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Jeff Schimel

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Nash K, Kleinert T, Leota J, Scott A, Schimel J
Biol Psychol . 2022 Feb; 169:108283. PMID: 35114302
Atheism and agnosticism are becoming increasingly popular, yet the neural processes underpinning individual differences in religious belief and non-belief remain poorly understood. In the current study, we examined differences between...
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Scott A, Schimel J, Sharp M
J Pers Soc Psychol . 2021 Feb; 120(4):861-881. PMID: 33539153
Terror management theory (TMT) proposes that the awareness of our eventual death is at odds with our evolved desire to live and that humans attempt to resolve this psychological conflict...
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Major R, Whelton W, Schimel J, Sharpe D
Can J Aging . 2016 Apr; 35(2):261-72. PMID: 27118066
Terror management theory (TMT) posits that cultural worldviews function to allay concerns about human mortality. Preliminary research with older adults has indicated that seniors do not respond to death reminders...
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Webber D, Zhang R, Schimel J, Blatter J
Br J Soc Psychol . 2015 Jun; 55(1):144-61. PMID: 26040421
The meaning maintenance model proposes that violations to one's expectations will cause subsequent meaning restoration. In attempts to distinguish meaning maintenance mechanisms from mechanisms of terror management, previous research has...
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Martens A, Sainudiin R, Sibley C, Schimel J, Webber D
PLoS One . 2014 Apr; 9(4):e93732. PMID: 24755753
Highly lethal terrorist attacks, which we define as those killing 21 or more people, account for 50% of the total number of people killed in all terrorist attacks combined, yet...
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Webber D, Schimel J, Martens A, Hayes J, Faucher E
Pers Soc Psychol Bull . 2013 Feb; 39(4):470-81. PMID: 23407746
Clinical evidence demonstrates that killing among soldiers at war predicts their experience of long-lasting trauma/distress. Killing leads to distress, in part, due to guilt experienced from violating moral standards. Because...
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Boyce J, Martens A, Schimel J, Kuijer R
Body Image . 2012 Apr; 9(3):413-6. PMID: 22503143
Two studies examined the relationship between women's insecurity-arousing comparisons with female models and shoe/handbag ownership. Idealized media images appear capable of threatening some women's sense of attractiveness and it may...
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Hayes J, Schimel J, Arndt J, Faucher E
Psychol Bull . 2010 Sep; 136(5):699-739. PMID: 20804234
Terror management theory (TMT) highlights the motivational impact of thoughts of death in various aspects of everyday life. Since its inception in 1986, research on TMT has undergone a slight...
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Hayes J, Schimel J, Williams T
Psychol Sci . 2008 May; 19(5):501-7. PMID: 18466412
According to terror management theory, the annihilation of people who threaten one's worldview should serve the function of defending that worldview. The present research assessed this hypothesis. A sample of...
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Strachan E, Schimel J, Arndt J, Williams T, Solomon S, Pyszczynski T, et al.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull . 2007 Jun; 33(8):1137-51. PMID: 17545415
Terror management theory (TMT) posits that cultural worldviews and self-esteem function to buffer humans from mortality-related anxiety. TMT research has shown that important behaviors are influenced by mortality salience (MS)...