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• Benjamin, A. J., Jr. (2023. Aggression. In H. S. Friedman & C. H. Markey (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Mental Health (3rd ed.,Vol. 1, pp. 44-51). Elsevier, Academic Press. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-91497-0.00179-X

• Benjamin, A. J., Jr. (2021). Weapons effect. In In J. Van den Bulck (Editor-in-Chief), International Encyclopedia of Media Psychology (Vol. III, pp. 1965-1968). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119011071.iemp0290

• Benjamin, A. J., Jr. (2020). Assessing implicit motives. In B. J. Carducci (Editor-in-Chief & Vol Ed.), The Wiley-Blackwell encyclopedia of personality and individual differences (Vol. II, pp. 363-366). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

• Benjamin, A. J., Jr. (2020). Type A/B personalities. In B. J. Carducci (Editor-in-Chief) & J. S. Mio & R. E. Riggio (Vol. Eds.), Wiley-Blackwell encyclopedia of personality and individual differences (Vol. IV, pp. 383-386). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

• Benjamin, A. J., Jr., & Crosby M. (2019). A case of unintended cognitive consequences: Guns prohibited images prime aggressive thoughts. Journal of Mental Health and Social Behavior, 1, 103.

• Benjamin, A. J., Jr. (2019). The weapons effect. National Social Science Journal, 52 (1), 1-6.

• Benjamin, A. J., Jr., Kepes, S., & Bushman, B. J. (2018). Effects of weapons on aggressive thoughts, angry feelings, hostile appraisals, and aggressive behavior: A meta-analytic review of the weapons effect literature. Personality and Social Psychology Review ,22, 347-377.

• Benjamin, A. J., Jr., & Oelke, S. E. (2016). Framing effects on attitudes toward torture. Kommunikáció, Média, Gazdaság, 13 (1), 229-241.

• Benjamin, A. J., Jr., & Bushman, B. J. (2016). The weapons priming effect. Current Opinion in Psychology, 12, 45-48.

• Benjamin, A. J., Jr. (2016). Right-wing authoritarianism and attitudes toward torture. Social Behavior and Personality: An International Journal, 44, 881-888.

• Benjamin, A. J., Jr. (2016). Aggression. In H. S. Friedman (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Mental Health (2nd ed.,Vol. 1, pp. 33-39). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

• Benjamin, A. J., Jr. (2015). Measuring right-wing authoritarianism and ideology. National Social Science Journal, 44(1), 5-7.

• Benjamin, A. J., Jr. (2014). Chasing the elusive left-wing authoritarian: An examination of Altemeyer’s Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Left-Wing Authoritarianism scales. National Social Science Journal, 43(1), 7-13.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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. (2006). Human aggression and violence: Understanding torture from a psychological perspective. National Social Science Journal, 26(2), 12-19.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Anderson, C. A., Benjamin, A. J., Jr., and Bartholow, B. D. (1998). Does the gun pull the trigger? Automatic priming effects of weapon pictures and weapon names. Psychological Science, 9, 308-314.

• Benjamin, A. J., Jr., Riggio, R. E., and Mayes, B. T. (1996). Reliability and factor structure of Budner’s tolerance for ambiguity scale. Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, 11, 625-632.