Benjamin Barton
Professor and Department Chair
Student Health Center 211
208-885-6515
Department of Psychology & Communication
University of Idaho MS 3043
Moscow, Idaho 83844-3043
Benjamin Barton teaches courses in human development, human factors design, and research methods. His research focuses on etiology and prevention of unintentional injuries.
- Ph.D, Lifespan Developmental Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2005
Courses
- PSYC 201: Survey of Contemporary Psychology
- PSYC 320: Social Psychology
- PSYC 419: Adult Development and Aging
- PSYC 420: Personality and Social Development
- PSYC 513: Advanced Research Methods
Dr. Barton's research focuses on unintentional injury etiology and prevention, with a focus on transportation safety. Dr. Barton has conducted research for more than two decades on topics such as pedestrian safety, firearms safety, quiet vehicle technology, automated vehicles, interface design in the nuclear industry, human error, and broader modeling of factors in the accident process.
- Human development
- Injury etiology
- Injury prevention
- Pugliese, B. J. & Barton, B. K. (in press). Slicing through the layers of pediatric unintentional injury with the Swiss cheese model. Journal of Pediatric Psychology.
- Pugliese, B. J., Barton, B. K., & Lopez, G. (2023). Predicting behavioral intentions for unsafe off-highway vehicle use. Journal of Safety Research, 84, 404-410.
- *Pugliese, B. J. & Barton, B. K. (2022). Falling for smartphones: A smartphone-centric data collection tool for distracted walking. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 90, 15-21.
- Barton, B. K. & *Pugliese, B. J. (2022). BASE: Pragmatic injury prevention for practitioners. American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine, 15598276221083566.
- Barton, B. K., *Davis, S. J., & *Pugliese, B. J. (2021). A risk appraisal framework for injury etiology. Health Promotion Practice, 15248399211018167.
*Graduate student
- Palouse Injury Research Laboratory
Traffic safety efforts at the local and state levels
- President’s Mid-Career Faculty Award - 2014
- Idaho Department of Health and Welfare: Increasing Addictions Training and Certification Amongst Undergraduate Students and Professionals With Master’s Level or Greater Certifications. $179,412
- Idaho National Laboratory: Thermal Power Dispatch ConOps Development and Experiment Support. $44,274
- Nissan Technical Center North America: The Influence of Automated Vehicle Sounds on Driver Stress and Negative Affect. $25,191
- Nissan Technical Center North America: Automation, Stress, and Negative Affect in Automobile Operation. $9,367
- Nissan Technical Center North America: Developmental influences on auditory detection of vehicles. $13,269