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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.

Abel, E. L., & Kruger, M. L. (2009). Mortality salience of birthdays on day of death in the major leagues. Death Studies, 33, 175-184.

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., & Luszczynska, A. (2012). Posttraumatic stress reactions as a disruption in anxiety-buffer functioning: Dissociation and responses to mortality salience as predictors of severity of posttraumatic symptoms. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 3, 329-341.

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. (2012). A significant contributor to a meaningful cultural drama: Terror management research on the functions and implications of self-esteem. In P. R. Shaver, & M. Mikulincer (Eds.). Meaning, mortality, and choice: The social psychology of existential concerns (pp. 55-73). Washington D.C.: American Psychological Association.

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. (2011). When self-enhancement drives health decisions: Insights from a terror management health model. In M. D. Alicke & Sedikides, C. (Ed.), Handbook of self-enhancement and self-protection (pp. 380-398). New York: 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., Landau, M., Vail, K. E., & Vess, M. (in press). An edifice for enduring personal value: A terror management perspective on the human quest for multi-level meaning. Invited to appear in K. Markman, T. Proulx & M. Lindberg (Eds.), The Psychology of Meaning.

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., Vail, K. E., Cox, C., Goldenberg, J., Piasecki, T., & Gibbons, R. (in press). Dying for a smoke: The interactive effect of mortality reminders and tobacco craving on smoking topography. Health Psychology

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.

Bardi, C. A. (2011). Ignoring a main character: A rookie director’s mistake. PsycCRITIQUES, 56.

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.

Bassett, J. R., & Connelly, J. N. (2011). Terror management and reactions to undocumented immigrants: Mortality salience increases aversion to culturally dissimilar others. The Journal of Social Psychology, 151, 117-120.

Bassett, J. F., & Sonntag, M. E. (2010). The effects of mortality salience on disgust sensitivity among university students, older adults, and mortuary students. The Open Psychology Journal, 3, 1-8.

Baum, N. (2010). After a terror attack: Israeli—Arab professionals’ feelings and experiences. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 27, 685-704.

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.

Beatson, R., McLennan, J. (2011). What applied social psychology theories might contribute to community bushfire safety research after Victoria’s “Black Saturday.” Australian Psychologist, 46, 171-182.

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

Beck, R. (2008). Feeling queasy about the Incarnation: Terror management theory, death, and the body of Jesus. Journal of Psychology and Theology, 36, 303-313.

Beck, R., McGregor, D., Woodrow, B., Haugen, A., & Killion, K. (2010). Death, art, and The Fall: A terror management view of Christian aesthetic judgments. Journal of Psychology and Christianity, 29, 301-307.

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., Hirschberger, G., & Goldenberg, J. (2011). Desire in the face of death: Terror management, attachment, and sexual motivation. Personal Relationships, 18, 1-19.

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.

Boucher, H. C. (2011). Self-knowledge defenses to self-threats. Journal of Research in Personality, 45, 165-174.

Bozo, O., Tunca, A., Simsek, 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., Nikka, J., Perrulli, R., Spencer, B., et al., (2011). Ideology, fear of death, and death anxiety. Political Psychology, 32, 601-621.

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., Selimbegovic, L., Konan, P. N., & Van der Linden, M. (2012). Extent of trauma exposure and PTSD symptom severity as predictors of anxiety-buffer functioning. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 4, 47-55.

Chatard, A., & Selimbegovic, L. (2011). When self-destructive thoughts flash through the mind: Failure to meet standards affects the accessibility of suicide-related thoughts. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100, 587-605.

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.

Chrisler, J. C. (2011). Leaks, lumps, and lines: Stigma and women’s bodies. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 35, 202-214.

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., Jussim, L., Harber, K. D., & Bhasin, G. (2009). Modern anti-Semitism and anti-Israeli attitudes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 97, 290-306.

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. (2011). The politics of mortal terror. Current directions in Psychological Science, 20, 316-320.

