Sean Bennett is a third-year doctoral student in the Psychology and Law program at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, with a dual concentration in Basic and Applied Social Psychology. He received his BA in Psychology with honors from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2023. Sean directs the Public Carry Lab, which explores how people react to encountering armed individuals in public spaces. He serves as manager of the Gun Safety Lab under Mark Fondacaro, researching Extreme Risk Protection Orders and how to balance such orders while maintaining constitutional protections. He also collaborates with Kelly McWilliams on research examining plea bargaining among sex offenders. His first doctoral research, “Beyond the Barrel: Behavioral, Social, and Policy Pathways to Gun Deaths in the United States,” examines gun deaths through behavioral, social, and policy perspectives. He is preparing two firearm-related papers for publication and researching risk factors and warning behaviors related to gun violence. Sean is co-author on “Examining the Consequences of Dehumanization and Adultification in Justification of Police Use of Force Against Black Girls and Boys,” published in Law and Human Behavior. He has presented research at national conferences including ASC and AP-LS, and serves as a recitation leader for Research Methods in Psychology.