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Courses
- SPCSocial Psychology and the Cinema
- ASPAdvanced Social Psychology
Grants
- Investigating Dementia Worry and Its Impact on Older Adults
Principal Investigator (PI)
2016
$180.6K
- Religious and Scientific Paths to Immortality: A Clash of Two Cultures?
Principal Investigator (PI)
2013
$146.4K
- Collaborative Research: Theoretical Extensions to Advance Understanding of the Impact of the Awareness of Death
Principal Investigator (PI)
2010
$125.0K
- Defensive Responses to Thoughts of Death in Older Adults
Principal Investigator (PI)
2006
$404.6K
News
- ABOR Confirms Five New UArizona Regents Professors
2020
- Fear of Death Affects Human Attitudes Toward Animal Life
2017
- Study Links Athletic Performance to Mortality
2016
- Death and Dying in the Movies
2013
- College of Science Announces 2010 Galileo Circle Fellows
2010
- Thoughts of Death Lower Support For Watchdog Press
2010
- Studying the Relationship Between Fear of Death, Political Preferences
2004
- UA College of Humanities and Arizona Theatre Company Invite You To "By Design" To Explore Shakespeare's "As You Like It"
2000
Publications (160)
Recent
- Will Life Extension Affect Our Social Judgments? Evidence That the Possibility of Indefinite Life Extension Increases Harshness Toward Social Transgressors
2021
- The role of mortality concerns in separation and connection effects: comment on Lee and Schwarz
2021
- Preparation for Future Care Needs in Middle-Aged and Older Adults: What Promotes Feeling of Preparedness?
2020
- Loss and lastingness? Further exploring the relationship between the death of a close other, belief in an everlasting soul, and terror management processes
2020
- Searching for God: Illness-Related Mortality Threats and Religious Search Volume in Google in 16 Nations
2018
- An existential perspective on the psychological function of shamans
2018
- Are you smarter than a cetacean? Investigating the relationship between reminders of death and concerns about human intelligence
2017
- The evil animal: A terror management perspective on killing animals
2017
- Mortality salience, religiosity, and indefinite life extension
2017
- Mortality salience and correspondence bias in younger and older adults
2017
- Evidence of higher ingroup identity in young adults who have experienced the death of a close other: an extension of terror management theory
2017
- Gender differences in support for life extension tecnhologies
2017
- Using positive emotion eliciting activities to cope with sadness:Perception and reality
2017
- Digital Immortality: Terror Management Online via Facebook
2017
- The evil animal: A terror management theory perspective on the human tendency to kill animals.
2016
- He dies, he scores: Evidence that reminders of of death motivate improved performance in basketball
2016
- Managing the death of close others: Evidence of higher ingroup identity in young adults who have experienced the death of a close other.
2016
- Thirty Years of Terror Management Theory: Genesis to Revelations
2015
- The Psychological Worm at the Core of Mass Shootings
2015
- Broadening the definition of resilience and reappraising the use of appetitive motivation
2015
- Remembering the Initial Realization of One's Own Mortality
2014
- Dealing with death in later life: Terorr management theory perspectives on aging.