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., & Ogilvie, D. M. (2011). Finding everland: Flight fantasies and the desire to transcend mortality. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 88-102.

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. (2011). Empowering the self: Using the terror management health model to promote breast self-examination. Self and Identity, 10, 315-325.

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. (2012). How sweet it is to be loved by you: The role of perceived regard in the terror management of close relationships. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 102, 616-632.

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.

Cullier, D. (2012). Subconscious gatekeeping: The effect of death thoughts on bias toward outgroups in news writing. Mass communication & Society, 15, 4-24.

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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Dar-Nimrod, I. (2012). Viewing death on television increases the appeal of advertised products. The Journal of Social Psychology, 152, 199-211.

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. E., Juhl, J., & Routledge, C. (2011). Death and design: The terror management function of teleological beliefs. Motivation and Emotion, 35, 98-104.

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’Donohue & S. R. Graybar (Eds.), Handbook of contemporary psychotherapy: Toward an improved understanding of effective psychotherapy (pp. 75-115). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

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.

Dupuis, D. R., & Safdar, S. (2010). Terror management and acculturation: Do thoughts of death affect the acculturation attitudes of receiving society members? International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 34, 436-451.

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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.  

Fransen, M. L., Fennis, B. M., Pruyn, A. T. D., & Das, E. (2008). Rest in peace? Brand-induced mortality salience and consumer behavior. Journal of Business Research, 61, 1053-1061.

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.

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Kashdan, T. B., Afram, A., Brown, K. W., Birnbeck, M., & Drvashanov, M. (2011). Curiosity enhances the role of mindfulness in reducing defensive responses to existential threat. Personality and Individual Differences, 50, 1227-1232.

Kashima, E. S. (2010). Culture and terror management: What is ‘culture’ in cultural psychology and terror management theory? Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 4, 164-173.

Kashima, E. S., Halloran, M., Yuki, M., & Kashima, Y. (2004). The effects of personal and collective mortality salience on individualism: Comparing Australians and Japanese with higher and lower self-esteem. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40, 384-392.

Kasser, T., & Sheldon, K. M. (2000). Of wealth and death: Materialism, mortality salience, and consumption behavior. Psychological Science, 11, 348-351.

Kastenbaum, R. (2009). Should we manage terror--if we could? Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 59, 271-304.

Kastenbaum, R., & Heflick, N. A. (2010). Sad to say: Is it time for sorrow management theory? Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 62, 305-327.

Kastenmuller, A., Greitemeyer, T., Ai, A. L., Winter, G., & Fischer, P. (2011). In the face of terrorism: Evidence that belief in literal immortality reduces prejudice under terrorism threat. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 50, 604-616.

Kazén, M., Baumann, N., Kuhl, J. (2005). Self-regulation after mortality salience: National pride feelings of action-oriented German participants. European Psychologist, 10, 218-228.

Kelley, M. P. (2010). The evolution of beliefs in God, spirit, and the paranormal, I: Terror management and ritual healing theories. Journal of Parapsychology, 74, 336-357.

Kesebir, P., Luszczynska, A., Pyszczynski, T., & Benight, C. (2011). Posttraumatic stress disorder involves disrupted anxiety-buffer mechanisms. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 30, 819-841.

Kesebir, P., & Pyszczynski, T. (2011). A moral-existential account of the psychological factors fostering intergroup conflict. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 5, 878-890.

Kesebir, P., & Pyszczynski, T. (2012). The role of death in life: Existential aspects of human motivation. In R. M. Ryan (Ed.). The Oxford handbook of human motivation (pp. 43-64). New York: Oxford University Press.

Klimmt, C. (2011). Media psychology and complex modes of entertainment experiences. Journal of Media Psychology: Theories, Methods, and Applications, 23, 34-38.

Kneer, J., Hemme, I., & Bente, G. (2011). Vicarious belongingness: Effects of socioemotional commercials under mortality salience. Journal of Media Psychology: Theories, Methods, and Applications, 23, 133-140.

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.

