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CURRICULUM VITAE
Jamie Arndt
Personal
Birth date:
December 22, 1971
Birthplace:
Hartford, Ct.
Residence:
1906 Katy Woods CT
Columbia, MO. 65203
(573)447-0068
Office: Department of Psychological Sciences
111 McAlester Hall
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211
(573)884-4678
E-mail: [email protected]
Education
1990 - 1993
1995 - 1997
1997 - 1999
Skidmore College, B.A.
Major: Psychology
University of Arizona, M.A. in Psychology
Major: Social Psychology
University of Arizona, Ph.D. in Psychology
Major: Social Psychology; Minor: Psychophysiology
Honors and Awards
1995-96
1998
2003
2003
2004
2009
2010
2012
American Psychological Association Minority Fellowship
Centennial Achievement Graduate Award, University of Arizona,
Graduate College, nominee
Robert S Daniel Junior Faculty Teaching Award, University of Missouri
Provost’s Junior Faculty Teaching Award, University of Missouri
Department’s nominee, Provost’s Junior Faculty Research and Creativity
Award, University of Missouri
International Society for Self and Identity (ISSI) Early Career Award
University of Missouri Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Research and
Creativity Activity in the Social & Behavioral Sciences
Frederick A. Middlebush Professor of Psychological Sciences
Employment
1994-95
1995
1996-98
1999-05
2005-2010
2010-present
Research Technician, Social Psychology Laboratory, University of Arizona
Brightstar Tutoring
Research Associate, Social Psychology Laboratory, University of Arizona.
Assistant Professor, University of Missouri
Associate Professor, University of Missouri
Professor, University of Missouri
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Professional Affiliations and Services
Consulting Editor (currently and/or past):
Journal of Personality & Social Psychology,
Attitudes and Social cognition
Journal of Personality & Social Psychology,
Personality Processes & Individual Differences
Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin
Health Psychology
2010, 2011
Guest Associate Editor, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Ad-hoc reviewer:
Journal of Personality & Social Psychology (Attitudes & Social Cognition; Interpersonal
Relations & Group Processes; Personality Processes & Individual Differences),
Journal of Research in Personality, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Journal of
Personality, Journal of Gerontology: Psych. Sciences, Health Psychology, European
Journal of Social Psychology, Social Cognition, Self & Identity, Journal of Social &
Personal Relationships, National Science Foundation, Journal of Experimental
Psychology: General, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, American Psychological
Association, Div. 8, Emotion, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Journal of Social and
Clinical Psychology, Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, Basic and Applied Social
Psychology, Conflict Management and Peace Studies, Psychological Bulletin, Motivation
and Emotion, Personality and Individual Differences, Cognition & Emotion, Review of
General Psychology, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Research for Consumers,
Journal of Advertising, Journal of Organizational Behavior, American Journal of Media
Psychology, Neuroscience Letters, Political Psychology, British Journal of Social
Psychology, Law & Human Behavior, Israeli Science Foundation.
2006-2008
2008-present
2006-2007
2011-present
Member, Society of Personality and Social Psychology Training Committee
Chair, Society of Personality and Social Psychology Training Committee
Member, Advisory group to National Cancer Institute’s National Health Survey
SPIP Study Section, National Institutes of Health
Membership in:
American Psychological Association
American Psychological Society
Society for Personality and Social Psychology
International Society for Self & Identity
Ellis Fischel Cancer Center (Founding Member)
Health Cognitions Working Group
Cognitive, Affective, & Social Processes Working Group (NCI sponsored)
Fellow, Society of Experimental Social Psychology
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Department and University Service
1995-1998
1996
1998
1999- 2006
2000
2001
2000-2002
2002-present
2002
2003-present
2004-2005
2004
2004-2005
2005
2006-present
2006-2007
2007
2009
2011-2012
2013
Coordinator, Psychology Student Research Screening Survey
Member, Social Psychology Search Committee
Colloquium committee host
Departmental Social and Personality Training Committee
Member, Social Psychology Search Committee
Member, Social Psychology Search Committee
Member, Department Curriculum Committee
Chair, Department Human Subjects Committee
Member, Organizing Committee for Social Psychology Around the
Midwest Conference
Member, Campus Institutional Review Board
Member, Faculty Responsibility Committee
Member, Department Chair Search Committee
Member, Developmental Search Committee
Member, Child Clinical Search Committee
Director, Social and Personality Training Committee
Chair, Social/Personality Search Committee
Member of Campus Institutional Review Board Search Committee
for Quality Assurance Associate
Member, University of Missouri taskforce on ethical review boards
Member, Social Psychology Search Committee
Member, Department Chair Search Committee
Grant Support/Funding
PI, University of Missouri Research Board Grant, “Health and fitness consequences of
terror management” 6/1/00-5/31/01 Amount: $32,369
PI, University of Missouri Summer Research Fellowship, “Health extensions and
applications of terror management processes” 6/01-8/01 Amount: $7,000
University of Missouri International Travel Grant, 8/01, Amount: $1,500
PI, National Cancer Institute (R01), “Impact of mortality concerns on cancer risk
behavior” (Co-Investigator: J.L. Goldenberg). 6/02-5/07. Total costs: $1,255,000.