2014
- Increases in generative concern among older adults following reminders of mortality
2014
- Terror management theory and research: How the desire for death transcendence drives our strivings for meaning and significance
2014
- Evidence for a role of death thought in American attitudes toward symbols of Islam
2013
- Generosity, greed, norms, and death - Differential effects of mortality salience on charitable behavior
2013
- Exploring the Effects of the Naturalistic Fallacy: Evidence That Genetic Explanations Increase the Acceptability of Killing and Male Promiscuity
2012
- The moderating role of executive functioning in older adults' responses to a reminder of mortality
2012
- Terror management and attitudes toward immigrants : Differential effects of mortality salience for low and high right-wing authoritarians
2012
- Monstrous children as harbingers of mortality: A psychological analysis of Doris Lessing's the fifth child
2011
- Finding everland: Flight fantasies and the desire to transcend mortality
2011
- Of trophies and pillars: Exploring the terror management functions of short-term and long-term relationship partners
2010
- The effects of mortality salience on political preferences: The roles of charisma and political orientation
2010
- Mortality salience effects on the life expectancy estimates of older adults as a function of neuroticism
2010
- A terror management analysis of the psychological functions of religion
2010
- Self-esteem and autonomic physiology: Self-esteem levels predict cardiac vagal tone
2010
- Toward understanding the fame game: The effect of mortality salience on the appeal of fame
2010
- Disdain for anxious individuals as a function of mortality salience
2010
- Smearing the opposition: Implicit and explicit stigmatization of the 2008 U.S. presidential candidates and the current U.S. President
2010
- Defending a coherent autobiography: When past events appear incoherent, mortality salience prompts compensatory bolstering of the past's significance and the future's orderliness
2009
- Toward a new understanding of two films from the dark side: Utilizing terror management theory to analyze Rosemary's Baby and Straw Dogs
2009
- Pearls in the desert: Death reminders provoke immediate derogation of extrinsic goals, but delayed inflation
2009
- Motivated cultural worldview adherence and culturally loaded test performance
2009
- Evidence that self-relevant motives and metaphoric framing interact to influence political and social attitudes
2009
- The protective identity: Evidence that mortality salience heightens the clarity and coherence of the self-concept
2009
- Of mice and men, and objectified women: A terror management account of infrahumanization
2009
- Managing terror when self-worth and worldviews collide: Evidence that mortality salience increases reluctance to self-enhance beyond authorities
2009
- Focus Theory of Normative Conduct and Terror-Management Theory: The Interactive Impact of Mortality Salience and Norm Salience on Social Judgment
2008
- Self-esteem and autonomic physiology: Parallels between self-esteem and cardiac vagal tone as buffers of threat
2008
- Terror Management and Adults' Attachment to Their Parents: The Safe Haven Remains
2008
- Interpersonal politics: The role of terror management and attachment processes in shaping political preferences: Research article
2008
- The path or the goal? Decision vs. information focus in biased information seeking after preliminary decisions
2008
- Age-Related Differences in Responses to Thoughts of One's Own Death: Mortality Salience and Judgments of Moral Transgressions
2007
- Terror mismanagement: Evidence that mortality salience exacerbates phobic and compulsive behaviors
2007
- Killing begets killing: Evidence from a bug-killing paradigm that initial killing fuels subsequent killing
2007
- Fatal distraction: The impact of mortality salience on dissociative responses to 9/11 and subsequent anxiety sensitivity
2006
- On the Unique Psychological Import of the Human Awareness of Mortality: Theme and Variations
2006
- Souls do not live by cognitive inclinations alone, but by the desire to exist beyond death as well
2006
- Existential underpinnings of approach and avoidance of the physical body
2006
- Considering the roles of affect and culture in the enactment and enjoyment of cruelty
2006
- Introducing science to the psychology of the soul: Experimental existential psychology
2006
- Windows into nothingness: Terror management, meaninglessness, and negative reactions to modern art
2006
- Mortality salience, martyrdom, and military might: the great satan versus the axis of evil.
2006
- The Siren's call: Terror management and the threat of men's sexual attraction to women
2006
- Play it safe or go for the gold? A terror management perspective on self-enhancement and self-protective motives in risky decision making
2006
- Combating stereotype threat: The effect of self-affirmation on women's intellectual performance
2006
- Illuminating the dark side of creative expression: Assimilation needs and the consequences of creative action following mortality salience
2005
- A terror management perspective on ageism
2005
- American roulette: The effect of reminders of death on support for George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential election
2005
- The revealing science of social psychology
2005
- Currencies as cultural symbols - An existential psychological perspective on reactions of Germans toward the Euro
2005
- Applying terror management theory to performance: Can reminding individuals of their mortality increase strength output?