Koole, S. L., Greenberg, J., & Pyszczynski, T. (2004). The best of two worlds: Experimental and existential psychology now and in the future. In Greenberg, J., Koole, S., & Pyszczynski, T. (Eds.), Handbook of experimental existential psychology(pp.497-504). New York: Guilford Press.

Koole, S. L, Greenberg, J., & Pyszczynski, T. (2006). Introducing science to the psychology of the soul: Experimental existential psychology. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 15, 212-216.

Koole, S. L., & Van den Berg, A. E. (2004). Paradise lost and reclaimed: A motivational analysis of human-nature relations. In J. Greenberg, S. L. Koole, & T. Pyszczynski (Eds.), Handbook of experimental existential psychology (pp. 86-103). New York: Guilford.

Koole, S. L., & Van den Berg, A .E. (2005). Lost in the wilderness: Terror management, action orientation, and nature evaluation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88, 1014-1028.

Koole, S., Greenberg, J., & Pyszczynski, T. (2006). Introducing science to the psychology of the soul: Experimental existential psychology. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 15, 212-216.

Kosloff, S., & Greenberg, J. (2006). Android science by all means, but let’s be canny about it! Interaction studies: Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, 7, 343-346.

Kosloff, S. & Greenberg, J. (2009). Pearls in the Desert: Death Reminders Provoke Immediate Derogation of Extrinsic Goals, but Delayed Inflation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 197-203.

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.

Kosloff, S., Greenberg, J., Sullivan, D., & Weise, D. (2010). Of trophies and pillars: Exploring the terror management functions of short-term and long-term relationship partners. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36, 1037-1051.

Kosloff, S., Greenberg, J., Weise, D., & Solomon, S. (2010). Mortality salience and political preferences: The roles of charisma and political orientation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 139-145

Kosloff, S., Landau, M. J., Sullivan, D., & Greenberg, J. (2008). A terror management perspective on the quiet and the loud ego: Implications of ego volume control for personal and social well-being. In H. A. Wayment & J. Bauer (Eds.). Transcending self-interest: Psychological explorations of the quiet ego (pp. 33-42). Washington, D.C.: APA Press

Kosloff, S., Landau, M. J., Weise, D., & Greenberg, J. (in press). In the Wake of 9/11: A Terror Management Analysis of the Psychological Repercussions of the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks. In M. J. Morgan (Ed.), The Day that Changed Everything? Looking at the Impact of 9-11 at the End of the Decade. Greenwood: PraegerInternational Security Press.

Kosloff, S., Solomon, S., Greenberg, J., Cohen, F., Gershuny, B., Routledge, C., & Pyszczynski, T. (2006). Fatal distraction: The impact of mortality salience on dissociative responses to 9/11 and subsequent anxiety sensitivity. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 28, 349-356.

Kramer, R. (2007). The journals of Ernest Becker, 1964-1969. Journal of Humanistic Psychology. 47, 430-473.

Kugler, M. B., & Cooper, J. (2010). Still an American? Mortality salience and treatment of suspected terrorists. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 40, 3130-3147.

Kumagai, T., & Ohbuchi, K. (2002). Changes in social cognition and social behavior after the September 11th affair: An interpretation from terror management theory. Tohoku Psychologica Folia, 61, 22-28.

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Lam, S. R., Morrison, K. R., & Smeesters, D. (2009). Gender, intimacy, and risky sex: A terror management account. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 1046-1056.

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.

Landau, M. J., & Greenberg, J., & Kosloff, S. (2010). Coping with life’s one certainty: A terror management perspective on the existentially uncertain self. In R. M. Arkin, K. C. Oleson, & P. J. Carroll (Eds.), Handbook of The Uncertain Self (pp. 195-215). New York: Psychology Press.

Landau, M. J., Greenberg, J., & Rothschild, Z. K. (2009). Motivated cultural worldview adherence and culturally loaded test performance. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 442-453.

Landau, M. J., Greenberg, J., & Solomon, S. (2004). The motivational underpinnings of religion. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27, 743-744.

