Psychology & Law
University of Illinois at Chicago
Publications
Salerno, J. M., Bottoms, B. L., & Peter-Hagene, L. (in press). The wrong arguments in the right
hands: Reliance on peripheral heuristics can help groups make better decisions. PLOS One.
Peter-Hagene, L. C., & Bottoms, B. L. (in press). Attitudes, anger, and nullification instructions influence jurors’ verdicts in euthanasia cases. Psychology, Crime, and Law.
Burke, K. C., & Bottoms, B. L. (2017). You’re admitted! But which program should you attend? In M. J. Sleigh, S. Iles, & B. Cannon (Eds.), An eye on graduate school: Guidance through a successful application. Chattanooga, TN: Psi Chi. Reprinted in Eye on Psi Chi (Newsletter of Psi Chi, the Psychology International Honor Society).
Oudekerk, B., & Bottoms, B. L. (2017). Applying to graduate school: The interview process. In M. J. Sleigh, S. Iles, & B. Cannon (Eds.), An Eye on Graduate School: Guidance through a Successful Application, Chattanooga, TN: Psi Chi. Reprinted in Eye on Psi Chi (Newsletter of Psi Chi, the Psychology International Honor Society). Revision of 2007 article in The Observer (Newsletter of the American Psychological Society) and Eye on Psi Chi.
Bottoms, B. L., & Carris, K. L. N. (2017). Applying to graduate school: Writing a compelling personal statement. In M. J. Sleigh, S. Iles, & B. Cannon (Eds.), An eye on graduate school: Guidance through a successful application. Chattanooga, TN: Psi Chi. Reprinted in Eye on Psi Chi (Newsletter of Psi Chi, the Psychology International Honor Society). Revision of 1999 article in The Observer (Newsletter of the American Psychological Society).
Chang, H.-C., Hall, S., & Bottoms, B. L. (2016). Promoting diversity in an honors curriculum. Honors in Higher Education, 1(1).
Bottoms, B. L. (2016). Bette L. Bottoms: Reflections on a life of leadership in academia. In N. Gutgold & A. Linse (Eds.), Women in the academy: Learning from our diverse career pathways (pp. 19-38). New York: Lexington.
Thakral, C., Vasquez, P. L., Bottoms, B. L., Matthews, A. K., Hudson, K. M., & Whitley, S. K. (2016). Understanding difference through dialogue: A first-year experience for college students. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education.
Bottoms, B. L., Peter-Hagene, L. C., Epstein, M. A., Wiley, T. R. A., Reynolds, C. E., & Rudnicki, A. G. (2016). Abuse characteristics and individual differences related to disclosing childhood sexual, physical, and emotional abuse and witnessed domestic violence. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 31, 1308-1339.
Najdowski, C. J., Bottoms, B. L., Stevenson, M. C., & Veilleux, J. C. (2015). A historical review and resource guide to the scholarship of teaching and training in psychology and law and forensic psychology. Training and Education in Professional Psychology, 9, 217-228, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/tep0000095.
Bottoms, B. L., Goodman, G. S., Toulou-Shams, M., Diviak, K., & Shaver, P. R. (2015). Religion-related child maltreatment: A profile of cases encountered by legal and social service agencies. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 33, 561–579.
Najdowski, C. J., Bottoms, B. L., & Goff, P. A. (2015). Stereotype threat and racial differences in citizens' experiences of police encounters. Law and Human Behavior, 39, 463–477.
Najdowski, C. J., & Bottoms, B. L. (2015). Effects of jurors’ gender and attitudes toward intellectual disability on judgments in cases involving disabled juvenile defendants. Journal of Forensic Psychology & Psychiatry, 26, 407-424.
Stevenson, M. C., Najdowski, C. J., Salerno, J. M., Wiley, T. R. A., Bottoms, B. L., & Farnum, K. M. (2015). The influence of a juvenile's abuse history on support for sex offender registration. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 21, 35-49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/law0000028http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/law0000028.
Salerno, J. M., Murphy, M. C., & Bottoms, B. L. (2014). Give the kid a break—but only if he’s straight: Retributive motives drive biases against gay youth in ambiguous punishment contexts. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 20, 398 – 410.
Salerno, J. M., Najdowski, C. J., Bottoms, B. L., Kemner, G.*, Dave, R., & Harrington, E. (2014). Excusing murder? Conservative jurors’ acceptance of the gay panic defense. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 21, 24-34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/law0000024.
