Journal of Forensic Psychology

Kevin Omar Rodriguez

Publications

• Research Article
  Analyzing the Effect of Exposure to a First-person Narrative of a Death Row Inmate on the Support of Capital Punishment
  Author(s): Kevin Omar Rodriguez*Kevin Omar Rodriguez*
  
  This experiment tests whether the method of presentation of a story of a death row inmate affects the degree of support toward capital punishment in a sample of undergraduate students and staff. The independent variable was whether participants were presented with the story of a person on death row told from that person's point of view or same story about the inmate presented by his brother. Thus the intervention methods in the study included students introduced to first-person information and third-person information. The dependent variable was the degree of support toward the death penalty, measured both before and after exposure to the story. The sample consisted of 100 undergraduate students and staff from OLLU that were randomly assigned to the point of view of the story. It was hypothesized that the students exposed to first-person information (the inmate's story) would demonstr.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2475-319X.1000123

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