE WORK OF JURY WORK: WHEN INDIVIDUAL JURORS
BECOME A GROUP
§ 14-1. The Faulty Norms of Jury Deliberations
§ 14-2. Changing the Way Jurors Deliberate
§ 14-2(a). Strange Rules Jurors Create During Deliberations
§ 14-2(b). The Geography of Seating Positions
§ 14-2(c). Why Some Jurors End Up More Equal than Others
§ 14-2(d). Deadlock Phobia
§ 14-2(d)(1). Dynamite!
§ 14-2(e). Five O’ Clock Verdicts
§ 14-2(f). The Voting-Structure Effect
§ 14-2(g). What Counts as Evidence?
§ 14-2(h). The Toxic Agenda Effect
§ 14-2(i). From List-Makers to Dialogue-Lovers
§ 14-2(j)(1). Jointly Reconstructing the Past
§ 14-2(j)(2). Social Memory Contamination
Chapter 15. SOCIAL VERDICTS (THE RELATIONAL SIDE OF JURY DECISION-MAKING)
§ 15-1. Symbolic Convergence Theory: Groups and Fantasies
§ 15-2. Social Opinions
§ 15-3. Social Cliques
§ 15-4. Primary Tension and Secondary Tension: What Blocks the Jury’s
Task?
§ 15-5. Mars and Venus Deliberate—Gender in the Jury Room
§ 15-6. Salads, Stews, and Surprising Effects of Juror Diversity
Chapter 16. EMOTIONAL DELIBERATIONS
§ 16-1. Emotional Persuasion
§ 16-2. Laughing on the Road to a Verdict
§ 16-3. Effects of Emotion on Juror Mood
§ 16-4. Emotional Argument
§ 16-5. Angry Argument: All People Are Afraid of the Anger of Others
§ 16-6. Emotional Pollution
§ 16-7. Groupmood
Chapter 17. JUROR COMPETENCY
§ 17-1. A Juror’s Trial Task (Competent to do what, exactly?)
§ 17-1(a). Every Juror’s Job: Witnessing
§ 17-1(b). Juror Job Strain
§ 17-2. Juiced Jurors
§ 17-2(a). Challenging Medicated Jurors
§ 17-2(b). Guide to Side Effects of Commonly-Prescribed Medications
§ 17-3. Multitasking Jurors
§ 17-4. Fluctuating Competency
§ 17-5. Juror Accommodation
§ 17-6(a). Managing Disability in the Courtroom
§ 17-6(b). The Disability Accommodation Guide for State Courts
Chapter 18. JUROR COMPASSION
§ 18-1. Compassion in the Courtroom
§ 18-1(a). In Search of Samaritans
§ 18-1(b). What Do We Know About Prosocial Helping Behavior?
