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Jury Selection and the Five Factor/Big 5 Personality Factors

Snoop (here) focuses on the Big 5 personality factors.  Why care?  Because it seems that the Big 5 are correlated with actual juror behavior.  According to one study: Actual venire members ( N = 764) completed the Big Five Inventory before going through the jury selection process for 1 of 11 criminal or 17 civil trials. In the 17 juries that deliberated to a verdict (n = 285), high levels of juror extraversion were associated with not guilty verdicts or verdicts for the defendant, especially in criminal cases. Extraversion was also associated with being selected as a jury foreperson, and foreperson extraversion was associated with longer jury deliberation times and perceived foreperson influence in criminal cases.Clark, J., Boccaccini, M. T...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on June 30, 2009 (boomark / email).