The Problem With Slow Motion Summary

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“I Victor Leonardo Correa have not given, received, or used any unauthorized assistance on this assignment.” Throughout the article of “The Problem With Slow Motion” by Eugene M. Caruso et al.,2016 the main idea the authors convey to its audience is how watching something in slow motion can lead to believe the person who was doing it had more time to think of what they were doing before actually acting on it (Caruso et al.). They support this claim by sharing a piece of story of a man named John Lewis, according to Caruso et al. (2016), he killed an officer during an armed robbery which was occurring at the time in Dunkin’ Donuts in Philadelphia. Mr. Lewis was later sentenced to the death penalty. He argued his case by stating that slow-motion …show more content…

The article “The Problem With Slow Motion” primary uses two different research methods. The first one being a survey, which is a self-report to show one's’ opinions or behaviors. The way in which you word things in a survey brings a big impact in how the people taking it will respond to it, this simple means whoever is making this survey has to be careful how they word the question. The survey method was used in this murder case because they did a group of people showing them the video of the crime in normal motion and filling out a survey to find out if how much of the percentage thought Mr.Lewis deserved first degree murder, afterwards they did the entire process again but this time showing them them the slow-motion video. After the survey they came to the conclusion that the percentage of those who believed Mr. Lewis deserved the death penalty increased. Also, in this article they also use case study as a research method. This method is used to further understand one individual or to examine in

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