Bottoms, B. L., Peter-Hagene, C. L., Stevenson, M. C., Wiley, T. R. A., & Mitchell, T. S. (2014). Explaining gender differences in jurors' reactions to child sexual abuse cases. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 32, 789-812.
Salerno, J. M., Stevenson, M. C., Najdowski, C. J., Wiley, T. R. A., Bottoms, B. L., & Peter-Hagene, C. L. (2013). Applying sex offender registry laws to juvenile offenders: Biases against stigmatized youth. In M. K. Miller & J. C. Chamberlain (Eds.), Psychology, law, and the wellbeing of children (pp. 66-82). Oxford.
Achilles, G. A., Barrueco, S., & Bottoms, B. L. (2013). The evolving legacy of the American Psychological Association’s Division 37: Bridging research, practice, and policy to benefit children and families. In A. Culp (Ed.), Child and family advocacy: Bridging the gaps between research, practice, and policy (pp. 271-290). New York, NY: Springer.
Haegerich, T. M., Salerno, J. M., & Bottoms, B. L. (2013). Are the effects of juvenile offender stereotypes maximized or minimized by jury deliberation? Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 19, 81-97.
Wiley, T. R., & Bottoms, B. L. (2013). Attitudinal and individual differences influence perceptions of mock child sexual assault cases involving gay defendants. Journal of Homosexuality, 60, 734-749.
Bottoms, B. L., Najdowski, C. J., Epstein, M. E., & Badanek, M. (2012). Trauma severity and defensive emotion-regulation reactions as predictors of forgetting childhood trauma. Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, 13, 291-310.
Najdowski, C. J., & Bottoms, B. L. (2012). Understanding jurors' judgments in cases involving juvenile defendants: Effects of confession evidence and intellectual disability. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 18, 297-337. (Winner of the 2011-12 APA Edwin B. Newman Graduate Research Award).
Stevenson, M. C., Najdowski, C. J., Bottoms, B. L., Sorenson, K. M., & Perry, S. P. (2011). Jurors' perceptions of juvenile offenders tried in adult criminal court. In A. E. Hasselm (Ed.), Crime: Causes, types and victims (pp. 141-153). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
Reynolds, C. E., Najdowski, C. J., Salerno, J. M., Stevenson, M. C., Wiley, T. R. A., & Bottoms, B. L. (2011). Public perceptions of registry laws for juvenile sex offenders. In N. A. Ramsay & C. R. Morrison (Eds.), Youth violence: Causes, intervention and treatment programs (pp. 361-365). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
Nysse-Carris, K., Bottoms, B. L., & Salerno, J. M. (2011). Experts’ and novices’ abilities to detect children's high-stakes lies of omission. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 17, 76-98.
Bottoms, B. L., Kalder, A. K., Stevenson, M. C., Oudekerk, B. A., Wiley, T. R., & Perona, A. R. (2011). Gender differences in jurors’ perceptions of infanticide involving disabled and non-disabled infant victims. Child Abuse and Neglect, 35, 127-141.
Hernandez, G., Salerno, J. M., & Bottoms, B. L. (2010). Attachment to God, religious coping, and alcohol use. International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 20, 97-108. Translation in Dinbilim Academic Research Journal, 13, 259-276, 2013.
Stevenson, M. C., Bottoms, B. L., & Diamond, S. S. (2010). Jurors’ discussions of a defendant’s history of child abuse and alcohol abuse in capital sentencing deliberations. Psychology, Public Policy, and the Law, 16, 1 - 38.
Salerno, J. M., Stevenson, M. C., Wiley, T. R. A., Najdowski, C. J., Bottoms, B. L., & Doran, R. (2010). Public attitudes toward applying sex offender registration laws to juvenile offenders. In J. M. Lampinen & K. Sexton-Radek (Eds.), Protecting children from violence: Evidence based interventions (pp. 193-218). New York: Psychology Press.
Salerno, J. M., Najdowski, C. J., Stevenson, M. C., Wiley, T. R. A., Bottoms, B. L., Vaca, R., Pimentel, P. S. (2010). Psychological mechanisms underlying support for juvenile sex offender registry laws: Prototypes, moral outrage, and perceived threat. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 28, 58-83.
Salerno, J. M., & Bottoms, B. L. (2010). Unintended consequences of toying with jurors’ emotions: The impact of disturbing emotional evidence on jurors’ verdicts. The Jury Expert, 22, 16-25.
