C Arnold Anderson

Biographic Data

ID10640
NAMEC Arnold Anderson
GIVEN NAMESC Arnold
FAMILY NAMEAnderson
SIGNATUREANDERSON C A
AFFILIATIONSIowa State University
ORCID0000-0001-6353-0023
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS159
TOTAL CITATIONS939
AUTHOR COUNT159
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1929
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX17

  • The Question of Violent Video Games and Aggression: Testing Statistical and Methodological Issues of Null Effects Using Data From an Open‐Access Case Study

    Open AccessAndreas Miles‐novelo, C Arnold AndersonARTICLEAggressive Behavior2025References: 29

    While numerous meta‐analyses, reviews, and task forces from various scientific bodies have linked violent media use to aggression, some studies report null effects and claim that such a relationship is non‐existent. Several scholars have noted that potential methodological and statistical errors could explain failures to replicate these effects. One recent failure to replicate established violent video game effects (Przybylski and Weinstein 2019)…

  • Science in a World on Fire: The Impact of Donald Trump's Anti‐Climate Policies on Social Psychological Research

    Open AccessAndreas Miles‐novelo, C Arnold AndersonARTICLESocial and Personality Psychology…2025Cited by: 1References: 46

    On January 20th, 2025, United States President Donald Trump signed an executive order seeking to dismantle and halt all federal funding producing research and programmatic applications along any intersection of “diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility” (DEIA), as well as programs and research on “environmental justice.” Policies such as the January 20th executive order, as well as the directives to halt all grant funding and research at l…

  • A Meta-Analytic Review of the Validity of the Tangram Help/Hurt Task

    Open AccessSophie L Kjærvik, Muniba Saleem et al.ARTICLEPersonality and Social Psychology…2024

    The Tangram Help/Hurt Task (THHT) allows participants to help another participant win a prize (by assigning them easy tangrams), to hurt another participant by preventing them from winning the prize (by assigning them difficult tangrams), or to do neither (by assigning them medium tangrams) in offline or online studies. Consistent with calls for continued evidence supporting psychological measurement, we conducted a meta-analytic review of the TH…

  • Development and validation of the Forms and Functions of Aggressive Behavior Scale

    Open AccessNicole L Hayes, C Arnold AndersonARTICLEAggressive Behavior2024Cited by: 1References: 50

    Preventing aggression is a global social issue that warrants additional research with up‐to‐date measures. Aggressive behaviors manifest in several ways, and the proper assessment should capture its multidimensional nature. We developed the Forms and Functions of Aggressive Behavior Scale (FFABS) to capture the field's current multidimensional understanding of aggression, including its forms (physical, verbal, and relational) and functions (proac…

  • Straw men, bogus claims, and misinformation about media violence: Reply to comment by Devilly et al. (2023)

    C Arnold Anderson, Brad J BushmanARTICLEPsychology of Popular Media2023

  • Solving the puzzle of null violent media effects

    Brad J Bushman, C Arnold AndersonARTICLEPsychology of Popular Media2023

  • Developmental Changes in the Relation between Youth Disclosure and Parenting Behavior: A Cohort-sequential Analysis

    Open AccessSara E Goldstein, Meagan Docherty et al.ARTICLEJournal of Youth and Adolescence2023Cited by: 2References: 71

  • Who finds media violence funny? Testing the effects of media violence exposure and dark personality traits

    Johnie J Allen, Sabrina M Ash et al.ARTICLEPsychology of Popular Media2022

  • Further tests of the media violence–aggression link: Replication and extension of the 7 Nations Project with multiple Latinx samples

    Andreas Miles‐novelo, Christopher L Groves et al.ARTICLEPsychology of Popular Media2022

  • Climate Change and Human Behavior: Impacts of a Rapidly Changing Climate on Human Aggression and Violence

    Open AccessAndreas Miles‐novelo, Andreas Miles-Novelo et al.BOOKClimate Change and Human Behavior2022

    Much of the current rhetoric surrounding climate change focuses on the physical changes to the environment and the resulting material damage to infrastructure and resources. Although there has been some dialogue about secondary effects (namely mass migration), little effort has been given to understanding how rapid climate change is affecting people on group and individual levels. In this Element, we examine the psychological impacts of climate c…

  • Are mindful people less aggressive? The role of emotion regulation in the relations between mindfulness and aggression

    Open AccessEl‐lim Kim, Douglas A Gentile et al.ARTICLEAggressive Behavior2022Cited by: 2References: 88

    Inducing mindfulness has shown a promising effect on reducing aggression in both clinical and nonclinical populations, possibly because mindfulness can improve emotion regulation. The present study examined the association between mindfulness and aggression through potential mediating effects of several emotion regulation strategies. University and community samples of U.S. adults completed questionnaires on mindfulness, emotion regulation strate…

  • Aggressive Behavior guidelines on special issues and special sections

    Open AccessC Arnold AndersonARTICLEAggressive Behavior2022

  • The Contrasting Effects of an Action Video Game on Visuo-Spatial Processing and Proactive Cognitive Control

    Open AccessRobert West, Edward L Swing et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2020

    First person shooter or action video games represent one of the most popular genres within the gaming industry. Studies reveal that action gaming experience leads to enhancements of visuo-spatial processing. In contrast, some correlational evidence reveals that experience with action video games may be associated with reduced proactive cognitive control. The two primary goals of the current study were to test the causal nature of the effect of ac…

  • Satisfaction and frustration of basic psychological needs in the real world and in video games predict internet gaming disorder scores and well-being