§ 18-1(c). The Juror-Bystander Effect
§ 18-2. Measuring Compassion
§ 18-2(a). Questionnaires
§ 18-2(b). Dialogues (Voir Dire)
Chapter 19. THE SHADOW SIDE OF JURY DECISION MAKING
§ 19-1. Grouphate
§ 19-2. Social Loafing
§ 19-3. Missing in Action! Jurors Who Disappear in the Jury Room
§ 19-4. Toxic Jurors
§ 19-5. Seizing Speaking Turns
§ 19-6. What Really Happens When One Juror Leaves the Room
§ 19-7. Improperly Speculating
§ 19-8. Ignoring Misconduct of Fellow Jurors
§ 19-9. The Shadow Side of Jury Leadership
§ 19-9(a). The First Act of Inequality
§ 19-9(b). Mutiny! Functional Leadership for All
§ 19-10. The Consensus Disease
Chapter 20. DECISIONAL REGRET IN THE JURY ROOM
§ 20-1. Juror Overconfidence
§ 20-1(a). Natural Bases of Juror Decision Biases
§ 20-2. Counterfactual Thinking: Changing the Facts
§ 20-3. Woulda/Coulda/Shoulda Minefields
§ 20-4. Why Deliberations Are a Set-Up for Woulda/Coulda/Shoulda
Thinking
§ 20-5. A Storied Theory of Jury Deliberations
§ 20-6. Regret Contagion, GroupRegret, and Decisional Avoidance
§ 20-7. Story Plugs
§ 20-8. Coherence-Based Reasoning Theory
Chapter 21. RE-THINKING
§ 21-1. Juror Flipping
§ 21-2. Ignoring Regret
§ 21-3. If-Only Thinking
§ 21-4. Binge-Think
§ 21-4(a). Juror Thinking Binges
§ 21-4(b). The Binge-Think Hangover
§ 21-4(c). The Binge-Think Intervention
Chapter 22. STORY-THINKING AND FANTASIES DURING
DELIBERATIONS
§ 22-1. The Storymaking-Mind of a Juror
§ 22-2. Story Battles in Deliberation
§ 22-3. Opening the Jury Room’s Door: Making Sense of the
Story Battles
§ 22-4. Storytelling Functions in Deliberations
§ 22-5. When Fantasies Collide: Symbolic Convergence Theory and Jury
Decision Making
§ 22-6. Story Strategies for Attorneys
§ 22-6(a). Storying Opening Statements
§ 22-6(b). Storying Closing Arguments
§ 22-6(c). Story Prompting
Chapter 23. JURY-JOINING
§ 23-1. Collaborative Dialogues: How to Discuss What Matters Most
§ 23-2. Non-Question Voir Dire
§ 23-3. Collaborating on Solutions
§ 23-4. Collaborative Challenges for Cause
§ 23-4(a). General Legal Principals
§ 23-4(b). Juror Signals of Challengability
§ 23-4(c). Template for Walking with a Juror on the
Challenge-for-Cause Trail
§ 23-5. Collaborative Closing Arguments
Chapter 24. OPENING WINDOWS TO THE BLACK BOX OF JURY
DELIBERATIONS
§ 24-1. Curing Ignorance about Jurors’ Rights
§ 24-2. Reasons Jurors Think They Shouldn’tCommunicate with the
Judge
§ 24-3. Gaining An Ear to the Jury Wall
§ 24-4. Why Jurors Protect Bad Jurors
§ 24-5. Toxic Bailiffs: The Virus Every Jury Is Exposed To
§ 24-6. Exposing the Myths of Juries and Jurors
PART V: TRIAL CULTURE
Chapter 25 NEW TOOLS FOR EVERY TRIAL
§ 25-1. How a Juror Listens to an Expert’s Opinion
§ 25-1(a). Understanding the Expert Mind and Adapting the Attack
§ 25-1(b). Expert Voir Dire: The Template
§ 25-1(c). Expert Voir Dire: Valid Attacks
§ 25-1(d). Expert Voir Dire: Framing the Attack for a Juror
§ 25-2. Organizing Juror Information
§ 25-2(a). The Key Case Question
§ 25-2(b). Four Juror Answers That Always Matter
§ 25-2(c). The Juror Information Sheet [Templates]
§ 25-3. Jury Markers
§ 25-4. Practical Juror Motions
§ 25-4(a). What Kind of Motion Can Be Made?
