Sheldon Solomon

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Sheldon Solomon

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#3523

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Social Psychology

#295

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#308

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PhD Social Psychology University of Kansas

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The Causes and Consequences of a Need for Self-Esteem: A Terror Management Theory (1986) (1922)
Evidence for terror management theory II: The effects of mortality salience on reactions to those who threaten or bolster the cultural worldview. (1990) (1406)
Terror Management Theory of Self-Esteem and Cultural Worldviews: Empirical Assessments and Conceptual Refinements (1997) (1321)
Evidence for terror management theory: I. The effects of mortality salience on reactions to those who violate or uphold cultural values. (1989) (1268)
Why do people need self-esteem? A theoretical and empirical review. (2004) (1209)
A Terror Management Theory of Social Behavior: The Psychological Functions of Self-Esteem and Cultural Worldviews (1991) (1208)
A dual-process model of defense against conscious and unconscious death-related thoughts: an extension of terror management theory. (1999) (1132)
Role of consciousness and accessibility of death-related thoughts in mortality salience effects. (1994) (866)
Why do people need self-esteem? Converging evidence that self-esteem serves an anxiety-buffering function. (1992) (790)
Terror management theory and self-esteem: evidence that increased self-esteem reduces mortality salience effects. (1997) (686)
Deliver us from Evil: The Effects of Mortality Salience and Reminders of 9/11 on Support for President George W. Bush (2004) (615)
Terror management and aggression: evidence that mortality salience motivates aggression against worldview-threatening others. (1998) (581)
Terror management and tolerance: does mortality salience always intensify negative reactions to others who threaten one's worldview? (1992) (562)
In the Wake of 9-11: The Psychology of Terror (2003) (509)
Why Do We Need What We Need? A Terror Management Perspective on the Roots of Human Social Motivation (1997) (457)
Suppression, accessibility of death-related thoughts, and cultural worldview defense: exploring the psychodynamics of terror management. (1997) (443)
A Terror Management Analysis of the Psychological Functions of Religion (2010) (412)
The Urge to Splurge: A Terror Management Account of Materialism and Consumer Behavior (2004) (409)
Terror management theory of self-esteem. (1991) (400)
Mortality Salience, Martyrdom, and Military Might: The Great Satan Versus the Axis of Evil (2006) (395)
The Cultural Animal: Twenty Years of Terror Management Theory and Research. (2004) (351)
Stereotypes and terror management: evidence that mortality salience enhances stereotypic thinking and preferences. (1999) (337)
Evidence of a Terror Management Function of Cultural Icons: The Effects of Mortality Salience on the Inappropriate Use of Cherished Cultural Symbols (1995) (323)
Subliminal Exposure to Death-Related Stimuli Increases Defense of the Cultural Worldview (1997) (307)
I am not an animal: mortality salience, disgust, and the denial of human creatureliness. (2001) (307)
Thirty Years of Terror Management Theory: From Genesis to Revelation (2015) (297)
A function of form: terror management and structuring the social world. (2004) (285)
Proximal and Distal Defenses in Response to Reminders of One’s Mortality: Evidence of a Temporal Sequence (2000) (271)
A hot new way to measure aggression: Hot sauce allocation (1999) (251)
Effects of Self-Esteem on Vulnerability-Denying Defensive Distortions: Further Evidence of an Anxiety-Buffering Function of Self-Esteem (1993) (251)
Fleeing the Body: A Terror Management Perspective on the Problem of Human Corporeality (2000) (238)
Perceived difficulty, energization, and the magnitude of goal valence ☆ (1983) (224)
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) (221)
Windows into nothingness: terror management, meaninglessness, and negative reactions to modern art. (2006) (216)
Whistling in the Dark: Exaggerated Consensus Estimates in Response to Incidental Reminders of Mortality (1996) (216)
To belong or not to belong, that is the question: terror management and identification with gender and ethnicity. (2002) (214)