PI, University of Missouri Richard Wallace Research Incentive Grant, “Do you see what
I see?: The accuracy of instructors’ class perceptions in the teaching of psychology”
(Co-investigators: D. Steinley & A. Strathman). 6/06-12/06. Amount: $1,800.
PI, National Cancer Institute (R01), “Continuation: Impact of mortality concerns on
cancer risk behavior” (Co-Investigators: J.L. Goldenberg; F.X. Gibbons). 6/09-5/15
(including no cost extension). Total costs: $1,375,000.
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Co-PI, National Cancer Institute (R01), “Cognitive and emotional processes of
metaphoric cancer communications” (PI: M.J. Landau, Co-PI: L. Cameron). 6/14-5/18.
Total costs: $1,346,000.
Research Interests
Much of what excites me about research is the collaborative process of studying fundamental aspects of
the human condition. I am particularly fascinated by how our awareness of the transience of existence
affects social behaviors, and how the pursuit of meaning and value in one’s life serves to protect the
individual from deeply-rooted anxiety. This has stimulated my research interests in the self, the interface
between cognition and motivation, psychological defense, health, creativity, unconscious processes, and
interpersonal relations. As some examples, I have examined the cognitive architecture by which people
respond to the conscious and unconscious awareness of death, and with funding from the National Cancer
Institute, how the conscious and non-conscious awareness of death can influence operative motivations in
health decisions, and in both cases, engender adaptive and maladaptive effects. In addition, whereas
much of the work from this existential tradition has focused on defensive, self-protective behaviors, I
have been excited to study how this interacts with self-enriching and personal growth-oriented behavior.
I have examined the potential intersection between existential insecurity, creative exploration, different
bases of self-worth, and the capacity for temporal reflection on nostalgia to stimulate positive
psychological functioning. In addition to these directions, I am actively pursuing other lines of research
in such areas as law and political psychology, consumer decisions, health disparities, and close
relationships; most of which are collaboratively inspired by the students I have been fortunate to mentor.
Publications
* = student authors
Arndt, J., & Greenberg, J. (1996). Fantastic accounts can take many forms: False memory
construction? Yes. Escape from self? We don’t think so. Psychological Inquiry, 7, 127132.
Arndt, J., Greenberg, J., Pyszczynski, T., & Solomon, S. (1997). Subliminal exposure to deathrelated stimuli increases defense of the cultural worldview. Psychological Science, 8,
379-385.
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.
Simon, L., Greenberg, J., Arndt, J., Pyszczynski, T., Clement, R., & Solomon, S. (1997).
Perceived consensus, uniqueness, and terror management: Compensatory responses to
threats to inclusion and distinctiveness following mortality salience. Personality and
Social Psychology Bulletin, 23, 1055-1065.
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Simon, L., Greenberg, J., Harmon-Jones, E., Solomon, S., Pyszczynski, T., Arndt, J., & Abend,
T. (1997). Cognitive-experiential self-theory and terror management theory: Evidence
that terror management occurs in the experiential system. Journal of Personality and
Social Psychology, 72, 1132-1146.
Arndt, J., Greenberg, J., Simon, L., Pyszczynski, T., & Solomon, S. (1998). Terror management
and self-awareness: Evidence that mortality salience provokes avoidance of the selffocused state. Personality and Social Psychological Bulletin, 24, 1216-1227.
