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Abdollahi, A., Henthorn, C., & Pyszczynski, T. (2009). Experimental peace psychology: Priming consensus mitigates aggression against outgroups under mortality salience. Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, 2(1), 30-37.

Abdollahi, A., & Motyl, M. (in press). The psychology of terrorism: A terror management perspective. Social and Personality Psychology Compass.

Abdollahi, A., Pyszczynski, T., Maxfield, M., & Lusyszczynska, A. (in press). Post-traumatic stress reactions as a disruption in anxiety-buffer functioning: Dissociation and responses to mortality salience as predictors of severity of post-traumatic symptoms. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy.

Allen, M. W. & Wilson, M. (2005). Materialism and food security. Appetite, 45, 314-323.

Allison, S. T., Eylon, D., Beggan, J. K., & Bachelder, J. (2009). The demise of leadership: Positivity and negativity biases in evaluations of dead leaders. The Leadership Quarterly, 20, 115-129.

Anson, J., Pyszczynski, T., Solomon, S., & Greenberg, J. (2009). Political ideology in the 21st century: A terror management perspective on maintenance and change of the status quo.  In Jost, J.T., Kay, A.C., & Thorisdottir, H. (eds.), Social and Psychological Bases of Ideology and System Justification. (pp. 210-240). New York: Oxford University Press.

Arndt, J., Allen, J. J. B, & Greenberg, J. (2001). Traces of terror: Subliminal death primes and facial electromyographic indices of affect. Motivation and Emotion, 25, 253-277.  

Arndt, J., Cook, A., Goldenberg, J. L, & Cox, C. R. (2007). Cancer and the threat of death: The cognitive dynamics of death thought suppression and its impact on behavioral health intentions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92, 12-29.

Arndt, J., Cook, A., & Routledge, C. (2004). The blueprint of terror management: Understanding the cognitive architecture of psychological defense against the awareness of death. In J. Greenberg, S. L., Koole, and T. Pyszczynski (Eds.), Handbook of experimental existential psychology (pp.35-53). New York: Guilford.

Arndt, J., Cox., C.R., Goldenberg, J.L., Vess, M., Routledge, C., & Cohen, F.  (2009). Blowing in the (social) wind: Implications of extrinsic esteem contingencies for terror management and health.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96, 1191-1205.

Arndt, J., & Goldenberg, J.L.  (in press). When self-enhancement is in the driver’s seat: Using the terror management health model to understand health behavior.  In C. Sedikides and M. Alicke (Eds.), The Handbook of Self-enhancement and Self-protection. Guilford Press.

Arndt, J., Goldenberg, J. L., Solomon, S., Greenberg, J., & Pyszczynski, T. (2000). Death can be hazardous to your health: Adaptive and ironic consequences of defenses against the terror of death. In J. Masling & P. Duberstain (Eds.), Psychoanalytic perspectives on sickness and health (Vol. 9, pp. 201-257). Washington D.C: American Psychological Association.

Arndt, J., & Greenberg, J. (1999). The effects of a self-esteem boost and mortality salience on responses to boost relevant and irrelevant worldview threats. Personality and Social Psychological Bulletin, 25, 1331-1341.

Arndt, J., Greenberg, J, & Cook, A. (2002). Mortality salience and the spreading activation of worldview-relevant constructs: Exploring the cognitive architecture of terror management. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 131, 307-324.

Arndt, J., Greenberg, J., Pyszczynski, T., & Solomon, S. (1997). Subliminal exposure to death-related stimuli increases defense of the cultural worldview. Psychological Science, 8, 379-385.

Arndt, J., Greenberg, J., Schimel, J., Pyszczynski, T., & Solomon, S. (2002). To belong or not to belong, that is the question: Terror management and identification with gender and ethnicity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 26-43.

Arndt, J., Greenberg, Simon, L., Pyszczynski, & Solomon, S. (1998). Terror management and self-awareness: Evidence that mortality salience provokes avoidance of the self-focused state. Personality and Social Psychological Bulletin, 24, 1216-1227.

Arndt, J., Greenberg, J., Solomon, S., Pyszczynski, T., & Schimel, J. (1999). Creativity and terror management: The effects of creative activity on guilt and social projection following mortality salience. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 19-32.

Arndt, J., Greenberg, J., Solomon, S., Pyszczynski, T., & Simon, L. (1997). Suppression, accessibility of death-related thoughts, and cultural worldview defense: Exploring the psychodynamics of terror management. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 73, 5-18.

Arndt, J., Lieberman, J. D., Cook, A., & Solomon, S. (2005). Terror management in the courtroom: Exploring the effects of mortality salience on legal decision-making. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 11, 407-438.

Arndt, J., Routledge, C., Cox, C. R., & Goldenberg, J. L. (2005). The worm at the core: A terror management perspective on the roots of psychological dysfunction. Applied and Preventative Psychology, 11, 191-213.

Arndt, J., Routledge, C., & Goldenberg, J. L. (2006). Predicting proximal health responses to reminders of death: The influence of coping style and health optimism. Psychology and Health, 21, 593-614

Arndt, J., Routledge, C., Greenberg, J., & Sheldon, K. M. (2005). Illuminating the dark side of creative expression: Assimilation needs and the consequences of creative action following mortality salience. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 1327-1339.

Arndt, J., Schimel, J., & Cox, C.R.  (2007).  A matter of life and death: Terror management and the existential relevance of self-esteem.  In C. Sedikides & S. Spencer (Eds.), The Self (pp.211-234).  New York: Psychology Press.

Arndt, J., Schimel, J., & Goldenberg, J. L. (2003). Death can be good for your health: Fitness intentions as a proximal and distal defense against mortality salience. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 33, 1726-1746.

Arndt, J., & Solomon, S. (2003). The control of death and the death of control: The effects of mortality salience, neuroticism, and worldview threat on the desire for control. Journal of Research in Personality, 37, 1-22.

Arndt, J., Solomon, S., Kasser, T., & Sheldon, K. M. (2004). The urge to splurge: A terror management account of materialism and consumer behavior. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 14, 198-212.

Arndt, J., Solomon, S., Kasser, T., & Sheldon, K. M. (2004). The urge to splurge revisited: Further reflections on applying terror management theory to materialism and consumer behavior. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 14, 225-229.

Arndt, J., & Vess, M. (2008). Tales from existential oceans: Terror management theory and how the awareness of death affects us all.  Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2/2, 909-928.