Death, sex, love, and neuroticism: why is sex such a problem? (1999) (202)
The effects of mortality salience on intergroup bias between minimal groups (1996) (189)
Testing alternative explanations for mortality salience effects: Terror management, value accessibility, or worrisome thoughts? (1995) (184)
The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life (2015) (183)
The self-serving attributional bias: Beyond self-presentation (1982) (177)
Psychological Defense in Anticipation of Anxiety (2003) (172)
Age-related differences in responses to thoughts of one's own death: mortality salience and judgments of moral transgressions. (2007) (163)
Terror management and cognitive-experiential self-theory: evidence that terror management occurs in the experiential system. (1997) (163)
Terror Management Theory and the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020) (153)
Fatal Attraction (2004) (149)
Terror Mismanagement: Evidence That Mortality Salience Exacerbates Phobic and Compulsive Behaviors (2007) (141)
Terror Management and Self-Awareness: Evidence that Mortality Salience Provokes Avoidance of the Self-Focused State (1998) (135)
Creativity and terror management: Evidence that creative activity increases guilt and social projection following mortality salience (1999) (134)
Sympathy for the Devil: Evidence That Reminding Whites of Their Mortality Promotes More Favorable Reactions to White Racists (2001) (134)
American Roulette: The Effect of Reminders of Death on Support for George W. Bush in the 2004 Presidential Election (2005) (134)
Terror management and adults' attachment to their parents: the safe haven remains. (2008) (131)
Understanding human ambivalence about sex: The effects of stripping sex of meaning (2002) (125)
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) (123)
On the Unique Psychological Import of the Human Awareness of Mortality: Theme and Variations (2006) (123)
Pride and Prejudice (2000) (120)
Clarifying the Function of Mortality Salience-Induced Worldview Defense: Renewed Suppression or Reduced Accessibility of Death-Related Thoughts? (2001) (113)
The siren's call: terror management and the threat of men's sexual attraction to women. (2006) (105)
Perceived Consensus, Uniqueness, and Terror Management: Compensatory Responses to Threats to Inclusion and Distinctiveness Following Mortality Salience (1997) (97)
Interpersonal Politics (2008) (93)
Effects of paced respiration and expectations on physiological and psychological responses to threat. (1979) (89)
Measuring Dispositional and Situational Attributions (1978) (79)
Experimental Existential Psychology (2010) (78)
The Cultural Animal (2019) (75)
Emotional expression and the reduction of motivated cognitive bias: evidence from cognitive dissonance and distancing from victims' paradigms. (1993) (75)
Mild Depression, Mortality Salience and Defense of the Worldview Evidence of Intensified Terror Management in the Mildly Depressed (1996) (73)
Report of the Lancet Commission on the Value of Death: bringing death back into life (2022) (69)
Toward Understanding the Fame Game: The Effect of Mortality Salience on the Appeal of Fame (2010) (68)
A terror management analysis of self-awareness and anxiety: The hierarchy of terror (1990) (68)
Tales from the crypt: On the role of death in life (1998) (67)
On the Compatibility of Terror Management Theory and Perspectives on Human Evolution (2007) (66)
Behavior control over aversive events: does control that requires effort reduce anxiety and physiological arousal? (1980) (63)
Terror Management in the Courtroom: Exploring the Effects of Mortality Salience on Legal Decision Making. (2005) (60)
Gender-Typical Responses to Sexual and Emotional Infidelity as a Function of Mortality Salience Induced Self-Esteem Striving (2003) (60)
The effects of mortality salience on political preferences: The roles of charisma and political orientation (2010) (55)
Exercise, changes in aerobic capacity, and changes in self-perceptions: An experimental investigation (1981) (52)
Toward a Dual-Motive Depth Psychology of Self and Social Behavior (1995) (51)
The control of death and the death of control: The effects of mortality salience, neuroticism, and worldview threat on the desire for control (2003) (51)
The Appeal of Tragedy: A Terror Management Perspective (1999) (50)
