Topic 4 - Pennington and Hastie - Story Order Flashcards
What is primacy effect?
Remembering the first piece of information
What is recency effect?
Remembering the last piece of information
What was the aim?
To test the hypothesis that jurors are more easily persuaded by ‘story order’ than ‘witness order’
What is story order?
Presenting evidence in the sequence that events occurred
What is witness order?
Presenting witnesses in the order most likely to persuade a jury
What was the method?
Participants were asked to be jurors in a mock murder trial. The lawyers representing both the defence and the prosecution varied the order in which evidence was presented
What was the order with the highest guilty verdicts?
Witness order in defence and story order in prosecution
What was the order with the lowest guilty verdicts?
Story order in defence and witness order in prosecution
What was the conclusion?
Story order is more persuasive that witness order