2005
- Why do people need self-esteem? A theoretical and empirical review
2004
- Ageism and death: Effects of mortality salience and perceived similarity to elders on reactions to elderly people
2004
- Terror management and political attitudes: The influence of mortality salience on Germans' defence of the German reunification
2004
- Deliver us from evil: The effects of mortality salience and reminders of 9/11 on support for President George W. Bush
2004
- The motivational underpinnings of religion
2004
- A function of form: Terror management and structuring the social world
2004
- Converging toward an integrated theory of self-esteem: Reply to Crocker and Nuer (2004), Ryan and Deci (2004), and Leary (2004)
2004
- Fatal attraction: The effects of mortality salience on evaluations of charismatic, task-oriented, and relationship-oriented leaders
2004
- Gender-Typical Responses to Sexual and Emotional Infidelity as a Function of Mortality Salience Induced Self-Esteem Striving
2003
- Fear of death and human destructiveness
2003
- Psychological Defense in Anticipation of Anxiety: Eliminating the Potential for Anxiety Eliminates the Effect of Mortality Salience on Worldview Defense
2003
- Evidence that projection of a feared trait can serve a defensive function
2003
- Connecting terror management and dissonance theory: Evidence that mortality salience increases the preference for supporting information after decisions
2003
- Psychological Motives and Political Orientation - The Left, the Right, and the Rigid: Comment on Jost et al. (2003)
2003
- To belong or not to belong, that is the question: Terror management and identification with gender and ethnicity
2002
- The intrinsic self and defensiveness: Evidence that activating the intrinsic self reduces self-handicapping and conformity
2002
- The scrooge effect: Evidence that mortality salience increases prosocial attitudes and behavior
2002
- Mortality salience and the spreading activation of worldview-relevant constructs: Exploring the cognitive architecture of terror management
2002
- Understanding human ambivalence about sex: The effects of stripping sex of meaning
2002
- Sympathy for the devil: Evidence that reminding Whites of their mortality promotes more favorable reactions to White racists
2001
- I am not an animal: Mortality salience, disgust, and the denial of human creatureliness
2001
- Traces of terror: Subliminal death primes and facial electromyographic indices of affect
2001
- Clarifying the Function of Mortality Salience-Induced Worldview Defense: Renewed Suppression or Reduced Accessibility of Death-Related Thoughts?
2001
- Being accepted for who we are: evidence that social validation of the intrinsic self reduces general defensiveness
2001
- Proximal and distal defenses in response to reminders of one's mortality: Evidence of a temporal sequence
2000
- Running from the shadow: Psychological distancing from others to deny characteristics people fear in themselves
2000
- The body as a source of self-esteem: The effect of mortality salience on identification with one's body, interest in sex, and appearance monitoring
2000
- Pride and prejudice: Fear of death and social behavior
2000
- Terror management and the vicissitudes of sports fan affiliation: The effects of mortality salience on optimism and fan identification
2000
- Fleeing the body: A terror management perspective on the problem of human corporeality
2000
- Proximal and distal defense: A new perspective on unconscious motivation
2000
- The effects of a self-esteem boost and mortality salience on responses to boost relevant and irrelevant worldview threats
1999
- A hot new way to measure aggression: Hot sauce allocation
1999
- Creativity and terror management: Evidence that creative activity increases guilt and social projection following mortality salience
1999
- Death, sex, love, and neuroticism: Why is sex such a problem?