Voluntary expressive changes and emotion. (1982) (47)
Toward an understanding of crowding: The role of physical interaction. (1977) (46)
Toward a dialectical analysis of growth and defensive motives. (2000) (41)
The Urge to Splurge Revisited: Further Reflections on Applying Terror Management Theory to Materialism and Consumer Behavior (2004) (41)
Lethal consumption: Death-denying materialism (2004) (40)
CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS? TERROR MANAGEMENT THEORY AND THE ROLE OF THE ONTOLOGICAL REPRESENTATIONS OF DEATH IN CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL CRISIS (2017) (39)
Fatal Distraction: The Impact of Mortality Salience on Dissociative Responses to 9/11 and Subsequent Anxiety Sensitivity (2006) (39)
Defensive Distancing from Victims of Serious Illness: The Role of Delay (1995) (36)
The undesired self: Deadly connotations (2008) (36)
Political Ideology in the 21st Century: A Terror Management Perspective on Maintenance and Change of the Status Quo (2009) (36)
Converging Toward an Integrated Theory of Self-Esteem: Reply to Crocker and Nuer (2004), Ryan and Deci (2004), and Leary (2004). (2004) (35)
Proximal and Distal Defense (2000) (32)
Anxiety Concerning Social Exclusion: Innate Response or One Consequence of the Need for Terror Management? (1990) (32)
A Terror Management Perspective on the Psychology of Control (1998) (31)
You're Hired! Mortality Salience Increases Americans’ Support for Donald Trump (2017) (30)
Transcending the Self: A Terror Management Perspective on Successful Aging (2018) (27)
In the wake of 9/11: Rising above the terror. (2003) (27)
Finding everland: Flight fantasies and the desire to transcend mortality (2011) (26)
Return of the Living Dead (1997) (23)
Evidence for a role of death thought in American attitudes toward symbols of Islam (2013) (23)
Mortality Salience and Perceptions of People with AIDS: Understanding the Role of Prejudice (2010) (22)
Control of respiration as a means of controlling responses to threat. (1978) (21)
Cardiac and subjective response to cognitive challenge and to controlled physical exercise by male and female coronary prone (type A) and non-coronary prone persons. (1982) (21)
Social Motivation: The Machine in the Ghost: A Dual Process Model of Defense Against Conscious and Unconscious Death-Related Thought (2004) (20)
On graves and graven images: A terror management analysis of the psychological functions of art (2010) (20)
Searching for God: Illness-Related Mortality Threats and Religious Search Volume in Google in 16 Nations (2018) (19)
Mortality Salience Effects on the Life Expectancy Estimates of Older Adults as a Function of Neuroticism (2010) (19)
Fear of success: The influence of sex, sex-role identity, and components of masculinity (1984) (19)
What If They’re Right About the Afterlife? Evidence of the Role of Existential Threat on Anti-Atheist Prejudice (2015) (18)
Effect of Transcendental Meditation versus resting on physiological and subjective arousal. (1983) (17)
The Liberating and Constraining Aspects of Self: Why the Freed Bird Finds a New Cage (1995) (17)
How Our Dreams of Death Transcendence Breed Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Conflict (2009) (17)
Going for broke: mortality salience increases risky decision making on the Iowa gambling task. (2010) (17)
Fear of death and human destructiveness. (2003) (16)
The motivational underpinnings of religion (2004) (16)
Death Can Be Hazardous to Your Heath: Adaptive and Ironic Consequences of Defense Against the Terror of Death (2000) (16)
Death Anxiety: The Challenge and the Promise of Whole Person Care (2011) (15)
Utility of voluntary control of respiration and biofeedback for increasing and decreasing heart rate. (1979) (15)
The Politics of Mortal Terror (2011) (15)
Fostering Existential Maturity to Manage Terror in a Pandemic. (2020) (14)
How our means for feeling transcendent of death foster prejudice, stereotyping, and intergroup conflict: Terror management theory. (2015) (13)
The Psychological Correlates of Decreased Death Anxiety After a Near-Death Experience: The Role of Self-Esteem, Mindfulness, and Death Representations (2019) (12)
Influence of respiratory patterns on the increases and decreases in heart rates in heart rate biofeedback training (1980) (11)
A Reaction to Greenwald, Pratkanis, Leippe, and Baumgardner (1986): Under What Conditions Does Research Obstruct Theory Progress? (1988) (10)
