Arlin James Benjamin, Jr.
Oklahoma Panhandle State University
Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences
P.O. Box 430
Goodwell, Oklahoma 73939
U.S.A.
Home Page
Phone: (580) 349-1470
Fax: (580) 349-2302
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Current interests include cognitive and behavioral effects of exposure to media violence (e.g. videogames) and images of firearms, individual differences in aggressive cognition and behavior, and the application of meta-analytic techniques to the study of aggression. Increasingly, my interests are leading me to attempt to apply social psychological theories of aggression to our understanding of such phenomena as torture and genocide. I am also interested in right-wing authoritarianism. I was inducted into Sigma Xi in 1997.
APA members, please support Steven Reisner's bid to become president of the organization. His statement may be read here.
Also for APA members is a petition, the gist of which follows below: "Be it resolved that psychologists may not work in settings where persons are held outside of, or in violation of, either International Law (e.g., the UN Convention Against Torture and the Geneva Conventions) or the US Constitution (where appropriate), unless they are working directly for the persons being detained or for an independent third party working to protect human rights."
 Journal Articles:
 Anderson, C. A., & Benjamin, A. J., Jr., & Bartholow, B. D. (1998). Does the gun pull the trigger? Automatic priming effects of weapon pictures and weapon names. Psychological Science, 9, 308-314.
- Anderson, C. A., Benjamin, A. J., Jr., Wood, P. K., & Bonacci, A. M. (2006). Development and testing of the attitudes toward violence scale: Evidence for a four-factor model. Aggressive Behavior, 32, 122-136.
- Bartholow, B. D., Anderson, C. A., Carnagey, N. L., & Benjamin, A. J., Jr. (2005). Interactive effects of life experience and situational cues on aggression: The weapons priming effect in hunters and nonhunters. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 41, 48-60.
- Benjamin, A. J., Jr. (2008). The general aggression model as a framework for understanding torture and genocide. National Social Science Journal, 31(1), 1-8.
- Benjamin, A. J., Jr. (2006). Human aggression and violence: Understanding torture from a psychological perspective. National Social Science Journal, 26(2), 12-19.
- Benjamin, A. J., Jr. (2006). The relationship between right-wing authoritarianism and attitudes toward violence: Further validation of the Attitudes Toward Violence Scale. Social Behavior and Personality: An International Journal, 34, 923-926.
- Benjamin, A. J., Jr. (1999). The influence of locus of control and aggressiveness of rock music videos on aggression: A reanalysis and methodological critique of Wann and Wilson (1996). Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, 14, 491-498.
- Benjamin, A. J., Jr., Riggio, R. E., & Mayes, B. T. (1996). Reliability and factor structure of Budner’s tolerance for ambiguity scale. Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, 11, 625-632.
- Bettencourt, B. A., Talley, A., Benjamin, A. J., Jr., & Valentine, J. (2006). Personality and aggressive behavior under provoking and neutral conditions: A meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin, 132, 751-777.
Other Publications:
- Anderson, C. A., Flanagan, M., Carnagey, N. L., Benjamin, A. J., Jr., Eubanks, J., & Valentine, J. C. (2004). Violent video games: Specific effects of violent content on aggressive thoughts and behavior. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 36, 199-249.
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