Five characteristic ways people approach facts and information (from the ‘eager and willing’ to ‘the wary’)
The Pew Research Center published an article on their new typology of how people approach facts and information in late 2017 (information on their methodology here). It’s an interesting typology (one of those—“there are 5 kinds of people” theories) and may be useful in assessing how open your jurors will be to new information relevant to your case facts. Or, it might give you ideas about how to frame a narrative so that more people embrace it. As you might expect, people approach new information differently. We’ve all seen this and some of us approach new information in different ways