期刊名称：Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture
电子版ISSN：1070-8286
出版年度：2010
卷号：17
期号：1
出版社：State University of New York at Albany
摘要：This study examined whether a celebrity juror would persuade participants to support his/her verdict more than a non-celebrity and whether celebrity jurors interfere with participants' abilities to consider case facts appropriately. Two mock-juror experiments used a 3 (juror type: celebrityvotes for death penalty/life sentence/control no celebrity) X 2 (case type: high aggravators/high mitigators) factorial design. Both studies found a significant main effect for case type but not juror type, and a significant interaction. Overall, participants weighed case facts correctly, however in certain conditions;jurors were unable to properly consider case facts. This may be because of violated schemas of these celebrities. Results also indicate that jurors believed that celebrities would be more likely to be voted foreperson as compared to non-celebrity jurors