    Open AccessJohnie J Allen, C Arnold AndersonARTICLEComputers in Human Behavior2018

  • The General Aggression Model

    Open AccessJohnie J Allen, C Arnold Anderson et al.ARTICLECurrent Opinion in Psychology2018

  • Risk factors for youth violence: Youth violence commission, International Society For Research On Aggression (Isra)

    Open AccessBrad J Bushman, Sarah M Coyne et al.ARTICLEAggressive Behavior2018Cited by: 2References: 52

    The authors have no conflict of interest to disclose. Brad J. Bushman1 Sarah M. Coyne2 Craig A. Anderson3 Kaj Björkqvist4 Paul Boxer5 Kenneth A. Dodge6 Eric F. Dubow7 David P. Farrington8 Douglas A. Gentile9 L. Rowell Huesmann10 Jennifer E. Lansford6 Raymond W. Novaco11 Jamie M. Ostrov12 Marion K. Underwood13 Wayne A. Warburton14 Michele L. Ybarra15 1School of Communication, Department of Psychology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 2Sch…

  • Media Violence and the General Aggression Model

    Open AccessC Arnold Anderson, Brad J BushmanARTICLEJournal of Social Issues2018Cited by: 33References: 85

    The General Aggression Model (GAM) is a meta‐theory that considers the role of personal and situational variables on aggressive behavior, ranging from the biological to the cultural. Possible mediating variables include internal states (e.g., aggressive thoughts, angry feelings, increased physiological arousal) and the results of appraisal and decision processes (automatic and controlled). In this article, we focus on one situational variable—exp…

  • Aggression

    Open AccessC Arnold AndersonCHAPTERWiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of…2017

    This entry defines aggression, its various subtypes, and its relation to violence. It also gives a brief overview of risk factors that contribute to aggression, ranging from biological to sociological to psychological. Distinctions between types of aggression include reactive versus proactive, direct versus indirect, and physical versus verbal versus relational. Violence is a subtype of aggression, defined by likely severe consequences.

  • Exposure to Muslims in Media and Support for Public Policies Harming Muslims

    Open AccessMuniba Saleem, Sara Prot et al.ARTICLECommunication Research2017

    Few studies have empirically examined how media stereotypes of Muslims influence Americans’ support for public policies exclusively harming Muslims. Across three studies, we tested the short-term and long-term effects of news portraying Muslims as terrorists on Americans’ support for public policies harming Muslims domestically and internationally. Study 1 revealed that exposure to news portraying Muslims as terrorists is positively associated wi…

  • Helping and hurting others: Person and situation effects on aggressive and prosocial behavior as assessed by the Tangram task

    Open AccessMuniba Saleem, Christopher P Barlett et al.ARTICLEAggressive Behavior2017References: 43

    The Tangram Help/Hurt Task is a laboratory-based measure designed to simultaneously assess helpful and hurtful behavior. Across five studies we provide evidence that further establishes the convergent and discriminant validity of the Tangram Help/Hurt Task. Cross-sectional and meta-analytic evidence finds consistently significant associations between helpful and hurtful scores on the Tangram Task and prosocial and aggressive personality traits. E…

  • Violent video game effects remain a societal concern: Reply to Hilgard, Engelhardt, and Rouder (2017)

    Sven Kepe, Sven Kepes et al.ARTICLEPsychological Bulletin2017Cited by: 1

    A large meta-analysis by Anderson et al. (2010) found that violent video games increased aggressive thoughts, angry feelings, physiological arousal, and aggressive behavior and decreased empathic feelings and helping behavior. Hilgard, Engelhardt, and Rouder (2017) reanalyzed the data of Anderson et al. (2010) using newer publication bias methods (i.e., precision-effect test, precision-effect estimate with standard error, p-uniform, p-curve). Bas…

  • Aggression, Social Psychology of

    Open AccessWayne Warburton, Wayne A Warburton et al.CHAPTERInternational Encyclopedia of the…2015

  • Consensus on media violence effects: Comment on Bushman, Gollwitzer, and Cruz (2015)

    C Arnold Anderson, Luca Andrighetto et al.ARTICLEPsychology of Popular Media Culture2015References: 1

    We summarize the main findings of Bushman, Gollwitzer, and Cruz (2015), highlight its empirical contributions, and note interesting patterns and implications for future research. The results demonstrate that consensus exists among experts on the reality of harmful media violence effects on children and adolescents. We note likely differences in the makeup of the different samples and how these might have affected the results. This comment also pr…

  • Understanding Causality in the Effects of Media Violence

    Open AccessBrad J Bushman, C Arnold AndersonARTICLEAmerican Behavioral Scientist2015Cited by: 3References: 30

    This article places media violence research into a broader context than the typical public debate about whether violent video games (or TV programs, or movies) are "the" cause of school shootings and other extreme acts of violence. We describe how scientists today decide whether one variable (e.g., exposure to violent media) increases the risks for, contributes to, or causes another (e.g., aggressive or violent behavior). We discuss the different…

  • Long-Term Relations Among Prosocial-Media Use, Empathy, and Prosocial Behavior

    Open AccessSara Prot, Douglas A Gentile et al.ARTICLEPsychological Science2014

    Despite recent growth of research on the effects of prosocial media, processes underlying these effects are not well understood. Two studies explored theoretically relevant mediators and moderators of the effects of prosocial media on helping. Study 1 examined associations among prosocial- and violent-media use, empathy, and helping in samples from seven countries. Prosocial-media use was positively associated with helping. This effect was mediat…