2. Aims... To investigate whether or not story evidence summaries are true causes of the final verdict decisions and the extent to which story order affects confidence in those decisions.
4. Participants... 130 students from Northwestern University and Chicago University who were paid for participation in an hour long experiment. They were allocated to one of four conditions in roughly equal numbers.
5. Procedure... Participants listened to a tape recorder of the stimulus trial and then responded to written questions. They were told to reach either a guilty or not guilty verdict on a murder charge, and then asked to rate their confidence in their own decision on a 5-point scale. They were separated by partitions and did not interact with each other.