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.
Simon, L., Arndt, J., Greenberg, J., Solomon, S., & Pyszczynski, T. (1998). Terror management
and meaning: Evidence that the opportunity to defend the worldview in response to
mortality salience increases the meaningfulness of life in the mildly depressed. Journal
of Personality, 66, 359-382.
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., Solomon, S., Pyszczynski, T., & Schimel, J. (1999). Creativity and
terror management: Evidence that creative activity increases guilt and social projection
following mortality salience. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 19-32.
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.
Arndt, J., Goldenberg, J., 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.
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.
Greenberg, J., Arndt, J., Simon, L., Pyszczynski, T., & Solomon, S. (2000). Proximal and distal
defenses in response to reminders of one’s mortality: Evidence of a temporal sequence.
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26, 91-99.
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Lieberman, J.D., & Arndt, J. (2000). Understanding the limits of limiting instructions: Social
psychological explanations for the failures of judicial admonitions to disregard pretrial
publicity and other inadmissible evidence. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 6, 677711.
Schimel, J., Pyszczynski, T., Greenberg, J., *O’Mahen, H., & Arndt, J. (2000). Running from
the shadow: Psychological distancing from others to deny characteristics people fear in
themselves. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 78, 446-462.
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.
Greenberg, J., Arndt, J., Schimel, J., Pyszczynski, T., & Solomon, S. (2001). Clarifying the
function of mortality salience-induced worldview defense: Renewed suppression or
reduced accessibility of death-related thoughts? Journal of Experimental Social
Psychology, 37, 70-76.
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.
Schimel, J., Arndt, J., Pyszczynski, T., & Greenberg, J. (2001). Being accepted for who were
are: Evidence that social validation of core self-attributes reduces defensiveness. Journal
of Personality and Social Psychology, 80, 35-52.
Arndt, J., & Goldenberg, J.L. (2002). From threat to sweat: Towards a fuller understanding of
the role of physiological arousal in self-esteem maintenance. In A. Tesser, J.V. Wood,
and D.A. Stapel (Eds), Self and motivation: Emerging psychological perspectives. (pp.
43-69). Washington DC: APA Books.
Arndt, J., Schimel, J., Greenberg, J., & Pyszczynski, T. (2002). The intrinsic self and
defensiveness: Evidence that activating the intrinsic self reduces self-handicapping and
conformity. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28, 671-683.
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., 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., & Schimel, J. (2003). Will the Real Self-Esteem Please Stand Up?: Toward an optimal
understanding of the nature, functions, and sources of self-esteem. Psychological
Inquiry, 14, 27-31.
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Arndt, J., Schimel, J., & Goldenberg, J.L. (2003). Death can be good for your health: Fitness
intentions as 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.
Dechesne, M., Pyszczynski, T., Arndt, J., *Ransom, S., Sheldon, K.M, van Knippenberg, &
Janssen. (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.
Sheldon, K.M., Arndt, J., & *Houser-Marko, L. (2003). In search of the organismic valuing
process: The human tendency to move toward beneficial goal choices. Journal of
Personality, 71, 835-869.
Arndt, J., *Cook, A., & *Routledge, C. (2004). The blueprint of terror management:
Understanding the cognitive architecture of psychological defense against death-related
thought. In J. Greenberg, S. Koole, & T. Pyszczynski (Eds.), Handbook of Empirical
Existential Psychology, (pp.35-53). New York: Guilford.
Arndt, J., & Goldenberg, J.L. (2004). From self-awareness to shame-proneness: Evidence of a
causal sequence among women. Self and Identity, 3, 27-37.
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.
*Cook, A., Arndt, J., & Lieberman, J.D. (2004). Backing off the backfire effect: The role of
mortality salience and nullification beliefs on the influence of inadmissible evidence.
Law and Human Behavior, 28, 389-410.
*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.
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, 435468.
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Pyszczynksi, T., Greenberg, J., Solomon, S., Arndt, J., & Schimel, J. (2004). Converging
toward an integrated theory of self-esteem: A response to the commentaries.
Psychological Bulletin, 130, 483-488.
*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., & 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.
