Brad J. Bushman is a Professor of Communication and Psychology at The Ohio State University and a Professor of Communication Science at the VU University Amsterdam (The Netherlands). For over 25 years, he has studied the causes, consequences, and solutions to the problem of human aggression and violence. He is a member of President Obama’s committee on gun violence and has testified before the US Congress on the topic of youth violence.
Early Life and Educational Background
Bushman was born on May 14, 1960, in Salt Lake City, Utah. He earned his B.S. in Psychology from Weber State University in 1984, an M.Ed. in secondary education from Utah State University in 1985, an M.A. in psychology from the University of Missouri in 1987, and an M.A. in statistics from the University of Missouri in 1990. He earned his Ph.D. in social and personality psychology from the University of Missouri in 1989 under the direction of Russell G. Geen.
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Bushman was a professor at Iowa State...
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Brummelman, E., Thomaes, S., Nelemans, S. A., Orobio de Castro, B., Overbeek, G., & Bushman, B. J. (2015). Origins of narcissism in children. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(12), 3659–3662.
Bushman, B. J., DeWall, C. N., Pond Jr., R. S., & Hanus, M. D. (2014). Low glucose relates to greater aggression in married couples. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(17), 6254–6257. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1400619111.
Bushman, B. J., & Huesmann, L. R. (2010). Aggression. In S. T. Fiske, D. T. Gilbert, & G. Lindzey (Eds.), Handbook of social psychology (5th ed., Ch. 23, pp. 833–863). New York: Wiley.
Bushman, B. J., Newman, K., Calvert, S. L., Downey, G., Dredze, M., Gottfredson, M., Jablonski, N. G., Masten, A., Morrill, C., Neill, D. B., Romer, D., & Webster, D. (2016). Youth violence: What we know and what we need to know. American Psychologist, 71(1), 17–39. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0039687.
Konrath, S., Meier, B. P., & Bushman, B. J. (2014). Development and validation of the Single item Narcissism Scale (SINS). PloS One, 9(8), e103469. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0103469.
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Bushman, B.J. (2020). Bushman, Brad J.. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24612-3_387
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