Ben Porter

Assistant Professor
Psychology

Research Interests

My research focuses on using publicly available datasets to answer pressing questions about the health of military service members and veterans. I am interested broadly in this population, having studies a gamut of outcomes including women’s health, mental health, and physical health. I earned a PhD in Social Psychology, but my current research more closely resembles Public Health and Clinical Psychology work. I am also interested in promoting the use of publicly available data in Clinical Psychology and in applying advanced statistical analyses to large datasets.

Porter, B., Olson, E. A., & Merideth, K. (2025). Contextual predictors of belongingness in military and veteran students on university campuses. Journal of American College Health, 73, 3913-3919. https://doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2025.2455652   

Dean, M. C., Utley, J. W., Hooper, A. E., Bogle, G., & Porter, B (2025). Comparing the Heaven’s Gate “exit statements” to traditional suicide notes. Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior, 55, e70059. https://doi.org/10.1111/sltb.70059

Williams, J., Porter, B., & Dozier, M. E., (2025). Neighborhood Experience and Hoarding Disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders, 388, 119550. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2025.119550

Porter, B. (2024). On the utility of using the All of Us as a resource to study military service members and veterans. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 31, 2958-2961. https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocae153

Porter, B., Dozier, M. E., Seelig, A. D., Zhu, Y., Patoilo, M. S., Boyko, E. J., & Rull, R. P. (2024). Posttraumatic stress disorder, Veteran Health Administration use, and care seeking among post 9/11 US veterans. Journal of Traumatic Stress 37, 460-470. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts.23019

Areas of Expertise

Advanced Modeling
Generalist
Military & Veteran Health
Psychological Sciences
Psychometrics
Publicly Available Data

Education

B.S. in Psychology, University of Georgia, 2008
Ph.D. in Social Psychology, University of Houston, 2013
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