Overview: What We Did and What We Found
Overview: What We Did and What We Found
This book presents experiments that are simulations of the jury decision task. The simulation research strategy—which is used routinely in engineering, medical, and behavioral research—involves creating a situation that is analogous to a real situation, and then studying the phenomena of interest in the controlled situation. In the present experiments, every effort is made to ensure that the simulation was as realistic as possible. Most of the experimental cases are based on real, decided cases; jury instructions are taken directly from actual trials; and only citizens eligible to serve on real juries are sampled as research participants. The studies reported here use this method to examine the punitive damages decision in products liability and environmental damages torts.
Keywords: jury decision, simulation strategy, punitive damages, controlled situation, research participants, product liability
Chicago Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs, and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us.