 Arndt, J., Vess, M., Cox, C. R., Goldenberg, J. L., & Lagle, S. (2009). The psychosocial effect of thoughts of personal mortality on cardiac risk assessment by medical students. Medical Decision Making, 29, 175-181.

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Baldwin, M. W., & Wesley, R. (1996). Effects of existential anxiety and self-esteem on the perception of others. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 10, 75-95.

Baron, R. M. (1997). On making terror management theory less motivational and more social. Psychological Inquiry, 8, 21-22.

Bassett, J. F. (2007). Psychological defenses against death anxiety: Integrating terror management theory and Firestone's separation theory. Death Studies, 31, 727-750.

Bassett, J. F. (2010). The effects of mortality salience and social dominance orientation on attitudes toward illegal immigrants. Social Psychology, 41, 52-55.

Beatson, R. M., & Halloran, M. J. (2007). Humans rule! The effects of creatureliness reminders, mortality salience and self-esteem on attitudes towards animals. British Journal of Social Psychology, 46, 619-632.

Beatson, R., Laughnan, S., & Halloran, M. (2009). Attitudes toward animals: The effect of priming thoughts of human-animal similarities and mortality salience on the evaluation of companion animals. Society & Animals, 17, 72-89.

Beck, R. (2006). Defensive versus existential religion: Is religious defensiveness predictive of worldview defense? Journal of Psychology & Theology, 34, 143-153.

Ben-Naim, S., Aviv, G., & Hirschberger, G.  (2008).  Strained interaction: Evidence that interpersonal contact moderates the death-disability rejection link.  Rehabilitation Psychology, 53, 464-470.

Birnbaum, G. E., Hirschberger, G., & Goldenberg, J. L.  (in press).  Desire in the Face of Death: Terror Management, Attachment, and Sexual Motivation.  Personal Relationships. 

Bossong, B. (1999). The allocation of resources, moral behavior and the confrontation of one's own mortality. Gruppendynamik, 30, 93-102.

Bossong, B., & Kamkar, P. (1999). Moral behavior, relatives, and salience of mortality as determinants in inheritance allocation. Gruppendynamik, 30,427-443.

Bozo, O. Tunca, A., & Slmsek, Y. (2009). The effect of death anxiety and age on health-promoting behaviors: A terror-management theory perspective.Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied, 143, 377-389.

Burke, B.L., Martens, A., & Faucher, E.H. (2010). Two decades of terror management theory: A meta-analysis of mortality salience research. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 14, 155-195.

Burling, J. W. (1993). Death concerns and symbolic aspects of the self: The effects of mortality salience on status concern and religiosity. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, 19, 100-105.

Buss, D. M. (1997). Human social motivation in evolutionary perspective: Grounding terror management theory. Psychological Inquiry, 8, 22-26.

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Castano, E. (2004). In case of death, cling to the ingroup. European Journal of Social Psychology, 34, 375-384.  

Castano, E., & Dechesne, M. (2005). On defeating death: Group reification and social identification as strategies for transcendence. In W. Stroebe & M. Hewstone (Eds.), European review of social psychology. Chichester, England: Wiley, 16, 221.

Castano, E., Leidner, B., Bonacossa, A., Nikkah, J. Perrulli, R., Spencer, B. & Humphrey, N. (in press). Ideology, Fear of Death and Death Anxiety. Political Psychology.

Castano, E., & Miroslaw, K. (2009). Dehumanization: Humanity and its denial. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 12, 695-697.

Castano, E., Yzerbyt, V., & M. Paladino, M. (2004). Transcending oneself through social identification. In J. Greenberg, S. L., Koole, & T. Pyszczynski (Eds.), Handbook of experimental existential psychology (pp. 305-321). New York: Guilford.

Castano, E., Yzerbyt, V. Y., Paladino, M.P., and Carnaghi, A. (2006). Extending the self in space and time: Social identification and existential concerns. In D. Capozza & R. J. Brown (Eds.), Social Identities. Motivational, Emotional, Cultural Influences (pp. 73-90). London: Sage.

Castano, E., Yzerbyt, V., Paladino, M., & Sacchi, S. (2002). I belong, therefore, I exist: Ingroup identification, ingroup entitativity, and ingroup bias. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28, 135-143.  

Cicirelli, V. G. (2002). Fear of death in older adults: Predictions from terror management theory. Journals of Gerontology Series B- Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 57B, 358-366.  

Chatard, A., Arndt, J., & Pyszczynski, T. (2010). Loss shapes political views? Terror management, political ideology, and the death of close others. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 32, 2-7.

Chatard, A., Pyszczynski, T., Arndt, J., Selimbegović, L., Konan, P., & Van der Linden, M. (in press). Extent of trauma exposure and PTSD symptom severity as predictors of anxiety-buffer functioning. Trauma Psychology: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy.

Chartard, A., Selimbegović, L., N’dri Konan, P., Arndt, J., Pyszczynski, T., Lorenzi-Cioldi, F., & Van Der Linden, M (in press).  Terror management in times of war: Mortality salience effects on self-esteem and governmental support. Journal of Peace Research.

Christie, D. J. (2006). 9/11 Aftershocks: An analysis of conditions ripe for hate crimes. In P. R. Kimmel & C. E. Stout (Eds.), Collateral damage: The psychological consequences of America's war on terrorism (pp. 19-44). Westport, CT, US: Praeger Publishers/Greenwood Publishing Group.

Cohen, F., Ogilvie, D. M., Solomon, S., Greenberg, J., & Pyszczynski, T. (2005). American roulette: The effect of reminders of death on support for George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential election. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 5, 177-187.  

Cohen, F., Solomon, S., Maxfield, M., Pyszczynski, T., & Greenberg, J. (2004). Fatal attraction: The effects of mortality salience on evaluations of charismatic, task-oriented, and relationship-oriented leaders. Psychological Science, 15, 846-851.  

Cohen, F., Sullivan, D., Solomon, S., Greenberg, J., Oglivie, D. (in press). Finding everland: Flight fantasies and the desire to transcend mortality. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

Cook, A., Arndt, J., & Lieberman, J. D. (2004). Backing off the Backfire Effect: The influence of mortality salience and justice nullification beliefs on reactions to inadmissible evidence. Law and Human Behavior, 28, 389-410.  

Coolsen, M. K., & Nelson, L. J. (2002). Desiring and avoiding close romantic attachment in response to mortality salience. Journal of Death and Dying, 44, 257-276.

