Victor Benassi

Biographic Data

ID5380267
NAMEVictor Benassi
GIVEN NAMESVictor
FAMILY NAMEBenassi
SIGNATUREBENASSI V
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of New Hampshire
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS9
AUTHOR COUNT13
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1972
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
H-INDEX2

  • The connectedness to nature scale: A measure of emotional connection to nature?

    Open AccessJeffrey Perrin, Jeffrey L Perrin et al.ARTICLEJournal of Environmental Psychology2009

  • Measurement of the conjunction error in social judgment: Answer choice and answer justification

    Open AccessRussell L Knoth, Victor A Benassi et al.ARTICLESocial Behavior and Personality…2009

    People often judge the probability of two events occurring together to be more probable than the less probable of each of these events occurring separately, thereby demonstrating the conjunction error. "Correct" responses are those in which participants rank a single-element statement of low probability as more probable than a conjunction consisting of a low-probability statement and an additional statement. We demonstrated in two studies that ta…

  • Are Depressive Symptoms Positively or Negatively Associated With the Illusion of Control

    Open AccessPaul K Presson, Victor A Benassi et al.ARTICLESocial Behavior and Personality…2003

    This research addressed whether depressive symptoms were positively or negatively associated with the extent to which research participants showed an illusion of control. In Study 1, 85 female college students participated in a psychokinesis (PK) task and completed a magical ideation scale. Consistent with research reported by Thalbourne and others (e.g., Thalbourne & Delin, 1994), participants who showed higher levels of depressive symptoms also…

  • Judgment of Contingency: Contrast and Assimilation, Displacement of Judgments, and Self-Efficacy

    Open AccessSteven C Clark, Victor A Benassi et al.ARTICLESocial Behavior and Personality…1997

    College students who judged extreme contingency problems (100% or 0%) and then midscale problems (50%) produced a contrast effect whereas students who judged more moderate contingency problems (67% or 33%) and then the same midscale problems did not. In addition, students in the 100%–50% and 67%–50% experimental conditions showed greater judgmental displacement from their anchoring judgments than participants in the 0%–50% and 33%–50% conditions.…

  • The Levenson Locus of Control Scales: Confirmatory Factor Analyses and Evaluation

    Open AccessPaul K Presson, Steven C Clark et al.ARTICLESocial Behavior and Personality…1997

    Confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to test the factor structure of several versions of Levenson's (1973) locus of control scales. Two- and three-factor models based on all 24 of Levenson's items and on 20 of her items were tested. The 3-factor models provided a good fit. Models proposed by R. M. Shewchuk, G. A. Foelker Jr., and G. Niederehe (1990) and R. M. Shewchuk, G. A Foelker Jr., C. J. Camp, and F. Blanchard-Fields (1992) also provi…

  • George Martin Haslerud (1906-1990): Obituary

    William R Woodward, Victor A Benassi et al.ARTICLEAmerican Psychologist1993

  • George Martin Haslerud (1906–1990): Obituary

    William R Woodward, Victor A Benassi et al.ARTICLEAmerican Psychologist1993

  • Putting judgments of control into context: Contrast effects

    Susan E Newman, Victor A Benassi et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…1989

  • Is there a relation between locus of control orientation and depression?

    Victor A Benassi, Victor Benassi et al.ARTICLEJournal of Abnormal Psychology1988

  • Contingency judgments by depressed college students: Sadder but not always wiser

    Victor A Benassi, Victor Benassi et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…1985Cited by: 4References: 3

    We examined depressed and nondepressed college students' perceptions of control over outcomes in a task similar to the one introduced by Alloy and Abramson (1979, Experiment 2). In Experiment 1, when subjects completed a contingency learning task with no one else present, nondepressed subjects perceived themselves to have more control over frequently occurring response-independent outcomes than did depressed subjects, which replicated Alloy and A…

  • Occult Belief: Seeing Is Believing

    Victor A Benassi, Victor Benassi et al.ARTICLEJournal for the Scientific Study…1980Cited by: 5

    In Experiment 1 an experimental analog was developed to an apparent context effect, in which a performance that arouses little excitement when performed by a magician may induce occult beliefs when performed by an alleged psychic. An accomplice presented three common magician's tricks, which resembled performances, to six introductory psychology classes. In the two classes comprising the Psychic condition, the instructors skeptically introduced t…

  • Mind over matter: Perceived success at psychokinesis

    Victor A Benassi, Victor Benassi et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…1979

  • A survey of the teaching of behavior modification in colleges and universities

    Victor Benassi, Robert N Lanson et al.ARTICLEAmerican Psychologist1972