Schimel, J., Arndt, J., *Banko, K., & *Cook, A. (2004). Not all self-affirmations were created
equal: The cognitive and social benefits of affirming the intrinsic (vs. extrinsic) self.
Social Cognition, 22, 75-99.
Solomon, S., Greenberg, J., Schimel, J., Arndt, J, & Pyszczynski, T. (2004). Human awareness
of mortality and the evolution of culture. In M. Schaller & C. Crandall (Eds.). The
psychological foundations of culture. (pp. 15-40). New York: Erlbaum.
Arndt, J. (2005). Self-esteem. In N. Salkind (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Human Development. New
York: Sage Publications.
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., 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.
Friedman, R.S., & Arndt, J. (2005). Reconsidering the connection between terror management
theory and dissonance theory. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 12171225.
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.
*Grabe, S., *Cook, A., *Routledge, C., *Anderson, C., & Arndt, J. (2005). In Defense of the
Body: The Effect of Mortality Salience on Female Body Objectification. Psychology of
Women Quarterly, 29, 33-37.
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*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.
Sedikides, C., Wildschut, T., Arndt, J., & *Routledge, C. D. (2006). Affect and the self. In J. P.
Forgas (Ed.), Affect in social thinking and behavior: Frontiers in social psychology (pp.
197-215). New York, NY: Psychology Press.
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.
Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., Arndt, J., & *Routledge, C. (2006). Nostalgia: Content, triggers,
and functions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91, 975-993.
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., 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.
*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.
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.
Strachan, E., Schimel, J., Arndt, J., Williams, T., Solomon, S., Pyszczynski, T., & Greenberg, J.
(2007). Terror Mismanagement: Evidence that Mortality Salience Exacerbates Phobic
and Compulsive Behaviors. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 1137-1151.
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.
*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.
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.
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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.
Greenberg, J., Solomon, S., & Arndt, J. (2008). A uniquely human motivation: Terror
management. In J. Shah & W. Gardner (Eds.), Handbook of motivation science (pp.113134). New York: Guilford.
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., 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., *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.
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.
*Vess, M., & Arndt, J. (2008). The nature of death and the death of nature: The impact of
mortality salience on environmental concern. Journal of Research in Personality, 13761380.
*Vess, M., & Arndt, J. (2008). Social support, money, and the Chicago Cubs: Toward a deeper
understanding of symbolic pain management through metaphor and higher order goals.
Psychological Inquiry, 19, 199-204. [Commentary].
*Weise, D.R., Pyszczynski, T., *Cox, C.R., Arndt, J., Greenberg, J., Solomon, S., & *Kosloff, S.
(2008). Interpersonal politics: The role of terror management and attachment processes
in shaping political preferences. Psychological Science, 19, 448-455.
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., *Vess, M., *Cox, C.R., Goldenberg, J.L., & *Lagle, S. (2009). The psychosocial
effect of personal thoughts of mortality on cardiac risk assessment. Medical Decision
Making, 29, 175-181.
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*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.
Goldenberg, J. L., Routledge, C., & Arndt, J. (2009). Mammograms and the management of
existential discomfort: Threats associated with the physicality of the body and
neuroticism. Psychology and Health, 24, 563-581.
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 selfconcept. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 796-807.
Lieberman, J. D., & Arndt, J. (2009). Terror management theory and jury decision-making. The
Jury Expert, 21.
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.
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.
Sedikides, C., Wildschut, T., Routledge, C. R, Arndt, J., & Zhou, X. (2009). Buffering
acculturative stress and facilitating cultural adaptation: Nostalgias as a psychological
resource. In R. S. Wyer, Jr., Y.-Y. Hong, C.-Y. Chiu, & S. Shavitt (Eds.), Understanding
Culture: Theory, Research and Application (pp.361-378). NY, NY: Psychology Press.
*Schlegel, R.J., *Hicks, J.A., Arndt, J., & King, L.A. (2009).Thine own self: True self
accessibility and meaning in life. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96, 473490.
* Vail, K.E., Arndt, J., *Motyl, M., & Pyszczynski, T. (2009). Compassionate values and
presidential politics: Mortality salience, compassionate values and support for Barack
Obama and John McCain in the 2008 Presidential election. Analyses of Social Issues and
Public Policy, 9, 255-268.
