Professional Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy, University of Washington (2023)
  • Bachelor of Arts, Claremont McKenna College (2016)
  • Master of Science, University of Washington (2021)
  • PhD, University of Washington, Social Psychology (2023)
  • MS, University of Washington, Social Psychology (2021)
  • BA, Claremont McKenna College, Psychology (2016)

Stanford Advisors

Contact

  • Academic
    bandtlaw@stanford.edu
    University - Scholar Department: Psychology Position: Postdoctoral Scholar

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  • Mail Code: 2130

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Current Research and Scholarly Interests

My research focuses on the dynamic interplay of psychology, law, and social policy and their impact on the workplace, education, and social, heath, and legal services. This research covers several topics, including social perception, law and policymaking and enforcement, and cultural narratives and representations, that are unified around identifying and addressing the factors that advance inequality and limit the promise of civil rights.

Lab Affiliations

All Publications

  • People believe sexual harassment and domestic violence are less harmful for women in poverty JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY Cheek, N. N., Bandt-Law, B., Sinclair, S. 2023; 107

    View details for DOI 10.1016/j.jesp.2023.104472

    View details for Web of Science ID 000990410000001

  • Gender Prototypes Shape Perceptions of and Responses to Sexual Harassment CURRENT DIRECTIONS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE Kaiser, C. R., Bandt-Law, B., Cheek, N. N., Schachtman, R. 2022; 31 (3): 254-261

    View details for DOI 10.1177/09637214221078592

    View details for Web of Science ID 000798682600001

  • Narrow prototypes and neglected victims: Understanding perceptions of sexual harassment. Journal of personality and social psychology Goh, J. X., Bandt-Law, B., Cheek, N. N., Sinclair, S., Kaiser, C. R. 2022; 122 (5): 873-893

    Abstract

    Sexual harassment is pervasive and has adverse effects on its victims, yet perceiving sexual harassment is wrought with ambiguity, making harassment difficult to identify and understand. Eleven preregistered, multimethod experiments (total N = 4,065 participants) investigated the nature of perceiving sexual harassment by testing whether perceptions of sexual harassment and its impact are facilitated when harassing behaviors target those who fit with the prototype of women (e.g., those who have feminine features, interests, and characteristics) relative to those who fit less well with this prototype. Studies A1-A5 demonstrate that participants' mental representation of sexual harassment targets overlapped with the prototypes of women as assessed through participant-generated drawings, face selection tasks, reverse correlation, and self-report measures. In Studies B1-B4, participants were less likely to label incidents as sexual harassment when they targeted nonprototypical women compared with prototypical women. In Studies C1 and C2, participants perceived sexual harassment claims to be less credible and the harassment itself to be less psychologically harmful when the victims were nonprototypical women rather than prototypical women. This research offers theoretical and methodological advances to the study of sexual harassment through social cognition and prototypicality perspectives, and it has implications for harassment reporting and litigation as well as the realization of fundamental civil rights. For materials, data, and preregistrations of all studies, see https://osf.io/xehu9/. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

    View details for DOI 10.1037/pspi0000260

    View details for PubMedID 33444038

  • Terror in time: extending culturomics to address basic terror management mechanisms. Cognition & emotion Dechesne, M., Bandt-Law, B. 2019; 33 (3): 492-511

    Abstract

    Building on Google's efforts to scan millions of books, this article introduces methodology using a database of annual word frequencies of the 40,000 most frequently occurring words in the American literature between 1800 and 2009. The current paper uses this methodology to replicate and identify terror management processes in historical context. Variation in frequencies of word usage of constructs relevant to terror management theory (e.g. death, worldview, self-esteem, relationships) are investigated over a time period of 209 years. Study 1 corroborated previous TMT findings and demonstrated that word use of constructs related to death and of constructs related to patriotism and romantic relationships significantly co-vary over time. Study 2 showed that the use of the word "death" most strongly co-varies over time with the use of medical constructs, but also co-varies with the use of constructs related to violence, relationships, religion, positive sentiment, and negative sentiment. Study 3 found that a change in the use of death related words is associated with an increase in the use of fear related words, but not in anxiety related words. Results indicate that the described methodology generates valuable insights regarding terror management theory and provide new perspectives for theoretical advances.

    View details for DOI 10.1080/02699931.2018.1460322

    View details for PubMedID 29637804

  • The Sustainability Game: AI Technology as an Intervention for Public Understanding of Cooperative Investment Theodorou, A., Bandt-Law, B., Bryson, J. J., IEEE IEEE. 2019

    View details for Web of Science ID 000843154300070

  • The effect of mortality salience on death penalty sentencing decisions when the defendant is severely mentally ill JOURNAL OF AGGRESSION CONFLICT AND PEACE RESEARCH Bandt-Law, B., Krauss, D. 2017; 9 (2): 141-154

    View details for DOI 10.1108/JACPR-04-2016-0225

    View details for Web of Science ID 000399073900007