Cooper, D. P., Goldenberg, J. L., & Arndt, J. (in press). Examination of the terror management health model: The interactive effect of conscious death thought and health-coping variables on decisions in potentially fatal health domains. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

Cox, C. R., Arndt, J., Pyszczynski, T., Greenberg, J., Abdollahi, A., & Solomon, S.  (2008). Terror management and adults’ attachment to their parents: The safe haven remains. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94, 696-717.

Cox, C. R., Cooper, D. P., Vess, M., Arndt, J., Goldenberg, J. L., & Routledge, C.  (2009). Bronze is beautiful but pale can be pretty: The effects of appearance standards and mortality salience on sun-tanning outcomes. Health Psychology, 28, 746-752.

Cox, C. R., Goldenberg, J. L., Arndt, J., & Pyszczynski, T. (2007). Mother’s milk: An existential perspective on negative reactions to breastfeeding. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 110-122.

Cox, C. R., Goldenberg, J. L., Pyszczynski, T., & Weise, D. (2007). Disgust, creatureliness and the accessibility of death-related thoughts. European Journal of Social Psychology. 37, 494-507.

Cozzarelli, C., & Karafa, J. A. (1998). Cultural estrangement and terror management theory. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 24, 253-267.

Cozzolino, P. J., Sheldon, K. M., Schachtman, T. R., & Meyers, L. S. (2009). Limited time perspective, values, and greed: Imagining a limited future reduces avarice in extrinsic people.Journal of Research in Personality, 43, 399-408.

Cozzolino, P. J., Staples, A. D., Meyers, L. S., & Samboceti, J. (2004). Greed, death, and values: From terror management to transcendence management theory. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 278-292.

Crocker, J., & Nuer, N. (2004). Do people need self-esteem? Comment on Pyszczynski et al. (2004). Psychological Bulletin, 130, 469-472.

Cuillier, D. (2009). Mortality morality: Effect of death thoughts on journalism students’ attitudes toward relativism, idealism, and ethics. Journal of Mass Media Ethics, 24, 40-58.

Cuillier, D. (in press). Deadline bias: Effect of death thoughts on intergroup bias in news writing, and potential preventions. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly.

Cuillier, D. (2009). Morality on deadline: The effect of death thoughts on journalism students’ ethics and moral relativism. Journal of Mass Media Ethics, 24, 40-58.

Cuillier, D., Duell, B., & Joireman, J. (2009). FOI friction: The thought of death, national security values, and polarization of attitudes toward freedom of information. Open Government, 5(1), www.opengovjournal.org

Cuillier, D., Duell, B., & Joireman, J. (2010). The mortality muzzle: The effect of death thoughts on attitudes toward national security and a watchdog press. Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, 11(2), 185-202.

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Das, E., Bushman, B. J., Bezemer, M. D. Kerkhof, P., & Cermeulen, I. E. (2009). How terrorism news reports increase prejudice against outgroups: A terror management account. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 453-459

Davis, W., Juhl, J., & Routledge, C. (in press). Death and design: The terror management function of teleological beliefs. Motivation and Emotion.

Davis, C. G., & McKearney, J. M. (2003). How do people grow from their experience with trauma or loss? Journal of Social & Clinical Psychology, 22, 477-492.

Davis, D., & McVean, A. (2009). Theory and methods for studying the influence of unconscious processes: Illustrations from attachment and terror management research.In W. O’Donahue, & S. R., Graybar (Eds.) Handbook of contemporary psychotherapy: Toward an improved understanding of effective psychotherapy.Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.

Dechesne, M., Greenberg, J., Arndt, J., & Schimel, J. (2000) Terror management and sports fan affiliation: The effects of mortality salience on fan identification and optimism. European Journal of Social Psychology, 30, 813-835.  

Dechesne, M., Janssen, J., & van Knippenberg, A. (2000). Defense and distancing as terror management strategies: The moderating role of need for structure and permeability of group boundaries. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 923-932.

Dechesne, M., & Kruglanski, A. W. (2004). Terror's epistemic consequences: existential threats and the quest for certainty and closure. In Greenberg, S. Koole, & Pyszczynski (Eds.), Handbook of experimental existential psychology (pp. 247-262). New York: Guilford Press.

Dechesne, M., Pyszczynski, T., Arndt, J., Ransom, S., Sheldon, K. M, van Knippenberg, A., & Janssen, J. (2003). Literal and symbolic immortality: The effect of evidence of literal immortality on self-esteem striving in response to mortality salience. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 722-737.

Dechesne, M., van den Berg, C., & Soeters, J. (2007). International collaboration under threat: A field study in Kabul. Conflict Management and Peace Science, 24, 25-36.

DeLisi, L.E. (2004). Dr. DeLisi replies. American Journal of Psychiatry, 161, 1508-1509.

DeWall, C. N., & Baumeister, R. F. (2007). From terror to joy: Automatic tuning to positive affective information following mortality salience. Psychological Science, 18, 984-990.

Dimmock, J. A., Gucciardi, D. F. (2008). The utility of modern theories of intergroup bias for research on antecedents to team identification. Psychology of Sport and Exercise. 9, 284-300.

Dunkel, C. S. (2002).Terror management theory and identity: The effect of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on anxiety and identity change. Identity, 2, 281-301.

Dunkel, C. S. (2009). The association between thoughts of defecation and thoughts of death.Death Studies, 33, 356-371

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Echebarria-Echabe, A., & Valencia Garate J, F. (2008). Analysing the effects of mortality salience on prejudice and decision-taking. In F. M. Olsson (Ed.), New developments in the psychology of motivation. Hauppauge, NY, US: Nova Science Publishers.

Echebarria-Echabe, A. (2009). The effects of mortality salience aroused by threats to human identity on intergroup bias. European Journal of Social Psychology, 39, 862-867.

Edmondson, D., Park, C. L. Chaudoir, S. R., & Wortman, J. H. (2009). Death without God: Religious struggle, death concerns, and depression in the terminally ill. Psychological Science, 19, 754-758.

Eylon, D., & Allison, S.T. (2005). The "frozen in time" effect in evaluations of the dead. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 1708-1717.

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Fernandez, S., Castano, E., & Singh, I. (2010). Managing death in the burning grounds of Varanasi, India: A terror management investigation. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 41, 182-194.

