Selected Recent
Refereed Publications:
Bushman, B. J., Ridge, R.
D., Das, E., Key, C. W., & Busath, G. L. (2007). When God sanctions
killing; Effect of scriptural violence on aggression. Psychological
Science, 18, 204-207. APS press release Download article Nature
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Konijn, E. A., Nije Bijvank, M., & Bushman, B. J. (in press). I wish I
were a warrior: The role of wishful identification in effects of violent
video games on aggression in adolescent boys. Developmental Psychology. Download article |
Bartholow, B. D., Bushman,
B. J., & Sestir, M. A. (2006). Chronic violent video game exposure and
desensitization to violence: Behavioral and event-related brain potential
data. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 42,
532-539. Download article Science article Tony
Blair cites Bartholow, Bushman, & Sestir study |
Bushman, B. J., &
Huesmann, L. R. (2006). Short-term and long-term effects of violent media on
aggression in children and adults. Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent
Medicine, 160,
348-352. Download article |
Carnagey, N.
L., Anderson. C. A., & Bushman, B. J. (in press). The effect of video
game violence on physiological desensitization to real life violence. Journal
of Experimental Social Psychology. Download article |
Konrath, S., Bushman, B.
J., & Campbell, W. K. (2006). Attenuating the
link between threatened egotism and aggression. Psychological Science, 17, 995-1001. Download article |
Bushman, B. J. (2005). Violence and sex in television programs do not sell
products in advertisements. Psychological Science, 16,
702-708. Download article |
Bushman, B. J., Bonacci, A. M., Pedersen, W. C., Vasquez, E. A., & Miller,
N. (2005). Chewing on it can chew you up: Effects of rumination on triggered
displaced aggression. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88, 969-983. Download article |
Bushman, B. J., Wang, M. C., & Anderson, C. A.
(2005). Is the curve relating temperature to aggression linear or
curvilinear? Assaults and temperature in Minneapolis reexamined. Journal
of Personality and Social Psychology, 89, 62-66. Download article |
Bushman, B. J., Wang, M. C., &
Anderson, C. A. (2005). Is the curve
relating temperature to aggression linear or curvilinear? A Response to Bell
(2005) and to Cohn and Rotton (2005). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89, 74-77. Download article |
Bushman, B. J., & Bonacci, A. M. (2004). You`ve
got mail: Using e-mail to examine the effect of prejudiced attitudes on
discrimination against Arabs. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40,
753-759. Download article |
Campbell, W. K., Bonacci, A. M., Shelton, J., Exline, J. J., &
Bushman, B. J. (2004) Psychological entitlement: Interpersonal consequences
and validation of a self-report measure. Journal of Personality
Assessment, 83, 29-45. Download article |
Exline, J. J., Baumeister, R. F.,
Bushman, B. J., Campbell, W. K., & Finkel, E. J. (2004). Too proud
to let go: Narcissistic entitlement as a barrier to forgiveness. Journal
of Personality and Social Psychology, 87, 894-912. Download article |
Bushman, B. J.,
Bonacci, A. M., Van Dijk, M., & Baumeister, R. F. (2003). Narcissism,
sexual refusal, and aggression: Testing a narcissistic reactance model of
sexual coercion. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84,
1027-1040. Download
article |
Bushman, B. J., & Cantor, J. (2003). Media ratings for violence and
sex: Implications for policy makers and parents. American Psychologist,
58, 130-141. Download article |
Anderson, C. A., & Bushman, B. J. (2002). Media violence and societal
violence. Science, 295, 2377-2378.
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Anderson, C. A., & Bushman, B. J. (2002). Human aggression. Annual Review
of Psychology, 53, 27-51. Download article |
Anderson, C. A., & Bushman, B. J. (2002). Media violence and the
American Public revisited. American Psychologist, 57, 448-450.
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Bushman, B. J. (2002). Does venting anger feed or extinguish the flame?
Catharsis, rumination, distraction, anger, and aggressive responding. Personality
and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28,
724-731. Download article |
Bushman, B. J., & Anderson, C. A. (2002). Violent video games and
hostile expectations: A test of the General Aggression Model. Personality
and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28,
1679-1689. Download
article |
Bushman, B. J., & Bonacci, A. M. (2002). Violence and sex impair
memory for television ads. Journal of Applied Psychology, 87, 557-564. Download article
Washington
Post article |
Yuan, K.-H., & Bushman, B. J. (2002). Combining standardized mean
differences using the method of maximum likelihood. Psychometrika, 67,
589-608. Download article |
Anderson, C. A., & Bushman, B. J. (2001). Effects of violent video
games on aggressive behavior, aggressive cognition, aggressive affect,
physiological arousal, and prosocial behavior: A meta-analytic review of the
scientific literature. Psychological Science, 12, 353-359. Download article Debate
Hour radio program |
Bushman, B. J., & Anderson, C. A. (2001). Media violence and the
American public: Scientific facts versus media misinformation. American
Psychologist, 56, 477-489. Winner of the
2002 Center for Successful Parenting Article Award ($1,000). Download article |
Bushman, B. J., & Anderson, C. A. (2001). Is it time to pull the plug
on the hostile versus instrumental aggression dichotomy? Psychological
Review, 108, 273-279. Download
article |
Bushman, B. J., Baumeister, R. F., & Phillips, C. M. (2001). Do people
aggress to improve their Mood? Catharsis beliefs, affect regulation
opportunity, and aggressive responding. Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology, 81, 17-32.
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York Times article |
Bushman, B. J., & Phillips, C. M. (2001). If the television program
bleeds, memory for the advertisement recedes. Current Directions in
Psychological Science, 10, 44-47.
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Bushman, B. J., & Wells, G. L. (2001). Narrative impressions of
literature: The availability bias and the corrective properties of
meta-analytic approaches. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27,
1123-1130. Download
article |