How Does Courtroom Broadcasting Influence Public Confidence in Justice? The Mediation Effect of Vicarious Interpersonal Treatment
The present study aimed to examine whether the applied practice of cameras in courtrooms plays a positive role in public confidence in legal authorities and how such impact may occur from the perspectives of the Group Value Model and the surrogacy effect. A convenience sample of 170 college students...
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| description | The present study aimed to examine whether the applied practice of cameras in courtrooms plays a positive role in public confidence in legal authorities and how such impact may occur from the perspectives of the Group Value Model and the surrogacy effect. A convenience sample of 170 college students participated in this experiment. The control group read the written judgment of a civil case published online while the experimental group read the same judgment and watched the court trial video of that case. The overarching mediation model confirmed that there was a significant and indirect influence of video watching on confidence in justice in general. The key underlying mechanisms of this impact were the positive perception of the interpersonal treatment by the judge as well as the perceived fairness of the procedure. This study contributes to the currently limited research examining whether and, if so, how courtroom broadcasting promotes public trust through obtaining empirical evidence. It also expands the application of the Group Value Model to a vicarious interaction setting and provides evidence of the surrogacy effect in a civil legal context. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-73800a05ea2a46778dae532c221621de2022-12-22T00:26:31ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782020-07-011110.3389/fpsyg.2020.01766525787How Does Courtroom Broadcasting Influence Public Confidence in Justice? The Mediation Effect of Vicarious Interpersonal TreatmentJian Xu0Jian Xu1Jian Xu2Cong Liu3Cong Liu4School of Media and Communication, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, ChinaChina Institute for Urban Governance, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, ChinaInstitute of Cultural Innovation and Youth Development, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, ChinaSchool of Media and Communication, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, ChinaInstitute of Cultural Innovation and Youth Development, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, ChinaThe present study aimed to examine whether the applied practice of cameras in courtrooms plays a positive role in public confidence in legal authorities and how such impact may occur from the perspectives of the Group Value Model and the surrogacy effect. A convenience sample of 170 college students participated in this experiment. The control group read the written judgment of a civil case published online while the experimental group read the same judgment and watched the court trial video of that case. The overarching mediation model confirmed that there was a significant and indirect influence of video watching on confidence in justice in general. The key underlying mechanisms of this impact were the positive perception of the interpersonal treatment by the judge as well as the perceived fairness of the procedure. This study contributes to the currently limited research examining whether and, if so, how courtroom broadcasting promotes public trust through obtaining empirical evidence. It also expands the application of the Group Value Model to a vicarious interaction setting and provides evidence of the surrogacy effect in a civil legal context.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01766/fullcourtroom broadcastinginterpersonal treatmentprocedural justicepublic confidencegovernance |
| spellingShingle | Jian Xu Jian Xu Jian Xu Cong Liu Cong Liu How Does Courtroom Broadcasting Influence Public Confidence in Justice? The Mediation Effect of Vicarious Interpersonal Treatment Frontiers in Psychology courtroom broadcasting interpersonal treatment procedural justice public confidence governance |
| title | How Does Courtroom Broadcasting Influence Public Confidence in Justice? The Mediation Effect of Vicarious Interpersonal Treatment |
| title_full | How Does Courtroom Broadcasting Influence Public Confidence in Justice? The Mediation Effect of Vicarious Interpersonal Treatment |
| title_fullStr | How Does Courtroom Broadcasting Influence Public Confidence in Justice? The Mediation Effect of Vicarious Interpersonal Treatment |
| title_full_unstemmed | How Does Courtroom Broadcasting Influence Public Confidence in Justice? The Mediation Effect of Vicarious Interpersonal Treatment |
| title_short | How Does Courtroom Broadcasting Influence Public Confidence in Justice? The Mediation Effect of Vicarious Interpersonal Treatment |
| title_sort | how does courtroom broadcasting influence public confidence in justice the mediation effect of vicarious interpersonal treatment |
| topic | courtroom broadcasting interpersonal treatment procedural justice public confidence governance |
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