Ferraro, R., Shiv, B., & Bettman, J.R. (2005). Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die: Effects of mortality salience and self-esteem on self-regulation in consumer choice. Journal of Consumer Research, 32, 65-75.

Fessler, D. M. T., Navarrete, C, D. (2005).The effect of age on death disgust: Challenges to terror management perspectives. Evolutionary Psychology, 3, 279-296.

Florian, V., & Mikulincer, M. (1997). Fear of death and the judgment of social transgressions: A multidimensional of terror management theory. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 73, 369-380.  

Florian, V., & Mikulincer, M. (1998). Terror management in childhood: Does death conceptualization moderate the effects of mortality salience on acceptance of similar and different others. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 24, 1104-1112.

Florian, V., & Mikulincer, M. (1998). Symbolic immortality and the management of the terror of death. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 725-734.

Florian, V., & Mikulincer, M. (2004). A multifaceted perspective on the existential meanings, manifestations, and consequences of the fear of personal death. In J. Greenberg, S. L. Koole, & T. Pyszczynski (Eds.), Handbook of experimental existential psychology (pp.54-70). New York: Guilford.

Florian, V., Mikulincer, M., & Hirschberger, G. (2001). Validation of personal identity as a terror management mechanism -- Evidence that sex-role identity moderates mortality salience effects. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 8,1011-1022.

Florian, V., Mikulincer, M., & Hirschberger, G. (2001). An existentialist view on mortality salience effects: Personal hardiness, death-thought accessibility, and cultural worldview defenses. British Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 437-453.  

Florian, V., Mikulincer, M., & Hirschberger, G. (2002). The anxiety-buffering function of close relationships: Evidence that relationship commitment acts as a terror management mechanism. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82, 527-542.  

Friedman, M. (2008). Religious fundamentalism and responses to mortality salience: A quantitative text analysis. International Journal for the Psychology of Religion. 18,  216-237.

Friedman, R. S., & Arndt, J. (2005). Reconsidering the connection between terror management theory and dissonance theory. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 1217-1225.  

Friedman, M., & Rholes, W. S. (2008). Religious fundamentalism and terror management. International Journal for the Psychology of Religion. 18, 36-52.

Friedman, M., & Rholes, W. S. (2009). Religious fundamentalism and terror management: Differences by interdependent and independent self-construal. Self and Identity. 8, 24-44.

Friese, M., & Hofmann, W. (2008). What would you have as a last supper? Thoughts about death influence evaluation and consumption of food products. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 1388-1394.

Fritsche, I., & Jonas, E. (2005). Gender conflict and worldview defense. British Journal of Social Psychology, 44, 571-581.

Fritsche, I. & Jonas, E. (in press). Mortality salience and its subtle impact on peace and conflict. In D. Christie (Ed.), The encyclopaedia of peace psychology. Wiley-Blackwell.

Fritsche, I., Jonas, E., Fischer, P., Koranyi, N., Berger, N., & Fleischmann, B. (2007). Mortality salience and the desire for offspring. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, 753-762.

Fritsche, I., Jonas, E. & Fankhänel, T. (2008). The role of control motivation in mortality salience effects on ingroup support and defense. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95, 524-541.

Fritsche, I., Jonas, E., Niesta Kayser, D., & Koranyi, N. (2010). Existential threat and compliance with pro-environmental norms. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 30, 67-79.

Fritsche, I., Koranyi, N., Beyer, C., Jonas, E., & Fleischmann, B. (2009). Enemies welcome: Personal threat and reactions to outgroup doves and hawks. International Review of Social Psychology, 22 (3/4), 157-179.

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Gailliot, M. T., Schmeichel, B. J., & Maner, J. K. (2007). Differentiating the effects of self-control and self-esteem on reactions to mortality salience. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, 894-901.

Gailliot, M., Schmeichel, B., Baumeister, R. (2006). Self-regulatory processes defend against the threat of death: Effects of self-control depletion and trait self-control on thoughts and fears of dying. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91, 49-62.

Gailliot, M. T., Sillman, T. F., Schmeichel, B. J., Maner, J. K., & Plant, E. A. (2008). Mortality salience increases adherence to salient norms and values. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34, 993-1003.

Giannakakis, A., & Fritsche, I. (in press). Social identities, group norms, and threat: On the malleability of ingroup bias. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

Goldenberg, J. L. (2005). The body stripped down: An existential account of ambivalence toward the physical body. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 14, 224-228.

Goldenberg, J.L., & Arndt, J. (2008).  The implications of death for health: A terror management health model for behavioral health promotion.  Psychological Review, 115, 1032-1053.

Goldenberg, J. L., Arndt, J., Hart, J., & Brown, M. (2005). Dying to be thin: The effects of mortality salience and body-mass-index on restricted eating among women. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 1400-1412.

Goldenberg, J.L., Arndt, J., Hart, J., & Routledge, C.  (2008).  Uncovering an existential barrier to breast cancer screening.  Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 260-274.

Goldenberg, J. L., Cox, C. R., Arndt, J., & Goplen, J. (2007). “Viewing” pregnancy as existential threat: The effects of creatureliness on reactions to media depictions of the pregnant body. Media Psychology, 10, 211-230.

Goldenberg, J. L., Cox, C. R., Pyszczynski, T., Greenberg, J., & Solomon, S. (2002).Understanding human ambivalence about sex: The effects of stripping sex of meaning. Journal of Sex Research, 39, 310-320.  

Goldenberg, J. L., Hart, J., Pyszczynski, T., Warnica, G. W., Landau, M. J., & Thomas, L. (2006). Ambivalence towards the body: Death, neuroticism, and the flight from physical sensation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 1264-1277.

Goldenberg, J. L., Hart, J., Pyszczynski, T., Warnica, G. M., Landau, M., & Thomas, L. (2006). Terror of the body: Death, neuroticism, and the flight from physical sensation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 1264-1277.

Goldenberg, J. L., Heflick, N. A., & Cooper, D. P.   (2008).  The thrust of the problem: Bodily inhibitions and guilt as a function of mortality salience and neuroticism.  Journal of Personality. 76, 1055-1080.

Goldenberg, J., Heflick, N., Vaes, J., Motyl, M., Greenberg, J. (2009). Of mice and men, and objectified women: A terror management account of infrahumanization. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 12, 763-776.

Goldenberg, J. L., Kosloff, S., & Greenberg, J. (2006). Existential underpinnings of approach and avoidance of the physical body. Motivation and Emotion, 30, 127-134.