*Vess, M., Arndt, J., *Cox, C.R., *Routledge, C., & Goldenberg, J.L. (2009). The terror
management of medical decisions: The effect of mortality salience and religious
fundamentalism on support for faith-based medical intervention. Journal of Personality
and Social Psychology, 97, 334-350.
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*Vess, M., Routledge, C., Landau, M.J., & Arndt, J. (2009). The dynamics of death and
meaning: The effects of death-relevant cognitions and personal need for structure on
perceptions of meaning in life. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 97, 728744.
Chartard, A., Arndt, J., & Pyszczynski, T. (2010). Loss shapes political views: Terror
management, political ideology, and the death of closely related persons. Basic and
Applied Social Psychology, 32, 2-7.
*Cooper, D. P., Goldenberg, J. L., & Arndt, J. (2010). 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, 36, 937-946.
*Hayes, J., Schimel, J., Arndt, J., & * Faucher, E. (2010). A theoretical and empirical review of
the death-thought accessibility concept in terror management research. Psychological
Bulletin, 136, 699-739.
*Henry, E.A., Bartholow, B.D., & Arndt, J. (2010). Death on the brain: Effects of mortality
salience on the neural correlates of race bias. Social Cognitive and Affective
Neuroscience, 5, 77-87.
*Juhl., J., Routledge, C., Arndt, J., Sedikides, C., & Wildschut, T. (2010). Fighting the future
with the past: Nostalgia buffers existential threat. Journal of Research in Personality, 44,
309-314.
Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., Routledge, C., Arndt, J, & Cordaro, F. (2010). Nostalgia as a
repository of social connectedness: The Role of Attachment-Related Avoidance. Journal
of Personality and Social Psychology, 98, 573-596.
Arndt, J., & Goldenberg, J.L. (2011). 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 (pp.380-398).
Guilford Press.
Chartard, A., Selimbegović, L., N’dri Konan, P., Arndt, J., Pyszczynski, T., Lorenzi-Cioldi, F.,
& Van Der Linden, M (2011). Terror management in times of war: Mortality salience
effects on self-esteem and governmental support. Journal of Peace Research. 48, 225234.
*Cooper, D. P., Goldenberg, J. L., & Arndt, J. (2011). Empowering the self: Using the terror
management health model to promote breast self-exam intention. Self and Identity, 10,
315-325.
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Goldenberg, J. L., Cooper, D. P., Heflick, N. A., Routledge, C., & Arndt, J. (2011). Is
objectification always harmful?: Reactions to objectifying images and feedback as a
function of self-objectification and mortality salience. Journal of Experimental Social
Psychology, 47, 443-448.
Greenberg, J. & Arndt, J. (2011). Terror management theory. In Kruglanski, A., E. T. Higgins,
& P. van Lange (Eds.) Handbook of Theories of Social Psychology, Vol I (pp.398-415).
London: Sage Press.
Hart, C.M., Sedikides, C.S., Wildschut, T., Arndt, J., Routledge, C., & Vingerhoets, A.J.J.M.
(2011). Nostalgic recollections of high and low narcissists. Journal of Research in
Personality, 45, 238-242.
Landau, M. J., *Vess, M., Arndt, J., *Rothschild, Z., *Sullivan, D., & Atchley, R.A. (2011).
Embodied metaphor and the “true” self: Priming entity expansion and protection
influences intrinsic self-expressions in self-perceptions and interpersonal behavior.
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 79-87.
*Ritchie, T.D., Sedikides, C., Wildschut, T., Arndt, J., & Gidron, Y. (2011). When a clear selfconcept makes a difference: Self-concept clarity mediates the relation between distress
and subjective well-being. Self and Identity, 10, 493-508.
Routledge, C., Arndt, J., Sedikides, C., Wildschut, T., Arnold, M., Hart, C, Juhl, J., Vingerhoets,
A.J., & Scholtz, W. (2011). The past makes the present meaningful: Nostalgia as an
existential resource. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101, 638652.
Schlegel, R.J., Hicks, J.A., King, L.A., & Arndt, J. (2011). Feeling like you know who you are:
Perceived true self knowledge and meaning in life. Personality and Social Psychology
Bulletin. 37, 745-756.
