NCJ Number
90128
Journal
Journal of Psychiatry and Law Volume: 8 Issue: 4 Dated: (Winter 1980) Pages: 443-455
Date Published
1980
Length
13 pages
Annotation
Subjects who were matched for self-acceptance and assigned to juries by level of moral judgment (MJ) attended a law school reenactment of a breaking and entering trial.
Abstract
After testimony three juries deliberated the case separately. Control juries registered individual verdicts, were retested, and dismissed. All jurors were tested on mood measures at pretrial, posttestimony and at followup. Results indicate that the deliberation process itself is anxiety producing. Only juries at lower levels of MJ experienced longer lasting feelings of hostility and depression. Evidence is suggestive that at high levels of MJ subjects may have responded more cognitively than emotionally. (Publisher abstract)