Goldenberg, J. L., Landau, M., Pyszczynski, T., Cox, C., Greenberg, J., Solomon, S, & Dunnam, H. (2003). Gender-typical responses to sexual and emotional infidelity as a function of mortality salience induced self-esteem striving. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29, 1585-1595.

Goldenberg, J. L., McCoy, S. K., Pyszczynksi, T., Greenberg, J., & Solomon, S. (2000). The body as a source of self-esteem: The effects of mortality salience on identification with one's body, interest in sex, and appearance monitoring. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 118-130.

Goldenberg, J. L., Pyszczynski, T. Greenberg, J., & Solomon, S. (2000). Fleeing the body: A terror management perspective on the problem of human corporeality. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 4, 200-218.  

Goldenberg, J. L., Pyszczynski, T., Greenberg, J., Solomon, S., Kluck, B., & Cornwell, R. (2001). I am not an animal: Mortality salience, disgust, and the denial of human creatureliness. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 130, 427-435.  

Goldenberg, J. L., Pyszczynski, T., Johnson, K. D., Greenberg, J., & Solomon, S. (1999). The appeal of tragedy: The effects of mortality salience on emotional response. Media Psychology, 1, 313-329. 

Goldenberg, J. L., Pyszczynski, T., McCoy, S. K., Greenberg, J., & Solomon, S. (1999). Death, sex, love, and neuroticism: Why is sex such a problem? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 1173-1187.  

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Johnson, S. L., Ballister, C., & Joiner, T. E. (2005). Hypomanic vulnerability, terror management, and materialism. Personality and Individual Differences, 38, 287-296.

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Jonas, E., Fritsche, I., & Greenberg, J. (2005). Currencies as cultural symbols - An existential psychological perspective on reactions of Germans toward the Euro. Journal of Economic Psychology, 26, 129-146.

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Kökdemir, D., & Yeniçeri, Z. (2010). Terror Management in a Predominantly Muslim Country: The Effects of Mortality Salience on University Identity and on Preference for the Development of International Relations. European Psychologist, 15, 165-174.

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Kosloff, S., Greenberg, J., & Solomon, S. (2006). Considering the roles of affect and culture in the enjoyment and enactment of cruelty. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29, 231-232.

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Landau, M. J., Goldenberg, J., Greenberg, J., Gillath, O., Solomon, S., Cox, C., Martens, A., & Pyszczynski, T. (2006). The siren's call: Terror management and the threat of men's sexual attraction to women. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 129-146.

Landau, M. J., & Greenberg, J. (2006) Play it safe or go for the gold? A terror management perspective on self-enhancement and protection motives in risky decision making. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 1633-1645.

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Lieberman, J. D. (2010).  Inner terror and outward hate: The effects of mortality salience on bias motivated attacks. In B. H. Bornstein, & R. L. Wiener (Eds.) Emotion and the law (pp.133-155).  New York, NY: Springer Publishing Co.

Lieberman, J. D., & Arndt, J. (2009).  Terror management theory and jury decision-making.  The Jury Expert, 21.

Lieberman, J. D., Arndt, J., Personius, J., & Cook, A. (2001). Vicarious annihilation: The effect of mortality salience on perceptions of hate crimes. Law and Human Behavior, 25, 547-566.

Lieberman, J. D., Arndt, J., & Vess, M. (2009).  Inadmissible evidence and pretrial publicity: The effects (and ineffectiveness) of admonitions to disregard. In J. D. Lieberman, & D. Krauss (Eds.) Psychology in the Courtroom (pp.67-96).  Ashgate Publishing Limited:  Hampshire, England.

Lieberman, J. D., & Greenberg, J. (in press). The rational irrationality of punishment: A terror management perspective. Clio's Psyche.

Little, M., & Sayers, E. (2004). The skull beneath the skin: Cancer survival and awareness of death. Psycho-Oncology, 13, 190-198.

Lykins, E. L. B., Segerstrom, S. C., Averill, A. J., Evans, D. R., & Kemeny, M. E. (2007). Goal shifts following reminders of mortality: Reconciling posttraumatic growth and terror management theory. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 33, 1088-1099.

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MacDorman, K. F. (2005). Androids as an experimental apparatus: Why is there an uncanny valley and can we exploit it? Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society, 106-118.

Magee, R. G., & Kalyanaraman, S. (2009). Effects of worldview and mortality salience in persuasion processes.Media Psychology, 12, 171-194.

Mandel, N., & Heine, S. J. (1999). Terror management and marketing: He who dies with the most toys wins. Advances in Consumer Research, 26, 527-532.

Mandel, N., & Smeesters, D. (2008). The sweet escape: Effects of mortality salience on consumption quantities for high- and low-self-esteem consumers. Journal of Consumer Research. 35, 309-323.

Marcus, D. K., Hughes, K. T. (2007). Health anxiety and terror management: Commentary on "Memory bias in health anxiety is related to the emotional valence of health-related words". Journal of Psychosomatic Research. 62, 275-276.

Martens, A., Burke, B.L., Schimel, J. & Faucher, E.H. (in press). Same but different: Meta-analytically examining the uniqueness of mortality salience effects. European Journal of Social Psychology.

Martens, A., Greenberg, J., Allen, J.B., Hayes, J., Schimel, J., & Johns, M. (in press). Self-esteem and autonomic physiology: Investigating the relationship between self-esteem and cardiac vagal tone. Journal of Research in Personality.

Martens, A., Greenberg, J., Schimel, J., Kosloff, S., & Weise, D.R. (in press). Disdain for Anxious Individuals as a Function of Mortality Salience. European Journal of Social Psychology.

Martens, A., Greenberg, J., Schimel, J., & Landau, M. J. (2004). Ageism and death: Effects of mortality salience and similarity to elders on distancing from and derogation of elderly people. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 1524-1536.

Martens, A., Goldenberg, J. L., & Greenberg, J. (2005). A terror management perspective on ageism. Journal of Social Issues, 61, 223-239.

Martens, A., Schimel, J., Greenberg, J, & Kosloff, S. (in press). Disdain for anxious individuals as a function of mortality salience. European Journal of Social Psychology.

Martens, A., & Schmeichel, B.J. (in press). Evidence that thinking about death relates to time estimation behavior. Death Studies.

Martin, I. M., Kamins, M. A. (2010) An application of terror management theory in the design of social and health-related anti smoking appeals. Journal of Consumer Behavior, 9, 172-190.

