Memory monitoring in mock jurors

The review of evidence in jury deliberation is predicated on the notion that jurors can accurately assess what they can and cannot remember and that this knowledge guides their review of evidence. Two experiments evaluating the accuracy of these memory monitoring skills in mock jurors showed that jurors' predictions of their memory for trial information correlates poorly with actual memory test performance; postdictions, however, were significantly related to accuracy. This suggests that jurors should be encouraged to review evidence rather than assume that they remember it. In addition, jurors with the most confidence in their memory predictions were not the ones that remembered the most, suggesting that jurors may need warnings not to interpret differences in confidence as differences in accuracy.