Discuss the roles of conformity, persuasion, group processes (such as group polarization or groupthink), social comparison, stress, leadership, and/or attribution. Which processes would you argue are going to be most significant during jury deliberation?
2. Look at Table 12.6 on page 519 in your textbook. This presents conflicting opinions on the issue of non-unanimous verdicts. Which opinion do you agree with and why? Identify a court case from within the last decade that might have had a different outcome if a non-unanimous jury decision would have been accepted. How might that have impacted jury deliberation?
3. In Chapter 14 of the textbook, the authors describe several models of social support: the number of social contacts model, the intimacy model, and the perceived availability model. These models seem to share the assumption that contact with other people is likely to be beneficial. But we can all probably think of instances in which some of our social contact, or some of our helpers, or even people we are intimate with, end up causing us more stress when they try to help us. How can social support in some instances be a detriment to health? When might social support have this paradoxical effect? What would you do to cope or reduce stress in those instances?