Results

  Of this study, there were 44 participants, 63.7% were female and 36.4% were male.  The age ranged from 18-21 years where the majority ran about 61.4% for the age of 18.  All participants were Caucasian and 84% considered their denomination of religion to be Catholic.  The participants’ GPA scaled from a 2.0 to a 3.5 and most of them stated that they lived in either Massachusetts (65.5%) or New Hampshire (20.5%).
    Out of the 44 participants, 11 were expected to reject the person without eye contact.hirty-four participants actually did reject the person without eye contact and that was 23 more than the predicted.  In addition, of the 44 participants, 33 were expected to not reject the person predicted, but results show that only 10 participants did not.
A one-way chi-square was conducted on the results to show that their was no significance, (df=3 chi-square 3.08 p>. 05), on the order of presentation of race/ethnicity and gender.  Table 1.1 shows that there is no significant difference in the order of the presentation of non-verbal behavior.
    Of the 44 participants, 100% noticed some type of non-verbal behavior.  Seventy-two percent said it was in the juror’s voice, 81.8% said it was his/her posture, 84.1% facial gestures, 72.7% body gestures and 95.5% said they saw non-verbal behavior in the potential juror’s eye contact while 4.5% (2 participants) said that they did not see any type of non-verbal behavior in the eye contact of the juror.
    The results of the chi-square on no eye contact and eye contact show that there was a high significance based on this variable and who was to be rejected and who was to be kept, (df=1 chi-square 11.5 p<. 05, showing high support of the main hypothesis.