Brad Bushman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American psychologist
Date of Birth: 14-May-1960
Place of Birth: Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Profession: psychologist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Brad Bushman
- Brad J.
- Bushman (born May 14, 1960 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is the Margaret Hall and Robert Randal Rinehart Chair of Mass Communication Professor at Ohio State University.
- He also has an appointment in psychology.
- He has published extensively on the causes and consequences of human aggression.
- His work has questioned the utility of catharsis, and relates also to violent video game effects on aggression.
- Along with Roy Baumeister, his work suggests that it is narcissism, not low self-esteem, that causes people to act more aggressively after an insult.
- Bushman's research has been featured in Newsweek, on the CBS Evening News, on 20/20, and on National Public Radio.
- He has also been featured on Penn & Teller: Bullshit!.
- He earned his BS in psychology from Weber State College (now Weber State University) in 1984 and his Ph.D.
- from the University of Missouri in 1989 and holds three master's degrees (in psychology, statistics, and secondary education).
- Since 2005, Bushman has spent the summers as a professor of communication science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
- Prior to joining Ohio State University, Bushman was a professor at University of Michigan and at Iowa State University. He was awarded an Ig Nobel award in psychology in 2013 for his work about attractiveness of drunk people.
- In 2014 he received the Distinguished Lifetime Contribution to Media Psychology and Technology award from the American Psychological Association.In 2016, a paper co-authored by Bushman and his graduate student, Jodi Whitaker, was retracted by Communication Research.
- The retraction came after Patrick Markey, a Villanova University psychologist, pointed out irregularities in some of the paper's data.
- Bushman was cleared of wrongdoing by Ohio State, but agreed to the retraction anyway; Whitaker had her Ph.D.
- revoked.
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