Stevenson, M. C., & Bottoms, B. L. (2009). Race shapes perceptions of juvenile offenders in criminal court. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 39, 1660-1689.
Perry, S., York, C. S., Bottoms, B. L., Block, S., & Goodman, G. S. (2009). Children as witnesses. Encyclopedia of Forensic Sciences. Wiley.
Salerno, J., & Bottoms, B. L. (2009). Emotional evidence and jurors' judgments: The promise of neuroscience for informing psychology and law. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 27, 273-296.
Najdowski, C. J., Bottoms, B. L., & Vargas, M. C. (2009). Jurors’ perceptions of juvenile defendants: The influence of intellectual disability, abuse history, and confession evidence. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 27, 401-430.
Ducker, J. N., Salerno, J. M., Najdowski, C. J., Bottoms, B. L., & Goodman, G. S. (2009). Children as victims, witnesses, and offenders: An introduction through legal cases. In B. L. Bottoms, C. J. Najdowski, & G. S. Goodman (Eds.), Children as victims, witnesses, and offenders: Psychological science and the law (pp. 1-15). New York: Guilford.
Stevenson, M. C., Najdowski, C. J., Bottoms, B. L., & Haegerich, T. M. (2009). Understanding adults' perceptions of juvenile offenders. In B. L. Bottoms, C. J. Najdowski, & G. S. Goodman (Eds.), Children as victims, witnesses, and offenders: Psychological science and the law (pp. 349-368). New York: Guilford.
Wiley, T. R. A., & Bottoms, B. L. (2009). Effects of defendant sexual orientation on jurors’ perceptions of child sexual abuse. Law and Human Behavior, 33, 46-60.
Randolph-Seng, B., Nielsen, M. E., Bottoms, B. L., & Filipas, H. H. (2008). The relationship between ethnicity, Christian orthodoxy, and mental health. Mental Health, Religion, & Culture, 11, 795-805.
Bottoms, B. L., Harris, L., Augusti, E. M., Goodman, G. S., Oudekerk, B. A., & Wiley, T., (2007). Child maltreatment. In B. Cutler (Ed.), Encyclopedia of law and psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Najdowski, C. J., & Bottoms, B. L. (2007). Children's testimony, evaluation by juries. In B. L. Cutler (Ed.), Encyclopedia of psychology and law (pp. 82-84). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Bottoms, B. L. (2007). The benefits of socially supportive interviewing for child eyewitnesses. Loyola University School of Law Public Interest Law Reporter, 11, 3-4 & 43.
Bottoms, B. L., Perona, A. R., Sorenson, E., & Najdowski, C. J. (2007). Interviewing suspected victims of child maltreatment. In N. A. Jackson (Ed.), Encyclopedia of domestic violence (pp. 137-141), New York: Routledge.
Oudekerk, B., & Bottoms, B. L. (2007). Children. In D. S. Clark (Ed.), Encyclopedia of law and society: American and global perspectives. (pp. 173-178). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Bottoms, B. L., Golding, J. M., Stevenson, M. C., Wiley, T. R. A., & Yozwiak, J. A. (2007). A review of factors affecting jurors' decisions in child sexual abuse cases. In J. D. Read, D. Ross, M. Toglia, & R. Lindsay (Eds.), The psychology of eyewitness memory. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Bottoms, B. L., Quas, J. A., & Davis, S. L. (2007). The influence of the interviewer-provided social support on children's suggestibility, memory, and disclosures. In M. E. Pipe, M. Lamb, Y. Orbach, & A. C. Cedarborg (Eds.), Child sexual abuse: Disclosure, delay, and denial. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Bottoms, B. L., Rudnicki, A. G., & Epstein, M. A. (2007). A retrospective study of factors affecting the disclosure of childhood sexual and physical abuse. In M. E. Pipe, M. Lamb, Y. Orbach, & A. C. Cedarborg (Eds.), Child sexual abuse: Disclosure, delay, and denial. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Bottoms, B. L., & Quas, J. A. (2006). Recent Advances and New Challenges in Child Maltreatment Research, Practice, and Policy: Previewing the Issues. Journal of Social Issues, 62, 653-662.