1999
- The Appeal of Tragedy: A Terror Management Perspective
1999
- Stereotypes and terror management: Evidence that mortality salience enhances stereotypic thinking and preferences
1999
- Terror management and self-awareness: Evidence that mortality salience provokes avoidance of the self-focused state
1998
- Tales from the crypt: On the role of death in life
1998
- Terror Management and Aggression: Evidence That Mortality Salience Motivates Aggression Against Worldview-Threatening Others
1998
- Terror Management and Meaning: Evidence That the Opportunity to Defend the Worldview in Response to Mortality Salience Increases the Meaningfulness of Life in the Mildly Depressed
1998
- Suppression, Accessibility of Death-Related Thoughts, and Cultural Worldview Defense: Exploring the Psychodynamics of Terror Management
1997
- Terror Management Theory of Self-Esteem and Cultural Worldviews: Empirical Assessments and Conceptual Refinements
1997
- Terror management and cognitive-experiential self-theory: Evidence that terror management occurs in the experiential system
1997
- Terror Management Theory and Self-Esteem: Evidence That Increased Self-Esteem Reduces Mortality Salience Effects
1997
- Beliefs about self and about gender groups: Interactive effects on the spatial performance of women
1997
- Perceived consensus, uniqueness, and terror management: Compensatory responses to threats to inclusion and distinctiveness following mortality salience
1997
- Mild depression, mortality salience, and defense of the worldview: Evidence of intensified terror management in the mildly depressed
1996
- The effects of mortality salience on intergroup bias between minimal groups
1996
- Whistling in the Dark: Exaggerated Consensus Estimates in Response to Incidental Reminders of Mortality
1996
- Further progress in understanding the effects of derogatory ethnic labels: The role of preexisting attitudes toward the targeted group
1996
- Evidence That the Production of Aversive Consequences Is Not Necessary to Create Cognitive Dissonance
1996
- Trivialization: The Forgotten Mode of Dissonance Reduction
1995
- Role of Consciousness and Accessibility of Death-Related Thoughts in Mortality Salience Effects
1994
- Effects of Self-Esteem on Vulnerability-Denying Defensive Distortions: Further Evidence of an Anxiety-Buffering Function of Self-Esteem
1993
- Emotional Expression and the Reduction of Motivated Cognitive Bias: Evidence From Cognitive Dissonance and Distancing From Victims' Paradigms
1993
- Why Do People Need Self-Esteem? Converging Evidence That Self-Esteem Serves an Anxiety-Buffering Function
1992
- Depression, self-focused attention, and the self-serving attributional bias
1992
- Terror Management and Tolerance: Does Mortality Salience Always Intensify Negative Reactions to Others Who Threaten One's Worldview?
1992
- Examining the World of the Depressed: Do Depressed People Prefer Others Who Are Depressed?
1991
- On the relationship between self-focused attention and psychological disorder: A critical reappraisal
1991
- A Terror Management Theory of Social Behavior: The Psychological Functions of Self-Esteem and Cultural Worldviews
1991
- Evidence of Codependency in Women With an Alcoholic Parent: Helping Out Mr. Wrong
1991
- Evidence for Terror Management Theory II: The Effects of Mortality Salience on Reactions to Those Who Threaten or Bolster the Cultural Worldview
1990
- Depression, Self-Focused Attention, and the Negative Memory Bias
1989
- Evidence For Terror Management Theory: I. The Effects of Mortality Salience on Reactions to Those Who Violate or Uphold Cultural Values
1989
- The Psychologist and the Psychiatrist as Expert Witnesses: Perceived Credibility and Influence
1988
- Depression and interpersonal attraction: the role of perceived similarity
1988
- A Reaction to Greenwald, Pratkanis, Leippe, and Baumgardner (1986): Under What Conditions Does Research Obstruct Theory Progress?
1988
- Depression, Self-Focused Attention, and Expectancies for Positive and Negative Future Life Events for Self and Others
1987
- Toward an Integration of Cognitive and Motivational Perspectives on Social Inference: A Biased Hypothesis-Testing Model
1987
- Self-Regulatory Perseveration and the Depressive Self-Focusing Style: A Self-Awareness Theory of Reactive Depression
1987
- Evidence for a depressive self-focusing style
1986
- Persistent High Self-Focus After Failure and Low Self-Focus After Success. The Depressive Self-Focusing Style
1986
- Compensatory Self-Inflation. A Response to the Threat to Self-Regard of Public Failure
1985
- Social anxiety and anticipation of future interaction as determinants of the favorability of self-presentation
1985
- Social comparison after success and failure: Biased search for information consistent with a self-serving conclusion
1985
- The effect of an overheard ethnic slur on evaluations of the target: How to spread a social disease
1985
- Depression and Preference for Self-Focusing Stimuli After Success and Failure
1985
- Effect of extrinsic incentives on use of test anxiety as an anticipatory attributional defense: Playing it cool when the stakes are high
1984
- Determinants of reduction in intended effort as a strategy for coping with anticipated failure
1983
- Effects of Transcendental Meditation versus resting on physiological and subjective arousal
1983
- Perceived difficulty, energization, and the magnitude of goal valence
1983
- The self-serving attributional bias: Beyond self-presentation
1982
- Depression and self-focused attention
1981
- Role of disconfirmed expectancies in the instigation of attributional processing
1981