The Situation of the Jury

In Fritz Allhoff & S. Waller (eds.), Serial Killers ‐ Philosophy for Everyone. Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 41–50 (2010)
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This chapter contains sections titled: Attribution Bias in the Trials of Accused Serial Killers Introduction The Case of Doug Clark Situationism and Destructive Behavior Attribution Biases Seeing Ghosts “Ewww…Guilty!” “You people are all…” “Aren't you the guy who…?” Doug Clark Again Conclusion.

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situation of the jury ‐ attribution bias in trials of accused serial killers   unconscious situational influences on judgment   situationism and destructive behavior ‐ situational variables on human thought and human behavior   infamous situationist experiment ‐ Phillip Zimbardo's Stanford Prison simulation   situationist tradition, study of attribution biases ‐ distortions of process of event   experimental philosopher, Joshua Knobe ‐ that the good or bad consequences of an action influence our decisions   unconscious biases, influencing decisions ‐ whether an event is an action or a mere event   people in feeling the emotion of disgust ‐ someone's actions as blameworthy or punishable   racial and ethnic minorities ‐ convicted of crimes they did not commit or were not proved to commit   pretrial media coverage ‐ source of bias, influencing jurors' determination of who performed an action

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