§ 25-4(b). Sample Jury Motions
§ 25-5. Tools for Learning About Jury Pools
Chapter 26. STRUCTURES THAT INFLUENCE THINKING
§ 26-1. Jury Studies: Updates
§ 26-1(a). Jury Instructions
§ 26-1(b). Own Race Bias
§ 26-1(c). Personal Injury Damage Awards
§ 26-1(d). Expectation Effects
§ 26-1(e). Lay Representations of Legal Concepts
§ 26-1(f). Effect of Judicial Warnings During Trial
§ 26-1(g). Reading Minds of Others (Mental States)
§ 26-1(h). How Jurors Use/Misuse Character Evidence
§ 26-1(i). Notetaking
§ 26-1(j). Hearing and Believing Hearsay Evidence
§ 26-1(k). Juror Thinking About Witness Memory
§ 26-1(l). Effects of Defendant Conduct on Jury Thinking About Damage
Awards
§ 26-2. Jury Reform
§ 26-2(a). ABA 2005 Principles for Juries and Jury Trial
§ 26-2(b). Reform Structures Missing from the ABA Principles
Chapter 27. THINKING UPSIDE DOWN
§ 27-1. When Jurors Rebut Your Closing
§ 27-2. PlayingAttention with the Final Act of Jurying
Chapter 28. PAYING ATTENTION TO THE COMPLEX CULTURE
OF TRIALS
§ 28-1. Enculturation: How Jurors Get Sucked Into a Strange System
§ 28-2. Twenty Stressful Realities of a Juror’s Experience
Chapter 29. THE ELECTRONIC-MEDIATED JUROR
§ 29-1. The Google™ Effect
§ 29-2. Cell Phones
§ 29-3. Social Network Sites as Unconfronted Trial Evidence
§ 29-4. The Blog Effect
Chapter 30. REDUCING TOXIC TRIAL STRESS
§ 30-1. Avoiding The Helper’s Pit
§ 30-2. Empathy-Driven versusDistress-Driven Advocacy
§ 30-3. Ever Aftering, in Practical Ways
§ 30-3(a). The Janus Effect
APPENDICES: RESOURCES, BOOKS, MATERIALS, TOOLS
Principles For Juries And Jury Trials, American Jury Project
Principle 1 – The Right To Jury Trial Shall Be Preserved
Principle 2 – Citizens Have The Right To Participate In Jury Service And Their Service Should Be Facilitated
Principle 3 – Juries Should Have 12 Members
Principle 4 – Jury Decisions Should Be Unanimous
Principle 5 – It Is The Duty Of The Courts To Enforce And Protect The
Rights To Jury Trial And Jury Service
Principle 6 – Courts Should Educate Jurors Regarding The Essential
Aspects Of A Jury Trial
Principle 7 – Courts Should Protect Juror Privacy Insofar As Consistent
With The Requirements Of Justice And The
Public Interest
Principle 8 – Individuals Selected To Serve On A Jury Have An Ongoing
Interest In Completing Their Service
Principle 9 – Courts Should Conduct Jury Trials In The Venue Required
By Applicable Law Or The Interests Of
Justice
Principle 10 – Courts Should Use Open, Fair And Flexible Procedures
To Select A Representative Pool Of
Prospective Jurors
Principle 11 – Courts Should Ensure That The Process Used To Empanel
Jurors Effectively Serves The Goal Of
Assembling A Fair And Impartial Jury
Principle 12 – Courts Should Limit The Length Of Jury Trials Insofar
As Justice Allows And Jurors Should Be Fully
Informed Of The Trial Schedule Established
Principle 13 – The Court And Parties Should Vigorously Promote Juror
Understanding Of The Facts And The Law
Principle 14 –The Court Should Instruct The Jury In Plain And
Understandable Language Regarding The
Applicable Law And The Conduct Of
Deliberations
Principle 15 – Courts And Parties Have A Duty To Facilitate Effective
And Impartial Deliberations
Principle 16 – Deliberating Jurors Should Be Offered Assistance When
An Apparent Impasse Is Reported
Principle 17 – Trial And Appellate Courts Should Afford Jury
Decisions The Greatest Deference Consistent
With Law
Principle 18 – Courts Should Give Jurors Legally Permissible Post-Verdict
Advice And Information
Principle 19 – Appropriate Inquiries Into Allegations Of Juror Misconduct
Should Be Promptly Undertaken By The Trial
Court
Resources and Tools
Browse the Stacks
Gratitudes
Who Is the Author?
Endnotes
Index |
|
