James Benjamin

@ajbenjaminjr
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Personal account of a social psychology educator who works at a regional university. I study media violence and its alleged relation to aggression, and have a secondary interest in authoritarianism. I value open science, inclusiveness, and skepticism. I am also a pop culture junkie. My views are mine and do not represent anyone who would dare to employ me. 🐱🇺🇦
Websitehttps://ajbenjaminjrbeta.blogspot.com/
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James BenjaminMay 16, 2025
Bruce Springsteen is right.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/s/4unxM7Kn8B
James BenjaminMay 16, 2025
Steve HermanMay 16, 2025
CNN announces it'll air actor George Clooney’s record-breaking Broadway show “Good Night, and Good Luck,” live on Saturday, June 7. https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/15/entertainment/george-clooney-broadway-play-cnn-televise
CNN to air George Clooney’s ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ Broadway play live on June 7

CNN will exclusively televise actor George Clooney’s record-breaking Broadway show “Good Night, and Good Luck,” on Saturday, June 7, the network announced Thursday.

CNN
James BenjaminMay 14, 2025

Sen. Murphy reads Kristy Noem the riot act.

https://www.reddit.com/r/RealTwitterAccounts/s/NfyvetDgL5

James BenjaminMay 11, 2025

New blog post up, and yes, this is another article coauthored by Brad Bushman.

https://ajbenjaminjrbeta.blogspot.com/2025/05/a-cyberbullying-paper-with-some-concerns.html

#socialpsychology #improvingpsychology

A cyberbullying paper with some concerns

To preface this: studying cyberbullying and examining how bystanders respond to cyberbullying if they notice it is a worthwhile endeavor. I'...

James BenjaminMay 7, 2025
Old White DudeMay 7, 2025

Trump Finds Another Third Country for His Mass Deportations

The #cruelty of felon Trump's administration is astounding.

#immigration #trumpregime #corruption

https://newrepublic.com/post/194950/trump-plans-deportations-libya-hellscape-prisons

Trump Finds Another Hellish Country for His Mass Deportations

The Trump administration has found another country to send people to, even as the courts insist he has to return hundreds of people he’s already deported.

The New Republic
James BenjaminMay 6, 2025
Mг Oгcinatoг 🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦May 6, 2025
Fun fact: If Russia hadn’t invaded Ukraine, they’d have 950,000 more soldiers to march in the 2025 Victory Day parade. #FunFacts #Russia
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James BenjaminMay 6, 2025
Flipboard Science DeskMay 6, 2025

Five former directors of the U.S. National Weather Service are warning that additional cuts to the agency’s staffing could lead to unnecessary deaths during severe weather.

NBC News reports: https://flip.it/tXFwNH

#Weather #NWS #Science #Meteorology #Trump #USPolitics

Former National Weather Service directors push back against cuts

The former admins say that staffing reductions could lead to unnecessary deaths during severe weather like tornadoes, wildfires and hurricanes.

NBC News
Show threadJames BenjaminMay 4, 2025
One pattern you will notice in the articles Bushman authored or coauthored for that special edition of Current Opinion in Psychology: Bushman claimed VU University as one of his affiliations, even though VU University did not claim him as anything more than a contract worker (as Elson documented in a timeline regarding another problematic paper) and as I would find out through an email chain I unwittingly got included on (and in which I learned VU had been asking him to stop for some time).
Show threadJames BenjaminMay 4, 2025

For those wanting more background, here was a blog post from September 2018 I published with my take of the events that led to my own retraction experience. At the time, posting anything publicly was highly risky as Bushman was obsessively following my blog for any posts that might be seen as putting him in a deservedly bad light.

https://ajbenjaminjrbeta.blogspot.com/2018/09/research-confidential-lets-just-get.html

Research Confidential: Let's Just Get This Out of the Way

In many respects, I am a flawed messenger when it comes to understanding what business as usual means in my corner of the scientific univers...

Show threadJames BenjaminMay 4, 2025

The question I have is if the coauthors of the other three articles in that special issue of Current Opinion in Psychology need to look over their shoulders as well.

Here are the links to those remaining articles:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2017.03.034

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2017.04.010

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2017.03.014

Where there's smoke, there is often fire. Just sayin'.