Landau, M. J., Greenberg, J., & Solomon, S. (2008). The neverending story: A terror management perspective on the psychological function of self-continuity. In F. Sani (Ed.), Individual and collective self-continuity: Psychological perspectives. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 87-100.

Landau, M. J., Greenberg, J., Solomon, S., Pyszczynski, T. & Martens, A. (2006). Windows into nothingness: Terror management, meaninglessness, and negative reactions to modern art. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 879-892.

Landau, M. J., Greenberg, J., & Sullivan, D. (2008). Managing terror when worldviews and self-worth collide: Evidence that mortality salience increases reluctance to self-enhance beyond authorities. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 68-79.

Landau, M.J., Greenberg, J., & Sullivan, D. (2009). Defending a coherent autobiography: When past events appear disordered, mortality salience prompts compensatory bolstering of the past's significance and the future's orderliness.  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 1012-1020.

Landau, M. J., Greenberg, J., & Sullivan, D. (2009). Managing Terror when Self-Worth and Worldviews Collide: Evidence that Mortality Salience Increases Reluctance to Self-Enhance beyond Authorities.  Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 68-79.

Landau, M. J., Greenberg, J., Sullivan, D., Routledge, C., & Arndt, J. (2009). The protective identity: Evidence that mortality salience heightens the clarity and coherence of the self-concept. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 796-807.

Landau, M. J., Johns, M., Greenberg, J., Pyszczynski, T., Solomon, S., & Martens, A. (2004). A Function of form: Terror management and structuring of the social world. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87, 190-210.

Landau, M. J., Kosloff, S., & Greenberg, J. (2010). Coping with life’s one certainty: A terror management perspective on the existentially uncertain self. In R. M. Arkin, K. C. Oleson, & P. J. Carroll (Eds.), Handbook of the Uncertain Self (pp. 195-215). New York: Pyschology Press.

Landau, M. J., Kosloff, S., & Schmeichel, B. J. (2011). Imbuing everyday actions with meaning in response to existential threat. Self and Identity, 10, 64-76.

Landau, M. J., Rothschild, Z. K., & Sullivan, D. (2012). Extremism in everyday life: Fetishism as a defense against existential uncertainty. In M. A. Hogg & D. L. Blaylock (Eds.). Extremism and the psychology of uncertainty (pp. 131-146). New York: Wiley-Blackwell.

Landau, M. J., Solomon, S., Greenberg, J., Cohen, F., Pyszczynski, T., Arndt, J., Miller, C. H., Ogilvie, D. M., & Cook, A. (2004). Deliver us from evil: The effects of mortality salience and reminders of 9/11 on support for President George W. Bush. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 1136-1150.

Landau, M. J., Solomon, S., Pyszczynski, T., & Greenberg, J. (2007). On the compatibility of terror management theory and perspectives on human evolution. Evolutionary Psychology, 5, 476-519.

Landau, M. J., & Sullivan, D. (in press). Terror management motivation at the core of personality. Chapter to be published in L. Cooper & R. Larsen (Eds.), APA Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology: Volume 3. Personality Processes and Individual Differences.

Landau, M. J., Sullivan, D., & King, L. A. (2010). Terror management and personality: Variations in the psychological defense against the awareness of mortality. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 4, 906-917.

Landau, M. J., Sullivan, D., & Solomon, S. (2010). On graves and graven images: A terror management analysis of the psychological functions of art. European Review of Social Psychology, 21, 114-154.

Lam, S. R., Morrison, K. R., & Smeesters, D. (2009). Gender, intimacy, and risky sex: A terror management account.Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 1046-1056.

Laufer, A., Solomon, Z., & Levine, S. Z. (2010). Elaboration on posttraumatic growth in youth exposed to terror: The role of religiosity and political ideology. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 45, 647-653.

Lavine, H., Lodge, M., & Freitas, K. (2005). Threat, authoritarianism, and selective exposure to information. Political Psychology, 26, 219-244.