Masheswaran, D., & Agrawal, N. (2004). Motivational and cultural variations in mortality salience effects: Contemplations on terror management theory and consumer behavior. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 14, 213-218.

Matz, D. C., Evans, B. A., Geisler, C. J., & Hinsz, V. B. (1997). Life, death, and terror management theory. Representative Research in Social Psychology, 21, 48-59.

Maxfield, M., Pyszczynski, T., Kluck, B., Cox, C., Greenberg, J., Solomon, S., & Weise, D. (2007). Age-related differences in responses to thoughts of one’s own death: Mortality salience and judgments of moral transgressors. Psychology and Aging, 22, 343-351.

Maxfield, M., Solomon, S., Pyszczynski, T., & Greenberg, J. (in press). Mortality salience effects on the life expectancy estimates of older adults as a function of neuroticism. Journal of Aging Research.

McCann, S.J.H. (2008). Social threat, authoritarianism, conservativism, and U.S. state death penalty sentencing (1977-2004). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94, 913-923.

McCoy, S. K., Pyszczynski, T., Solomon, S., & Greenberg, J. (2000). Transcending the self: A terror management perspective on successful aging. In A. Tomer (Ed.), Death attitudes and the older Adult: Theories, concepts and applications (pp. 37-63). Philadelphia, PA: Brunner-Routledge.

McGregor, H., Lieberman, J. D, Solomon, S., Greenberg, J., Arndt, J., Simon, L, & Pyszczynski, T. (1998). Terror management and aggression: Evidence that mortality salience motivates aggression against worldview threatening others. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 590-605.

McGregor, I., Gailliot, M. T., Vasquez, N. A., & Nash, K. A. (2007). Ideological and personal zeal reactions to threat among people with high self-esteem: Motivated promotion focus. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 1587-1599.

McPherson, S., & Joireman, J. (2009). Death in groups: Mortality salience and in the interindividual-intergroup discontinuity effect. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 12, 419-429.

Mikulincer, M., & Florian, V. (1997). Do we really know what we need? A commentary on Pyszczynski, Greenberg, and Solomon. Psychological Inquiry, 8, 33-36.

Mikulincer, M., & Florian, V. (2000). Exploring individual differences in reactions to mortality salience: Does attachment style regulate terror management mechanisms? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 260-273.

Mikulincer, M., & Florian, V. (2002). The effect of mortality salience on self-serving attributions - evidence for the function of self-esteem as a terror management mechanism. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 24, 261-271.

Mikulincer, M., & Florian, V. (2008). The complex and multifaceted nature of the fear of personal death: The multidimensional model of Victor Florian. Tomer, Adrian (Ed); Eliason, Grafton T (Ed); Wong, Paul T. P (Ed). (2008). Existential and spiritual issues in death attitudes, Mahwah, NJ, US: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers.

Mikulincer, M., Florian, V., Birnbaum, G., & Malishkevich, S. (2002). The death-anxiety buffering function of close relationships: Exploring the effects of separation reminders on death-thought accessibility. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28, 287-299.

Mikulincer, M., Florian, V., & Hirschberger, G. (2003). The existential function of close relationships: Introducing death into the science of love. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 7, 20-40.

Mikulincer, M., Florian, V., & Hirschberger, G. (2004). The terror of death and the quest for love -An existential perspective on close relationships. In J. Greenberg, S. L., Koole, and T. Pyszczynski (Eds.), Handbook of experimental existential psychology (pp.287-304). New York: Guilford.

Miller, C. H, & Landau, M. J. (in press). Communication and the causes and costs of terrorism: A terror management theory perspective. In D. O’Hair, R. Heath, & G. Ledlow (Eds.), Terrorism: Communication and rhetorical perspectives. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Miller, C. H., & Landau, M. J. (2005). Communication and terrorism: A terror management theory perspective. Communication Research Reports, 22, 79-88.

Miller, E.D. (2003). Imagining partner loss and mortality salience: Consequences for romantic-relationship satisfaction. Social Behavior and Personality, 31,167-180.

Miller, G., & Taubman - Ben-Ari, O. (2004). Scuba diving risk taking - A terror management theory perspective. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 26, 269-282.

Miller, R. L., & Mulligan, R. D. (2002). Terror management: The effects of mortality salience and locus of control on risk-taking behaviors. Personality & Individual Differences, 33, 1203-1214.

Mogahed, D., Pyszczynski, T., & Stern, J. (in press).  Religious engagement and violence.  In C. Meister (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Religious Diversity.  London: Oxford University. Press

Mosher, C. E., Danoff-Burg, S. (2007). Death anxiety and cancer-related stigma: A terror management analysis. Death Studies. 31, 885-907.

Motyl, M., Hart, J., & Pyszczynski, T. (2010). When animals attack: The effects of mortality salience, infrahumanization of violence, and authoritarianism on support for war. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 46, 200-203.

Motyl, M., & Pyszczynski, T. (in press). The existential underpinnings of the cycle of terrorist and counterterrorist violence and pathways to peaceful resolutions. European Review of Social Psychology.

Motyl, M., Pyszczynski, T., & Hart,  J. (2010).  When animals attack:  The Effects of Mortality Salience, Infrahumanization of Violence, and Authoritarianism on Support for War.  Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 200-203.

Motyl, M., Rothschild, Z, & Pyszczynski, T. (2009). The cycle of violence and pathways to peace.  International Journal of Organisational Transformation and Social Change, 6(2), 153-170.

Motyl, M., Vail III, K. E., & Pyszczynski, T. (2009). Waging terror: Psychological motivations in cultural violence and peacemaking. In M. Morgan (Ed.), The Day That Changed Everything: The Impact of 9/11 (pp. 23-36). Boston, MA: Praeger/Greenwood Press.

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Nail, P., & McGregor, I. (2009). Conservative shift among liberals and conservatives following 9/11/01.Social Justice Research, 22, 231-240.

Nail, P., McGregor, I, Drinkwater, A. E., Steele, G., & Thompson, A. W. (2009). Threat causes liberals to think like conservatives.Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 901-907.

Nakonezny, P. A., Reddick, R., & Rodgers, J. L. (2004). Did divorces decline after the Oklahoma City bombing? Journal of Marriage and Family, 66, 90-100.

Navarrete, C. D. (2005). Death concerns and other adaptive challenges: The effects of coalition-relevant challenges on worldview defense in the US and Costa Rica. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 8,411-427.