Perona, A. R., Bottoms, B. L., & Sorenson, E. (2006). Research-based guidelines for child forensic interviews. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, 12, 81-130. Reprinted in V. Veith, B. L. Bottoms , & A. Perona (Eds.). Ending child abuse: New techniques for investigation prosecution and prevention. Binghamton, NY: Haworth.
Vieth, V. I., Bottoms, B. L., & Perona, A. R. (2006). Ending child abuse: Introducing a collection of new perspectives and practical techniques. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, 12, 1-3.
Wiley, T. R. A., Bottoms, B. L., Stevenson, M., & Oudekerk, B. (2006). A criança perante o sistema legal: dados da investigação psicológica. [Psychological research related to children, policy, and law]. In A. C. Fonseca, M. R. Simões, M. C. T. Simões, & M. S. Pinho (Eds)., Psicologia forense [Forensic psychology] (pp. 313-354). Coimbra, Portugal: Almedina.
Bottoms, B. L., Davis, S. L., & Epstein, M. E. (2004). Effects of victim and defendant race on jurors' decisions in child sexual abuse cases. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 34, 1-33.
Bottoms, B. L., & Rudnicki, A. (2004). Jurors' perceptions of child witnesses. In C. B. Fisher & R. M. Lerner (Eds.). Applied developmental science: An encyclopedia of research, policies, and programs. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Bottoms, B. L., Nielsen, M., Murray, R., & Filipas, H. (2003). Religion-related child physical abuse: Characteristics and psychological outcomes. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, 8. Reprinted in J. Mullins, J. Marquart, & D. J. Hartley (Eds.), Emerging issues in the victimization of children: Trends, patterns, and problems (pp. 87 - 114). Binghamton, NY: Haworth.
Bottoms, B. L., Nysse-Carris, K. L., Harris, T., & Tyda, K. (2003). Jurors' perceptions of adolescent sexual assault victims who have intellectual disabilities. Law and Human Behavior, 27, 205-227.
Bottoms, B. L., Goodman, G. S., Schwartz-Kenney, B. M., & Thomas, S. N. (2002). Understanding children's use of secrecy in the context of eyewitness reports. Law and Human Behavior, 26, 285-314.
Bottoms, B. L., Reppucci, N. D., Tweed, J. A., & Nysse-Carris, K. L. (2002). Children, psychology, and law: Reflections on past and future contributions to science and policy. In J. R. P. Ogloff (Ed.), Taking psychology and law into the twenty-first century. Perspectives in law & psychology (Vol. 14, pp. 61-117). New York, NY: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.
Davis, S. L., & Bottoms, B. L. (2002). Effects of social support on children's eyewitness testimonies: A test of the underlying mechanism. Law and Human Behavior, 26, 185-215.
Davis, S. L., & Bottoms, B. L. (2002). The effects of social support on the accuracy of children's reports: Implications for the forensic interview. In M. L. Eisen, J. A. Quas & G. S. Goodman (Eds.), Memory and suggestibility in the forensic interview (pp. 437-457). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Epstein, M. A., & Bottoms, B. L. (2002). Explaining the forgetting and recovery of abuse and trauma memories: Possible mechanisms. Child Maltreatment, 7, 210-225.
Quas, J. A., Bottoms, B. L., Haegerich, T. M., & Nysse-Carris, K. L. (2002). Effects of victim, defendant, and juror gender on decisions in child sexual assault cases. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 32, 1993-2021.
Quas, J. A., Bottoms, B. L., & Nunez, N. (2002). Child maltreatment and delinquency: Framing issues of causation and consequence. Children's Services: Social Policy, Research, & Practice, 5, 245-248.
Bottoms, B. L., Kovera, M. B., & McAuliff, B. D. (2002). Children, law, social science, and policy: An introduction to the issues. In B. L. Bottoms, M. B. Kovera, & B. D. McAuliff (Eds.), Children, Social Science, and the Law (pp. 1-14). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Goodman, G. S., Bottoms, B. L., Rudy, L., Davis, S. L., & Schwartz-Kenney, B. M. (2001). Effects of past abuse experiences on children's eyewitness memory. Law and Human Behavior, 25, 269-298.
Bottoms, B. L. (2000). Children’s eyewitness testimony. In A. Kazdin (Ed.), The encyclopedia of psychology. American Psychological Association and Oxford University Press.
Haegerich, T., & Bottoms, B. L. (2000). Empathy and jurors' decisions in patricide trials involving child sexual assault allegations. Law and Human Behavior, 24, 421-448.