Leary, M. R. (2004). The function of self-esteem in terror management theory and sociometer theory: Comment on Pyszczynski et al. (2004). Psychological Bulletin, 130, 478-482.

Leary, M. R. & Schreindorfer, L. S. (1997). Unresolved issues with terror management theory. Psychological Inquiry, 8, 26-29.

Leboeuf, G. (2001). Le déni de la mort comme motivation humaine fondamentale. Aspects conceptuels et empiriques de la théorie de la gestion de la terreur. (The denial of death as human fundamental motivation: Conceptual and empirical aspects of terror management theory). Revue de l'Université de Moncton, 32, 7-51.

Lerner, M. J. (1997). What does the belief in a just world protect us from: The dread of death or the fear of undeserved suffering? Psychological Inquiry, 8, 29-32.

Lieberman, E. J. (2004). Terror management theory. American Journal of Psychiatry, 161, 1508.

Lieberman, J. D. (1999). Terror management, illusory correlation, and perceptions of minority groups. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 21, 13-23.

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.

Louis, W. R. (2009). If they’re not crazy, then what? The implications of social psychological approaches to terrorism for conflict management. In W. G. K. Stritke, S. Lewandowsky, D. Denemark, J. Clare, & F. Morgan (Eds.), Terrorism and torture: An interdisciplinary perspective (pp. 125-153). New York: Cambridge University Press.

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.

Ma-Kellams, C., & Blascovich, J. (2011). Culturally divergent responses to mortality salience. Psychological Science, 22, 1019-1024.

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.

Manwell, L. A. (2010). In denial of democracy: Social psychological implications for public discourse on state crimes against democracy post-9/11. American Behavioral Scientist, 53, 848-884.

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. (2010). Disdain for anxious individuals as a function of mortality salience. European Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 1172-1183.

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. (2011). Evidence that thinking about death relates to time-estimation behavior. Death Studies, 35, 504-524.

Martin, I. M., & Kamins, M. A. (2010). An applications of terror management theory in the design of social and health-related anti-smoking appeals. Journal of Consumer Behaviour, 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.

McBride, M. K. (2011). The logic of terrorism: Existential anxiety, the search for meaning, and terrorist ideologies. Terrorism and Political Violence, 23, 560-581.

McCabe, S., Vail, K. E., Arndt, J., & Goldenberg, J. L. (in press). Multi-layered meanings in health decision making: A terror management health model. To appear in C. Routledge & J. Hicks (Eds.), The Experience of Meaning in Life: Perspectives from the Psychological Sciences. Springer Press.

McCallum, N. L., & McGlone, M. S. (2011). Death be not profane: Mortality salience and euphemism use. Western Journal of Communication, 75, 565-584.

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.

McCann, S. J. H. (2009). Political conservatism, authoritarianism, and societal threat: Voting for Republican representatives in U.S. congressional elections from 1946 to 1992. Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied, 143, 341-358.

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.

Mikulincer, M., & Shaver, P. R. (2012). Helplessness: A hidden liability associated with failed defenses against awareness of death. In P. R. Shaver, & M. Mikulincer (Eds.). Meaning, mortality, and choice: The social psychology of existential concerns (pp. 37-53). Washington D.C.: American Psychological Association.

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

Mohammadi, M., Ghorbani, N., & Abdollahi, A. (2010). The mortality salience and self-esteem: An experimental study. Journal of Iranian Psychologists, 7, 57-64.

Morgan, G. S., Wisneski, D. C., Skitka, L. J. (2011). The expulsion from Disneyland: The social psychological impacts of 9/11. American Psychologist, 66, 447-454.

Morris, G. J., & McAdie, T. (2009). Are personality, well-being, and death anxiety related to religious affiliation? Mental Health, Religion, & Culture, 12, 115-120.

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.

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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.

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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.

Oren, L., & Possick, C. (2010). Is ideology a risk factor for PTSD symptom severity among Israeli political evacuees? Journal of Traumatic Stress, 23, 483-490.

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

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