The never-ending story: A terror management perspective on the psychological function of self continuity. (2008) (9)
Teach these souls to fly: Supernatural as human adaptation (2011) (9)
Giving peace a chance. (2003) (8)
Terror management research: Prejudice and self-esteem striving. (2003) (7)
Effects of Transcendental Meditation versus resting on physiological and subjective arousal (1983) (7)
Lancet Commission on the Value of Death (2018) (7)
Terror management theory: An evolutionary existential account of human behavior. (2003) (7)
Self-esteem and immortality: Evidence regarding the terror management hypothesis that high self-esteem is associated with a stronger sense of symbolic immortality (2021) (7)
Journalistic Denial of Death during the Very First Traumatic Period of the Italian COVID-19 Pandemic (2021) (7)
Terror Management Theory (2011) (6)
Souls do not live by cognitive inclinations alone, but by the desire to exist beyond death as well (2006) (6)
Terror management research: Coping with conscious and unconscious death-related thoughts. (2003) (5)
The roots of Islamic terrorism. (2003) (4)
Willful determinism: Exploring the possibilities of freedom (2004) (4)
Dwelling forever in the house of the lord: on the terror management function of religion (2020) (3)
The social psychology of meaning, mortality, and choice: An integrative perspective on existential concerns. (2012) (3)
Black Tuesday: The psychological impact of 9/11. (2003) (3)
Separation Theory: Sheldon Solomon Interview With Robert Firestone (2018) (2)
Influence of respiratory patterns on the increases and decreases in heart rates in heart rate biofeedback training D.S. Holmes, S. Solomom, R.O. Frost and E.F. Morrow, J. psychosom. Res., 24 (1980) 147–153 (1981) (2)
Secular Cultural Worldviews (2019) (2)
From Cradle to Grave: A Terror Management Theory Analysis of Parenthood (2019) (2)
Suppression, accessibility of death-related thoughts, and cultural worldview defense : Exploring the psychodynamics of terror management (1997) (2)
The paradox of faith: how existential concerns motivate both prosocial and antisocial religious behaviors (2020) (1)
The role of death denial in human affairs Denial: Self-Deception, False Beliefs, and the Origins of the Human Mind by Ajit Varki and Danny Brower, Twelve, 2013. US$27.00, hbk (384 pp.) ISBN 978-1-455-51191-4 (2014) (1)
The rocky road from situations to dispositions. (1980) (1)
Terror in America: The day our world changed. (2003) (1)
Little Murders: Cultural Animals in an Existential Age (2013) (1)
A Brief History of Death (2020) (1)
Existential Meaning and Terror Management (2019) (1)
Mourning in Trump’s America: An Existential Account of Political Grief (2019) (1)
Grave Matters: On the Role of Death in Life (1998) (1)
Considering the roles of affect and culture in the enactment and enjoyment of cruelty (2006) (1)
Death and Dying (2014) (0)
Prediction: The master motive? (1982) (0)
20. Death Denial in the Anthropocene (2020) (0)
Creatively Teaching Introductory Psychology in Liberal Arts Institutions (2013) (0)
Letter to the Editor: Feasibility of Dignity Therapy to Reduce Death Anxiety. (2022) (0)
Cordoba House Measure (2013) (0)
List of Contributors (2019) (0)
Self and Identity, Volume 9, List of Contents (2010) (0)
Managing the terror. (2003) (0)
Terror Management Theory: Why War? (2011) (0)
Abstract A032: Dignity therapy effects by race: Chaplain and nurse implementation in pragmatic, multisite stepped-wedge randomized control trial (2023) (0)
Journalistic Denial of Death During the Very First Traumatic Period of the Italian SARS-CoV2 Pandemic (2021) (0)
Avoidance–Threat Tasks (2013) (0)
L2 Palliative care in medicine and in life: an existential account (2023) (0)
The Role of Death Denial in Culture and Consciousness (2017) (0)
Does Technology Create Value? (2019) (0)
Deliver Us from Evil: Terror Management and Support for President George W (2009) (0)
Paradise not found: An inferential juxtaposition of trauma survivors and perpetrators in the realm of terrorism. (2007) (0)
Death Anxiety and Correlates in Cancer Patients Receiving Palliative Care. (2022) (0)

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What Schools Are Affiliated With Sheldon Solomon?

Sheldon Solomon is affiliated with the following schools:

Skidmore College
University of Kansas
Brooklyn College