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| Mark J LandauSummaryAffiliation: University of Kansas Country: USA Publications
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Evidence that self-relevant motives and metaphoric framing interact to influence political and social attitudesMark J Landau
University of Kansas, Department of Psychology, Lawrence, KS 66045 7556, USA
Psychol Sci 20:1421-7. 2009....- A metaphor-enriched social cognitionMark J Landau
Department of Psychology, 1415 Jayhawk Boulevard, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045 7556, USA
Psychol Bull 136:1045-67. 2010..Finally, we mention specific benefits of a metaphor-enriched perspective for integrating and generating social cognitive research and for bridging social cognition with neighboring fields... - Defending a coherent autobiography: when past events appear incoherent, mortality salience prompts compensatory bolstering of the past's significance and the future's orderlinessMark J Landau
University of Kansas, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 35:1012-20. 2009..This research is the first to experimentally assess the role of existential concerns in people's motivation to defend the significance and structure of their temporal experience against threats to autobiographical coherence... - Wringing the perceptual rags: reply to IJzerman and Koole (2011)Mark J Landau
Department of Psychology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045 7556, USA
Psychol Bull 137:362-5. 2011.... - Motivated cultural worldview adherence and culturally loaded test performanceMark J Landau
Department of Psychology, University of Kansas, 1415 Jayhawk Boulevard, Lawrence, KS 66045 7556, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 35:442-53. 2009..Two studies provide support for these hypotheses. Implications for test validity are briefly discussed... - By the numbers: Structure-seeking individuals prefer quantitative over qualitative representations of personal value to compensate for the threat of unclear performance contingenciesZachary K Rothschild
University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 37:1508-21. 2011..Study 3 included a failure feedback condition to further isolate the role of epistemic motivation, as distinct from self-enhancement motivation, in driving the tendency to quantify personal value... 
The siren's call: terror management and the threat of men's sexual attraction to womenMark J Landau
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ85721 0068, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 90:129-46. 2006..In Study 5, MS and a corporeal lust prime increased men's tolerance of aggression toward women. Discussion focuses on mortality concerns and male sexual ambivalence...- Windows into nothingness: terror management, meaninglessness, and negative reactions to modern artMark J Landau
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, 85721, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 90:879-92. 2006..Discussion focused on the roles of meaninglessness, PNS, and art in terror management... - An existential function of enemyship: evidence that people attribute influence to personal and political enemies to compensate for threats to controlDaniel Sullivan
Department of Psychology, University of Kansas, 1415 Jayhawk Boulevard, Lawrence, KS 66045 7556, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 98:434-49. 2010.... 
Seeing I to I: a pathway to interpersonal connectednessElizabeth C Pinel
Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, 16802, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 90:243-57. 2006..The results highlight the importance of shared subjective experience and have implications for interpersonal and intergroup processes...- A dual-motive model of scapegoating: displacing blame to reduce guilt or increase controlZachary K Rothschild
Department of Psychology, University of Kansas, 1415 Jayhawk Boulevard, Room 426, Lawrence, KS 66045 7556, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 102:1148-63. 2012..Also, scapegoating in response to value threat versus control threat produced divergent, theoretically specified effects on self-perceptions and behavioral intentions (Study 3)... - Competitive victimhood as a response to accusations of ingroup harm doingDaniel Sullivan
Department of Psychology, University of Kansas, 1415 Jayhawk Boulevard, Room 426, Lawrence, KS 66045 7556, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 102:778-95. 2012..Exposure to a competitive victimhood claim on behalf of one's ingroup reduced stigma reversal and collective guilt after an accusation of ingroup harm doing (Study 5)... - Play it safe or go for the gold? A terror management perspective on self-enhancement and self-protective motives in risky decision makingMark J Landau
University of Arizona, Department of Psychology, Tucson 85721 0068, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 32:1633-45. 2006..Implications for understanding self-esteem, TMT, and risky decision making are briefly discussed... - Deliver us from evil: the effects of mortality salience and reminders of 9/11 on support for President George W. BushMark J Landau
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 0068, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 30:1136-50. 2004..Discussion focused on the role of terror management processes in allegiance to charismatic leaders and political decision making... - Ageism and death: effects of mortality salience and perceived similarity to elders on reactions to elderly peopleAndy Martens
University of Arizona, Department of Psychology, Tucson, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 30:1524-36. 2004..Discussion addresses distinguishing ageism from other forms of prejudice, as well as possibilities for reducing ageism... - Collectivism and the meaning of sufferingDaniel Sullivan
Department of Psychology, University of Kansas, 1415 Jayhawk Boulevard Room 426, Lawrence, KS 66045 7556, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 103:1023-39. 2012..Study 5 examined behavioral intentions, demonstrating that parents primed with a collectivist self-construal interpreted children's suffering more repressively and showed greater support for corporal punishment of children... - 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...