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| T PyszczynskiSummaryAffiliation: University of Colorado Country: USA Publications
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A dual-process model of defense against conscious and unconscious death-related thoughts: an extension of terror management theoryT Pyszczynski
Department of Psychology, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs 80933 7150, USA
Psychol Rev 106:835-45. 1999..Experimental evidence for this analysis is presented...
Suppression, accessibility of death-related thoughts, and cultural worldview defense: exploring the psychodynamics of terror managementJ Arndt
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 73:5-18. 1997..Implications of these findings for understanding both terror management processes and psychological defense in general are discussed...
Stereotypes and terror management: evidence that mortality salience enhances stereotypic thinking and preferencesJ Schimel
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 77:905-26. 1999..Study 5 showed that, among participants high in need for closure, mortality salience led to decreased liking for a stereotype-inconsistent gay man...
Death, sex, love, and neuroticism: why is sex such a problem?J L Goldenberg
Department of Psychology, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs 80933 7150, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 77:1173-87. 1999..These findings provide insight into why people high in neuroticism have conflicting thoughts about sexuality and why sexuality is so often regulated and romanticized...
The body as a source of self-esteem: the effect of mortality salience on identification with one's body, interest in sex, and appearance monitoringJ L Goldenberg
Department of Psychology, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 79:118-30. 2000..These findings provide insight into why people often go to extreme lengths to meet cultural standards for the body and its appearance...
Being accepted for who we are: evidence that social validation of the intrinsic self reduces general defensivenessJ Schimel
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 80:35-52. 2001..In all 3 studies, similar reductions in defensiveness were not found when liking was based on achievements. Discussion focuses on implications for understanding the functional value of different bases of self-worth...
I am not an animal: mortality salience, disgust, and the denial of human creaturelinessJ L Goldenberg
Department of Psychology, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA
J Exp Psychol Gen 130:427-35. 2001..The implications of these results for understanding why humans are so invested in beautifying their bodies and denying creaturely aspects of themselves are discussed...
