Areas of Expertise
I am an experimental psychologist interested in the application of social and cognitive psychology to matters of social justice and law. Using an array of rich behavioral methods, such as live and virtual interactions, longitudinal reporting of naturalistic events, and high-stakes laboratory experiments, as well as both qualitative and quantitative measurements, my research seeks to understand how psychological biases operate across the criminal justice system — from alibi generation and lay perceptions of police-civilian altercations to plea decision-making and prosecutorial ethics.
For up to date information, please visit my website stephanieacardenas.github.io.
Scholarship/Creative Work
Selected Representative Works
Cardenas, S.A. (in press). Charged up and anchored down: A test of two pathways to judgmental and decisional anchoring biases in plea negotiations. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/7s4vz
Kassin, S.M., Cardenas, S.A., Meterko, V., & Barksdale, F. (in press). Prosecutorial misconduct: Assessment of perspectives from the bench. Court Review.
Cardenas, S.A., Crozier, W.E., & Strange, D. (2022). The effect of erroneous alibis. In M. Kienzle & J. Behl (Eds.) Alibis and Corroborators: Psychological, Criminological, and Legal Perspectives. New York, NY: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95663-9_9
Cardenas, S.A., Crozier, W.E., & Strange, D. (2020). Right place, wrong time: The limitations of mental reinstatement of context on alibi-elicitation. Psychology, Crime, and Law. https://doi.org/10.1080/1068316X.2020.1798424
Balcetis, E., & Cardenas, S.A. (2018). Visual experience in self and social judgment: How a biased majority claim a superior minority. Self & Identity. 18(4), 363-377. https://doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2018.1466724
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