Navarrete, C. D., Fessler, D. M. T. (2005). Normative bias and adaptive challenges: A relational approach to coalitional psychology and a critique of terror management theory. Evolutionary Psychology. 3, 297-325.

Navarrete, C. D., Kurzban, R., Fessler, D. M. T., & Kirkpatrick, L.A. (2004). Anxiety and intergroup bias: Terror management or coalitional psychology? Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 7,370-397.

Nelson, L. J., Moore, D. L., Olivetti, J., & Scott, T. (1997). General and personal mortality salience and nationalistic bias. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 23, 884-892.

Niemiec, C. P., Brown, K. W., Kashdan, T. B., Cozzolino, P. J., Breen, W. E., Levesque-Bristol, C.,& Ryan, R. M. (2010) Being present in the face of existential threat: The role of trait mindfulness in reducing defensive responses to mortality salience. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99, 344-365.

Niesta, D., Fritsche, I., & Jonas, E. (2008). Mortality salience and its effects on peace processes: A review. Social Psychology. 39, 48-58.

Nodera, A., Karasawa, K., Numazaki, M., & Takabayashi, K. (2007). An examination of the promoter of gender role stereotype-activation based on terror management theory. Japanese Journal of Social Psychology. 23, 195-201.

Norenzayan, A., & Hansen, I. G. (2006). Belief in supernatural agents in the face of death. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 174-187.

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Ogilvie, D. M., Cohen, F., & Solomon, S. (2008). The undesired self: Deadly connotations. Journal of Research in Personality. 42, 564-576.

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Pastor, L. H. (2004). Culture as examining the causes and consequences of collective trauma. Psychiatric Annals, 34, 616-622.

Paulhus, D. L., & Trapnell, P. D. (1997). Terror management theory: Extended or overextended? Psychological Inquiry, 8, 40-43.

Pelham, B. W. (1997). Human motivation has multiple roots. Psychological Inquiry, 8, 44-47.

Peters, H. J., Greenberg, J., Williams, J. M., & Schneider, N. R. (2005). Applying terror management theory to performance: Can reminding individuals of their mortality increase strength output? Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 27, 111-116.

Pirutinsky, S. (2009) The terror management function of Orthodox Jewish religiosity: A religious culture approach. Mental Health, Religion & Culture, 12, 247-256.

Pyszczynski, T., Abdollahi, A, Greenberg, J, & Solomon, S. (2006). Crusades and Jihads: An Existential Psychological Perspective on the Psychology of Terrorism and Political Extremism. In J. Victoroff (Ed.), Tangled roots: Social and psychological factors in the genesis of terrorism. Dordecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer.

Pyszczynski, T., Abdollahi, A., Solomon, S., Greenberg, J., Cohen, F., & Weise, D. (2006). Mortality salience, martyrdom, and military might: The Great Satan versus the Axis of Evil. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 525-537.

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Pyszczynski, T., Greenberg, J., & Goldenberg, J. (2003). Freedom versus fear: On the defense, growth, and expansion of the self. In M. R. Leary & J. P.Tangney (Eds.), Handbook of self and identity(pp. 314-343). New York: Guilford Press.

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Pyszczynski, T., Greenberg, J., & Solomon, S. (1997). Why do we need what we need? A terror management perspective on the roots of human social motivation. Psychological Inquiry, 8, 1-21.

Pyszczynski, T., Greenberg, J., & Solomon, S. (1998). A terror management perspective on the psychology of control: Controlling the uncontrollable. In M. Kofta, G. Weary, & G. Sedek (Eds.), Personal control in action (pp.85-108). New York: Plenum Press.

Pyszczynski, T., Greenberg, J., & Solomon, S. (1999). A dual-process model of defense against conscious and unconscious death-related thoughts: An extension of terror management theory. Psychological Review, 106, 835-845.

Pyszczynski, T., Greenberg, J., & Solomon, S. (2000). Proximal and distal defense: A new perspective on unconscious motivation. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 9, 156-159.

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Pyszczynksi, T., Greenberg, J., Solomon, S., Arndt, J., & Schimel, J. (2004). Why do people need self-esteem?: A theoretical and empirical review. Psychological Bulletin, 130, 435-468.

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Pyszczynski, T., Greenberg, J., Solomon, S., & Hamilton, J. (1990). A terror management analysis of self-awareness and anxiety: The hierarchy of terror. Anxiety Research, 2, 177-195.

Pyszczynski, T., Greenberg, J., Solomon, S., & Maxfield, M. (2006). On the unique psychological import of the human awareness of mortality: Theme and variations. Psychological Inquiry, 17, 328-356.

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Pyszczynski, T., Motyl, M., & Abdollahi, A. (2009). Righteous violence: Killing for god, country, freedom, and justice. Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, 1, 12-39.

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Pyszczynski, T., Wicklund, R. A., Floresky, S., Gauch, G., Koch, S., Solomon, S., & Greenberg, J. (1996). Whistling in the dark: Exaggerated estimates of social consensus in response to incidental reminders of mortality. Psychological Science, 7, 332-336.

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Reiling, D. M. (2002). The "simmie" side of life: Old Order Amish youths' affective response to culturally prescribed deviance. Youth and Society, 34, 146-171.

Renkema, L. J., Stapel, D. A., Maringer, M., & van Yperen, N. W. (2008). Terror management and stereotyping: Why do people stereotype when mortality is salient? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34, 553-564.

Renkema, L. J., Stapel, D. A., Van Yperen, N. W. (2008). Go with the flow: Conforming to others in the face of existential threat. European Journal of Social Psychology, 747-756.

Rindfleisch, A., & Burroughs, J. E. (2004). Terrifying thoughts, terrible materialism? Contemplations on a terror management account of materialism and consumer behavior. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 14,219-224.

Rindfleisch, A., Burroughs, J. E., & Wong, N. (2008). The safety of objects: Materialism, existential insecurity, and brand connection. Journal of Consumer Research, Inc., 36, 1-16.

Roberts, T. A., & Goldenberg, J. L. (2007). Wrestling with nature: An existential perspective on the body and gender in self-conscious emotions. In J. Tracy, R. Robins, & J. Tangney (Eds.), The self-conscious emotions: Theory and research. New York: Guilford Press.

Rosenblatt, A., Greenberg, J., Solomon, S., Pyszczynski, T., & Lyon, D. (1989). Evidence for terror management theory I: The effects of mortality salience on reactions to those who violate or uphold cultural values. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 57, 681-690.

