Jacob A. Benfield
Assistant Professor of Psychology
jab908@psu.edu
215-881-7528
236G Woodland
Lab Webpage: http://www.personal.psu.edu/jab908/lab/home.htm
Educational Background
Ph.D. Colorado State University, Applied Social Psychology, 2008
M.S. Colorado State University, Applied Social Psychology, 2006
B.S. Colorado State University, Psychology and Sociology, 2003
Teaching interests/courses taught
Psych 221: Introduction to Social Psychology
Psych 301W: Basic Research Methods in Psychology
Psych 407: Advanced Research Methods in Psychology
Psych 424: Applied Social Psychology
Research interests and innovations
Social-Environmental Psychology, the role of privacy, territoriality, and/or noise on interpersonal relations, museum visitor studies and evaluation, Borderline Personality features and social behavior
Selected publications list
Nurse, G., Benfield, J.A., & Bell, P.A. (2011). New implications for wildlife loss evaluation: The role of subjective predictors. Human Dimensions of Wildlife, 16(2), 87-99.
Benfield, J.A., Bell, P.A., Troup, L.J., & Soderstrom, N.C. (2010). Does anthropogenic noise in national parks impair memory? Environment and Behavior, 42(5), 693-706.
Benfield, J.A., Bell, P.A., Troup, L.J., & Soderstrom, N.C. (2010). Aesthetic and affective effects of vocal and traffic noise on natural landscape assessment. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 30, 103-111.
Benfield, J. A., Jakubowski, R. D., Szlemko, W. J., Loomis, R. J., Winchester, J. & Pickering, R. (2008). An ‘honest visionary’ and ‘dishonest scallywag’: Blending fact, opinion, and interest into a front end evaluation. Visitor Studies, 11(1), 55-72.
Szlemko, W.J., Benfield, J.A., Bell, P.A., Deffenbacher, J.L., & Troup, L.J. (2008). Territorial markings as a predictor of driver aggression and road rage. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 38(6), 1664-1688.
Benfield, J.A., Szlemko, W.J., & Bell, P.A. (2007). Driver personality and anthropomorphic attributions of vehicle personality relate to reported aggressive driving tendencies. Personality and Individual Differences, 42(2), 249-258.
Benfield, J.A., & Szlemko, W.J. (2006). Internet based data collection: Promises and realities. Journal of Research Practice, 2(2), Article D1.
Selected awards, grants, patents, and other honors
Mentored ACURA Social Science Division Poster Winner (student: Brian Bonner), Penn State University-Abington 2011
