A5063621558- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Social Representations and Identity
- Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Media Influence and Health
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Leadership, Courage, and Heroism Studies
- Gothic Literature and Media Analysis
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Agriculture and Farm Safety
- Ethics in Business and Education
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Religion and Society Interactions
- Film in Education and Therapy
- Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Risk Perception and Management
University of Arizona
2016-2025
Emory University
2022
University of Kansas
1981-2020
Cleveland State University
2020
Universitat de Barcelona
2019
Carnegie Mellon University
2019
Environmental Education Exchange
2019
Zhejiang University
2019
Duke University
2014
Motorola (United States)
1977-1981
Perceiving oneself as having powerful enemies, although superficially disagreeable, may serve an important psychological function. On the basis of E. Becker's (1969) existential theorizing, authors argue that people attribute exaggerated influence to enemies a means compensating for perceptions reduced control over their environment. In Study 1, individuals dispositionally low in perceived responded reminder external hazards by attributing more personal enemy. 2, situational threat hazard...
Abstract In this article, we approach the relationship between neoliberalism and psychological science from theoretical perspective of cultural psychology. first section, trace how engagement with neoliberal systems results in characteristic tendencies—including a radical abstraction self social material context, an entrepreneurial understanding as ongoing development project, imperative for personal growth fulfillment, emphasis on affect management self‐regulation—that increasingly...
The authors present a model that specifies 2 psychological motives underlying scapegoating, defined as attributing inordinate blame for negative outcome to target individual or group, (a) maintaining perceived personal moral value by minimizing feelings of guilt over one's responsibility and (b) control obtaining clear explanation otherwise seems inexplicable. Three studies supported hypotheses derived from this dual-motive model. Framing (environmental destruction climate change) caused own...
Research on terror-management theory has shown that after mortality salience (MS) people attempt to live up cultural values. But cultures often value very different and sometimes even contradictory standards, leading difficulties in predicting behavior as a consequence of needs. The authors report 4 studies demonstrate the effect MS people's social judgments depends norms. In Study 1, making salient opposite norms (prosocial vs. proself) led reactions consistent with activated following...
We propose that metaphor is a mechanism by which motivational states in one conceptual domain can influence attitudes superficially unrelated domain. Two studies tested whether activating motives related to the self-concept influences toward social topics when topics' metaphoric association made salient through linguistic framing. In Study 1, heightened motivation protect one's own body from contamination led harsher immigrants entering United States country was framed body-metaphoric,...
Accusations of unjust harm doing by the ingroup threaten group's moral identity. One strategy for restoring identity after such a threat is competitive victimhood: claiming has suffered compared with harmed outgroup. Men accused harming women were more likely to claim that men are discriminated against (Study 1), and showed same effect when discriminating 3). Undergraduates engaged in victimhood university staff their group was 2). Study 4 accusations on among high-status members mediated...
Abstract Attachment theory proposes that people form strong social ties because certain relationships provide feelings of security and support. Traditionally, theorists researchers have assumed this process is innate evolved, only human targets are capable meeting a person's needs for security. Recent research challenges assumption by demonstrating an array targets, such as places pets, can also satisfy security, particularly under conditions threatened or absent connection to other people....
Despite striking parallels between their philosophies and artistic work, there have been no prior dedicated studies of the reinforcing ideas Siegfried Kracauer Andrei Tarkovsky. I contend with other interpreters that Kracauer’s philosophy film is best understood as a form revelationism, strong sociological ontological theses about nature modern psychological life medium specificity film. Essentially, felt certain films which adhere to what he called “truly cinematic” content by depicting...
Drawing on terror management theory, we propose that maintaining a coherent autobiography protects the individual from mortality concerns by imbuing experience over time with significance and order. Two studies test whether salience combined threat to autobiographical coherence (induced an alphabetical organization of past events) prompts compensatory bolstering orderliness temporal experience. In Study 1, whereas exclusion-primed participants led organize events alphabetically perceived...
Experimental existential psychology (XXP) empirically investigates how people's motives for meaning and personal value influence their lives, symbolic self-awareness undergirds these experienced threats to fulfillment. The authors attempt synthesize the insights that have already accumulated from XXP, simultaneously point a new direction this field. Researchers debated whether there is “core threat” in human experience, but propose more fruitful research examine simultaneous independence...
Abstract This research examined when, and for whom, American collective nostalgia can relieve feelings of guilt. In the Pilot Study, path analyses revealed that national glorification is associated with nostalgia, lower Our experimental studies test role these variables in determining responses to elevated salience past ingroup harm doing. Collective was guilt especially after reminders America's doing Study 1 . 2 we predicted showed would evoke spontaneous participants high glorification....
Prior terror management research shows that mortality salience (MS) motivates both self-esteem striving and worldview bolstering. The present examined these processes in the context of dating preferences. It was hypothesized short-term romantic contexts, MS-induced interest a physically attractive other, whereas long-term motives for validation heighten same-religion other. Study 1 showed context, MS increased preference an but religiously dissimilar person, similar, less person. 2 clarified...