Rosenbloom, T. (2003). Sensation seeking and risk taking in mortality salience. Personality and Individual Differences, 35,1809-1819.

Rothschild, Z. K., Abdollahi, A., & Pyszczynski, T. (2009). Does peace have a prayer? The effect of mortality salience, compassionate values, and religious fundamentalism on hostility toward ourgroups. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 816-827.

Routledge, C., & Arndt, J.  (2008). Self-sacrifice as self-defense: Mortality salience increases efforts to affirm a symbolic immortal self at the expense of the physical self. European Journal of Social Psychology, 38, 531-541.

Routledge, C., & Arndt, J. (2005). Time and terror: Managing temporal consciousness and the awareness of mortality. In A. Strathman & J. Joirman (Eds.), Understanding behavior in the context of time: Theory, research, and applications (pp. 59-84). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Routledge, C., & Arndt, J. (2009).  Creative terror management: Creativity as a facilitator of cultural exploration after mortality salience. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 493-505.  

Routledge, C., Arndt, J., & Goldenberg, J. L. (2004). A time to tan: Proximal and distal effects of mortality salience on sun exposure intentions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 1347-1358.

Routledge, C., Arndt, J., Sedikides, C., & Wildschut, T. (2008). A blast from the past: The terror management function of nostalgia. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 132-140.

Routledge, C., Arndt, J., & Sheldon, K. M. (2004). Task engagement after mortality salience: The effects of creativity, conformity, and connectedness on worldview defense. European Journal of Social Psychology, 34, 477-487. 

Routledge, C., Arndt, J., Vess, M., & Sheldon, K.M. (2008).  The life and death of creativity: The effects of mortality salience on self and social directed creative expression.  Motivation and Emotion, 32, 331-338.

Routledge, C. & Juhl, J. (2010). When death thoughts turn into death fears: Purpose in life moderates the effects of mortality salience on death anxiety. Cognition and Emotion, 24, 848–854.

Routledge, C., Juhl, J., & Sullivan, D. (2009). Uncertainty middle management: Personal certainty is not the core existential motive. Psychological Inquiry, 20, 235 – 239.

Routledge, C., Juhl, J., & Vess, M. (2010). Divergent reactions to the terror of terrorism: Personal need for structure moderates the effects of terrorism salience on worldview-related attitudinal rigidity. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 32, 243-249.

Routledge, C., Ostafin, B., Juhl, J., Sedikides, C., Cathey, C., & Liao, J. (in press). Adjusting to death: The effects of self-esteem and mortality salience on well-being, growth motivation, and maladaptive behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Rutjens, B. T., van der Pligt, J., & van Harreveld, F. (2009). Things will get better: The anxiety-buffering qualities of progressive hope. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 535-543.

Rutjens, B. T., & Loseman, A. (2010). The society-supporting self: System justification and cultural worldview defense as different forms of self-regulation. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 13, 241-250.

Ryan, R. M., & Deci, E. L. (2004). Avoiding death or engaging life as accounts of meaning and culture: Comment on Pyszczynski et al. (2004). Psychological Bulletin, 130, 473-477.

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Salzman, M. (2003). Existential anxiety, religious fundamentalism, the "clash of civilizations" and terror management theory. Cross Cultural Psychology Bulletin 37, 10-16.

Salzman, M. B. (2008). Globalization, religious fundamentalism and the need for meaning. International Journal of Intercultural Relations. 32, 318-327.

Salzman, M. B. (2001). Globalization, culture, and anxiety: Perspectives and predictions from terror management theory. Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless, 10, 337-352.

Salzman, M. B. (2001). Cultural trauma and recovery: Perspectives from terror management theory. Trauma Violence and Abuse, 2, 172-191.

Salzman, M. B., & Halloran, M. J. (2004). Cultural trauma and recovery: Cultural meaning, self-esteem, and the re-construction of the cultural anxiety-buffer. In J. Greenberg, S. L., Koole, & T. Pyszczynski (Eds.), Handbook of experimental existential psychology (pp. 231-246). New York: Guilford.

Sani, F., Herrera, M., & Bowe, M. (2009). Perceived collective continuity and ingroup identification as defence against death awareness. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 45, 242-245.

Schimel, J., Hayes, J., Williams, T.  J., & Jahrig, J. (2007). Is death really the worm at the core? Converging evidence that worldview threat increases death-thought accessibility. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92, 789-803.

Schimel, J., Landau, M., & Hayes, J. (2008). Self-esteem: A human solution to the problem of death. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2, 1218-1234.

Schimel, J., Simon, L., Greenberg, J., Pyszczynski, T., Solomon, S., Waxmonski, J., & Arndt, J. (1999). Support for a functional perspective on stereotypes: Evidence that mortality salience enhances stereotypic thinking and preferences. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 905-926.

Schimel, J. Wohl, M., & Williams, T. (2006). Terror management and trait empathy: Evidence that mortality salience promotes reactions of forgiveness among people with high trait empathy. Motivation and Emotion, 30, 214-224.

Schmeichel, B. J., Gailliot, M. T., Filardo, E. McGregor, I., Gitter, S., & Baumeister, R. F. (2009). Terror management theory and self-esteem revisited: The roles of implicit and explicit self-esteem in mortality salience effects.Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96, 1077-1087.

Schmeichel, B. J., & Martens, A. (2005). Self-affirmation and mortality salience: Affirming values reduces worldview defense and death-thought accessibility. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 658-667.

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Sedikides, C.S., Wildschut, T., Arndt, J., & Routledge, C.  (2008). Nostalgia: Past, Present, and Future.  Current Directions in Psychological Science, 17, 304-307.

Sedikides, C., Wildschut, T., Gaertner, L., Routledge, C., & Arndt, J.  (2008).  Nostalgia as an enabler of self-continuity. In F. Sani (Ed.), Individual and collective self-continuity: Psychological perspectives (p.227-239). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Shaffer, B. A., & Hastings, B. M. (2004). Self-esteem, authoritarianism, and democratic values in the face of threat. Psychological Reports, 95, 311-316.

Shehryar, O., & Hunt, D. M. (2005).A terror management perspective on the persuasiveness of fear appeals. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 15, 275-287.

Silvia, P. J. (2001). Nothing of the opposite: Intersecting terror management and objective self-awareness. European Journal of Personality, 15, 73-82.

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