| Budget Amount *help |
¥21,840,000 (Direct Cost: ¥16,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥5,040,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥4,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥930,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥5,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,200,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
We examined the influences of inflammatory information in courts on lay judges' verdict decisions with a series of mock lay judge experiments. Inflammatory information such as victim's family's statements of opinion or photographs of dead bodies made the mock lay judges' negative emotions stronger and increased guilty verdicts. However, for mock lay judges with high need for cognition, inflammatory information did not elicit negative emotions nor increase guilty verdicts. Careful legal instructions, pressure for rational decision, and enough thinking time seemed to remove the influences of inflammatory information in courts. However, our data suggested the possibilities that pressure for rational thinking caused irrational judgments or excessive suppression of negative emotions. More psychological experiments are required for the reexamination on Japanese lay judge system and its proper applications.
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