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Mother's milk: an existential perspective on negative reactions to breast-feedingCathy R Cox
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 33:110-22. 2007..e., creatureliness) led to increased negativity toward a magazine cover depicting a woman breast-feeding her child (Study 4). Implications of this research are discussed...- Interpersonal politics: the role of terror management and attachment processes in shaping political preferencesDavid R Weise
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, CO, USA
Psychol Sci 19:448-55. 2008..We discuss the interaction of TMT processes and individual differences in attachment in shaping political preferences... - Bronze is beautiful but pale can be pretty: the effects of appearance standards and mortality salience on sun-tanning outcomesCathy R Cox
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
Health Psychol 28:746-52. 2009..Using the terror management health model (J. L. Goldenberg & J. Arndt, 2008), the authors examined tanning outcomes as a function of priming tanning-relevant standards for attractiveness after reminders of death... - Terror management and adults' attachment to their parents: the safe haven remainsCathy R Cox
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 94:696-717. 2008..Study 6 demonstrated that, after MS, insecure individuals were more likely to rely on relationships with their parents, whereas secure individuals were more likely to rely on relationships with romantic partners... - Blowing in the (social) wind: implications of extrinsic esteem contingencies for terror management and healthJamie Arndt
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 96:1191-205. 2009..Together, these studies demonstrate that reminders of death interact with prevalent social standards to influence everyday health decisions... - Exploring the existential function of religion: the effect of religious fundamentalism and mortality salience on faith-based medical refusalsMatthew Vess
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 97:334-50. 2009..The existential importance of religious faith and the health-relevant implications of these findings are discussed... - The psychosocial effect of thoughts of personal mortality on cardiac risk assessmentJamie Arndt
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
Med Decis Making 29:175-81. 2009..The authors sought to examine whether provoking thoughts of mortality among medical students would engender more cautious cardiac risk assessments for a hypothetical Christian than for a Muslim patient... - Cancer and the threat of death: the cognitive dynamics of death-thought suppression and its impact on behavioral health intentionsJamie Arndt
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 92:12-29. 2007..Theoretical and practical implications for understanding terror management, priming and suppression, and responses to cancer are discussed... - Does rurality affect quality of life following treatment for breast cancer?Stephanie A Reid-Arndt
Department of Health Psychology, School of Health Professions, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65212, USA
J Rural Health 26:402-5. 2010..The present research examined the extent to which rural residence and social support seeking are associated with quality of life (QOL) among breast cancer patients following chemotherapy... - Tai Chi effects on neuropsychological, emotional, and physical functioning following cancer treatment: a pilot studyStephanie A Reid-Arndt
Department of Health Psychology, School of Health Professions, University of Missouri, One Hospital Drive, DC116 88, Columbia, MO 65212, USA
Complement Ther Clin Pract 18:26-30. 2012..To examine the effects of a 10-week Tai Chi (TC) program on neuropsychological, psychological, and physical health of female cancer survivors... - Age-related differences in responses to thoughts of one's own death: mortality salience and judgments of moral transgressionsMolly Maxfield
Department of Psychology, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO 80933 4150, USA
Psychol Aging 22:341-53. 2007..Explanations for this developmental shift in responses to reminders of death are discussed... - Older adults as adaptive decision makers: evidence from the Iowa Gambling TaskStacey Wood
Department of Psychology, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO, USA
Psychol Aging 20:220-5. 2005..For younger adults, that strength was learning and memory. For older adults, that strength was an accurate representation of wins and losses (valence)... - Gender-typical responses to sexual and emotional infidelity as a function of mortality salience induced self-esteem strivingJamie L Goldenberg
Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis 95616 8686, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 29:1585-95. 2003..The authors discuss the implications for evolutionary and self-esteem-based accounts of jealousy as well as possible integration of these perspectives... - Understanding human ambivalence about sex: the effects of stripping sex of meaningJamie L Goldenberg
Department of Psychology, Boise State University, Boise, ID 83725 1715, USA
J Sex Res 39:310-20. 2002..In each study, priming thoughts about how humans are distinct from animals eliminated the association between sex and death...