If a juror answers yes to these questions, then the prosecutor will ask follow-up questions to find out if the juror can still be fair given his or her experience.

He will sit on the jury at the trial.

Improved relations with minority groups made people more willing to report crime to the police, provide information as witnesses and, when they sat on a jury, to believe police testimony.

Perhaps the mock jurors refused to give up previous information not out of stubbornness or ignorance but because the experimenters failed to give them sufficient reason to change their minds.

Participating in the study were more than 300 university undergraduates takingan introductory psychology course who played mock jurors.