Epstein, M. A., & Bottoms, B. L. (1998). Memories of childhood sexual abuse: A survey of young adults.Child Abuse & Neglect, 22, 1217-1238.
Goodman, G. S., Bottoms, B. L., Redlich, A., Shaver, P. R., & Diviak, K. R. (1998). Correlates of multiple forms of victimization in religion-related child abuse cases. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, 2, 273-295. [Reprinted in B. B. R. Rossman & M. S. Rosenberg (Eds.) (1998). Multiple victimization of children: Conceptual, developmental, research, and treatment issues (pp. 273-295). Binghamton, NY: Haworth.]
Qin, J., Goodman, G. S., Bottoms, B. L., & Shaver, P. R. (1998). Repressed memories of ritualistic and religion-related child abuse. In S. J. Lynn & K. M. McConkey (Eds.), Truth in memory. (pp. 260-283). New York, NY: Guilford Press.
Goodman, G. S., Quas, J. A., Bottoms, B. L., Qin, J. J., Shaver, P. R., Orcutt, H., & Shapiro, C. (1997). Children's religious knowledge: Implications for understanding allegations of satanic ritual abuse allegations. Child Abuse and Neglect, 16, 1111-1130.
Bottoms, B. L., & Davis, S. L. (1997). The creation of satanic ritual abuse. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 16, 112-132. [Reprinted in the Skeptical Intelligencer (1999), 3, pp. 28-41].
Bottoms, B. L., Diviak, K. R., & Davis, S. L. (1997). Jurors' reactions to satanic ritual abuse allegations. Child Abuse and Neglect, 21, 845-859.
Bottoms, B. L., & Goodman, G. S. (1996). International perspectives on child witnesses: An introduction to the issues. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 23, 260-268. [Also in B. L. Bottoms & G. S. Goodman (Eds.) International perspectives on child abuse and children's testimony: Psychological research and law. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.]
Bottoms, B. L., Shaver, P. R., & Goodman, G. S. (1996). An analysis of ritualistic and religion-related child abuse allegations. Law and Human Behavior, 20, 1-34.
Bottoms, B. L. (1996). Repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse: Where the fight against child sexual abuse supposedly went awry. [Review of the book Return of the furies: An investigation into recovered memory therapy]. Contemporary Psychology, 41, 1126-1128.
Carter, C. A., Bottoms, B. L., & Levine, M. (1996). Linguistic and socio-emotional influences on the accuracy of children's reports. Law and Human Behavior, 20, 335-358.
Schwartz-Kenney, B. M., Bottoms, B. L., & Goodman, G. S. (1996). Improving children's person identification. Child Maltreatment, 1, 121-133.
Bottoms, B. L. (1995). Sexual abuse in preschools: Context, aftermath, & controversy. [Review of the book Behind the playground walls: Sexual abuse in preschools]. Contemporary Psychology, 40, 1067-1068.
Bottoms, B. L., Shaver, P. R., Goodman, G. S., & Qin, J. J. (1995). In the name of God: A profile of religion-related child abuse. Journal of Social Issues, 51, 85-111. [Reprinted in Hurley, J. (Ed.) (1999). Child abuse. San Diego: Greenhaven.]
Bottoms, B. L., & Goodman, G. S. (1994). Perceptions of children's credibility in sexual assault cases. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 24, 702-732.
Bottoms, B. L. (1993). Individual differences in perceptions of child sexual assault victims. In G. S. Goodman & B. L. Bottoms (Eds.), Child victims, child witnesses: Understanding and improving testimony (pp. 229-261). New York, NY: Guilford Press.
Goodman, G. S., Bottoms, B. L., Schwartz-Kenney, B., & Rudy, L. (1991). Children's testimony about a stressful event: Improving children's reports. Journal of Narrative and Life History, 1, 69-99.
Goodman, G. S., Rudy, L., Bottoms, B., & Aman, C. (1990). Children's concerns and memory: Issues of ecological validity in the study of children's eyewitness testimony. In R. Fivush & J. Hudson (Eds.), Knowing and remembering in young children (pp. 249-284). New York: Cambridge.
Goodman, G. S., Bottoms, B. L., Herscovici, B. B., & Shaver, P. R. (1989). Determinants of the child victim's perceived credibility. In S. J. Ceci, D. F. Ross, & M. P. Toglia (Eds.), Perspectives on the child witness (pp. 1-22). New York: Springer-Verlag.