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International Journal of Social Psychology
Revista de Psicología Social
Volume 13, 1998 - Issue 2
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Regla de decisión y toma de decisiones en el tribunal del jurado

Decision rule and decision making in trial process

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Pages 225-231 | Published online: 23 Jan 2014
 

Resumen

En la presente investigación se aborda la influencia de la regla de decisión (mayoría/consenso) en el grado de satisfacción percibido, el nivel de certeza, la sensación de conflicto, el grado de participación y la calidad de la discusión en el proceso de toma de decisión en el Tribunal del Jurado. Se formaron aleatoriamente 24 jurados simulados de 9 personas cada uno, con estudiantes de Psicología, quienes debían emitir un veredicto acerca de un caso real sentenciado por un juez previamente. La hipótesis propuesta es que los grupos de la condición de consenso, tenderán a una mayor certeza en el veredicto, mayor satisfacción, mayor sensación de conflicto, mayor participación y mayor calidad de la discusión, frente a los grupos de la condición de mayoría. Los resultados confirmaron nuestra hipótesis excepto para la variable calidad, que puntuaron más los grupos de la condición de mayoría y para la variable satisfacción, que no fue significativa.

Abstract

This research outlines the influence of the decision rule (majority/consensus) on the amount of satisfaction perceived, the level of certainty, the sense of conflict, the degree of participation and the quality of the discussion during a decision making process in a legal Court. 24 jurors were selected at random, each of them integrated with 9 students, who had to submit a veredict about a real case previously sentenced by a Legal Court.

Our hypothesis was that the groups forced to reach a consensus would get more certainty in the veredict, more satisfaction and sense of conflict and also more participation and quality of discussion, as compared to other experimental jury groups where consensus was replaced by a majority rule. The results supported our hypothesis, except for the “quality discussion” variable wich was higher in the majority condition groups, and the satisfaction perceived variable, which did not differentiate between the consensus and the majority condition.

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