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The Effects of the Intuitive Prosecutor Mindset on Person Memory

Shakarchi, Richard J.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1040044498

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2002, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Psychology.
The intuitive prosecutor metaphor of human judgment is a recent development within causal attribution research. The history of causal attribution is briefly reviewed, with an emphasis on explanations of attributional biases. The evolution of such explanations is traced through a purely-cognitive phase to the more modern acceptance of motivational explanations for attributional biases. Two examples are offered of how a motivational explanatory framework of attributional biases can account for broad patterns of information processing biases. The intuitive prosecutor metaphor is presented as a parallel explanatory framework for interpreting attributional biases, whose motivation is based on a threat to social order. The potential implications for person memory are discussed, and three hypotheses are developed: That intuitive prosecutors recall norm-violating information more consistently than non-intuitive prosecutors (H1); that this differential recall may be based on differential (biased) encoding of behavioral information (H2); and that this differential recall may also be based on biased retrieval of information from memory rather than the result of a reporting bias (H3). A first experiment is conducted to test the basic recall hypothesis (H1). A second experiment is conducted that employs accountability in order to test the second and third hypotheses.
Marilynn Brewer (Advisor)
137 p.
Intuitive Prosecutor; Person Memory; Accountability; Motivated Cognition; Biased Recall; Recall-Judgment Correlation; Responsibility; Punitive Judgments; Social-Functional Approach; Social Psychology

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  • Shakarchi, R. J. (2002). The Effects of the Intuitive Prosecutor Mindset on Person Memory [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1040044498

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Shakarchi, Richard. The Effects of the Intuitive Prosecutor Mindset on Person Memory. 2002. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1040044498.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Shakarchi, Richard. "The Effects of the Intuitive Prosecutor Mindset on Person Memory." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1040044498

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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