This document discusses the 12 Angry Men film and analyzes the personalities and roles of the 12 jury members. It describes each jury member's traits and how they initially voted and changed their positions during deliberations. It focuses on Jury #8 who was logical, prepared, and able to use critical thinking and leadership to influence others and eventually convince the majority to vote not guilty. The document also addresses how stereotypes and personal prejudices of some jury members affected their initial perceptions and decisions.
3. Question 1
Various Personality traits of Jury members and
Accused. And the Role of Situation That effect the
Perceptual Process.
4. Jury 1
Personality Traits Role:
Organized Initially he is influenced by
Disciplined others.
Methodical When jury No9 highlights the
Composed doubts about the eyesight of the
Lady eye witness. Who is 45
years of age. And has viewed the
accused from a long distance. He
changes his opinion.
5. Jury 2
Personality Traits Role
Lack of Confidence Inexperienced in
Submissive evaluating a case.
Sharp minded Was a first time Jury
Influenced by
Rational Thinker
other but taken
decision when post
situation
demonstrated by
Jury no. 8
6. Jury 3
Personality Traits Role
Aggressive Preconceive on the
Temperamental basis of Personnel
Emotional difference with his son.
Defective decision
Rigid mind set
making without
Partial
analyzed the situation.
No good Team Player Want to mind guards
No soft skills everyone.
Biased Change his decision
Autocratic finally at last everyone
against him and don’t
have enough argue left.
7. Jury 4
Personality Traits Role
He believed the
Stereotype
accused as guilty
Prejudice because he had pre
Driven by facts
conceived notions
about people from
Rigid mind set the slums
Egoistic When he is able to
co-relate, the fact of
his own weak
eyesight & that of
the eyewitness, he
changes his opinion
8. Jury 5
Personality Traits Role
Earlier given vote due to
Good Decision maker
influence of others .
Sympathetic Feeling inferior status
Inferior while going though the
discussion
Introvert After having stereotype
comment by jury 5 and
influence by jury 8 logical
reasoning , he converted his
votes and soon after help jury
8 in the convincing all other
juries.
9. Jury 6
Personality Traits Role
Earlier given vote due to
• Good Decision maker influence of others .
• Sympathetic Main point raised while
discussion was what should
• Aggressive be the motive of the murder.
After convincing through
discussion with jury no 8
and jury 5 convinced for not
guilty.
Try to remove the mind
spreads generated by jury
3,4 ,10 with hot discussion.
10. Jury 7
Irresponsible Person changes his
Insensitive votes according to
Not interested flow going on
majority side.
Unfocused
Not a good thinker
Non reasoning as don’t have any
Undisciplined base for his
decisions.
Not focused at all
through the decision
making.
11. Jury 8
Logical Thinker Based on his preparation,
Critical Evaluator logical thinking ,great
Good Temperament leader ship skill influence
Visionary the rest of jury member
Team player
convert the majority of
opinion in the favor of
Practical accused.
Disciplined His ability through
Convincing perceptual analyzing the
Responsible facts of each situation in
Leader details with logical
Decision maker
answering to each
prosecution’s valid points
Prepared converted votes of jury
Task master members in his side.
Socio Emotional
12. Jury 9
Good Follower After Jury 8 has
Critical Thinker pointed on
Supportive Probabilities of not
Impartial guilty ,and given
the reasons for his
Responsible
judgment. He
Good Soft Skills
supported him to
have fair
discussion.
13. Jury 10
Not proper Thinker For Earlier Discussion
his personality
Abusive reflects stereotype.
Prejudice Changes his mind
when all the others
Arrogant juries are against him
insensitive and specifically when
jury 4 tells him to
keep quite and not to
speak
Which shows that his
arguments are
irrational and biased.
14. Jury 11
Personality Traits Role
Earlier influenced by
Good decision maker others.
Rational thinker Changes his decision
based on the
Supportive arguments put forth
Team player by Jury 8. He gets
convinced that there is
Open minded reasonable doubt in
the evidence. Which
Agreeable makes him change his
Good natured decision to not guilty.
15. Jury 12
Personality Traits Role
Indecisive
He changed his mind
Not interested
based on the decision
Unfocused of others (Herd
Non reasoning Mentality)
In disciplined
16. Accused
Personality Traits Role
High temperamental Stressed with the
Uneducated situation
Immature Not in the age of
Stressed understanding
Legislations.
Pressurized by
Prosecution arguments .
Confused behavior .
17. Question 2
Stereotype - # 4 has assumptions with respect to
kids from the slums.
Personal prejudice - # 3 & 10 had a personnel
prejudice to the accused due to their experience
with their own kids.
18. Question 3
Boy had a fight
He shouts in anger “ I will kill you”
A knife was bought from the nearby stores.
A woman has seen him “someone” committing the crime.
Boy was found near fathers dead body
Yes, we can say that learning knowledge and
experience play a significant role in
developing our perceptual process.
19. Question 4
Pre-prepared : Had already bought a replica knife to prove that murder may have been committed by a
person other than accused.
Based on his professional qualification as an architect he is able to explain the jury about the approximate
time taken by the old man to open the door. “ Which was almost twice than as stated by the eye witness”.
Prob’s jury no. 4 about how much he remembers his personal incidents from the past few days and tried to
prove that the accused may also have forgotten due to stressful conditions, like him and it was not
necessarily accused his lying.
Leadership style :
Good communication
Human value
Convincing skills
Reliable objector
Aggressiveness (Situation based )
Task oriented
Socio – emotional