*Vess, M., Arndt, J., & *Schlegel, R.J. (2011). Construal levels attenuate the reactivity of state
self-esteem. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 861-864.
Arndt, J. (2012). A significant contributor to a meaningful cultural drama: Terror management
research on the functions and implications of self-esteem. In P. Shaver & M. Mikulincer
(Eds.), Meaning, mortality and choice: The social psychology of existential concerns
(pp.55-74). Washington DC, APA.
Chartard, A., Pyszczynski, T., Arndt, J., Selimbegović, L., N’Dri Konan, P., & 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.
*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.
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*Cox, C.R., Reid-Arndt, S.A., & Arndt, J. (2012). Considering the unspoken: The role of death
cognition in quality of life among women with and without breast cancer. Journal of
Psychosocial Oncology, 30, 128-139.
Pyszczynski, T., Greenberg, J., & Arndt, J. (2012). Freedom vs. Fear Revisited: A Dynamic
Integrative Analysis of Defense and Growth of Self. In M.P. Leary and J. Tangney (Eds)
Handbook of Self and Identity 2nd Ed. (pp.378-404). New York: Guilford.
Pyszczynski, T., *Motyl, M., *Vail, K.E., Hirschberger, G., Arndt, J., & Kesebir, P. (2012)
Drawing attention to global climate decreases support for war. Peace and conflict:
Journal of Peace Psychology, 18, 354-368.
Quirin, M., Loktyushin, A., Arndt, J., Kustermann, E., Lo, Y., Kuhl, J., & Eggert, L.D. (2012).
Existential neuroscience: A functional magnetic resonance imaging investigation of
neural responses to reminders of one’s mortality. Social Cognitive and Affective
Neuroscience, 7, 193-198.
Routledge, C., Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., Juhl., J., & Arndt, J. (2012). The power of the past:
Nostalgia as a meaning making resource. Memory, 20, 452-462.
*Schlegel, R.J., *Vess, M., & Arndt, J. (2012). To discover or to create: Metaphors and the true
self. Journal of Personality, 80, 969-993.
*Vail, K. E., Arndt., J., & Abdollahi, A. (2012). Exploring the existential function of religion and
supernatural agent beliefs among Christians, Muslims, Atheists and Agnostics.
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38, 1288-1300.
*Vail III, K. E., Arndt, J., *Motyl, M., & Pyszczynski, T. (2012). The aftermath of destruction:
Images of bombed buildings increase support for war, dogmatism, and death thought
accessibility. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 1069-1081.
*Vail III, K.E., Juhl, J., Arndt, J., Routledge, C., Vess, M., & Rutjens, B. (2012).When death is
good for life: Considering the positive trajectories of terror management. Personality and
Social Psychology Review, 16, 303-329.
*Vess, M., Arndt, J., & *Cox, C.R. (2012). Faith and nature: The effect of death-relevant
cognitions on the relationship between religious fundamentalism and connectedness to
nature. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 3, 333-340.
*Vess, M., Arndt, J., Routledge, C., Sedikides, C., & Wildschut, T. (2012). Nostalgia as a
resource for the self. Self and Identity, 11, 273-284.
Arndt, J., Landau, M.J., *Vail III, K.E., & Vess, M. (2013). An edifice for enduring personal
value: A terror management perspective on the human quest for multi-level meaning.
(pp.49-69) In K. Markman, T. Proulx, & M. Lindberg (Eds.), The psychology of
meaning.
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Arndt., J., *Vail III, K.E., Cox, C.R., Goldenberg, J.L., Piasecki, T., & Gibbons, F.X. (2013).
The interactive effect of mortality reminders and tobacco craving on smoking
topography. Health Psychology, 32, 525-532.
Cheung, W. Y., Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., Hepper, E. G., Arndt, J., & Vingerhoets, J. J. M.
(2013). Back to the future: Nostalgia increases optimism. Personality and Social
Psychology Bulletin, 39, 484-496.
Greenberg, J., Landau, M.J., & Arndt, J. (2013). Mortal cognition: Viewing self and the world
from the precipice (pp.680-701). In D. Carlston (Ed.) Handbook of Social Cognition.
Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
*McCabe, S., *Vail III, K.E., Arndt, J., & Goldenberg, J.L. (2013). Multi-layered meanings in
health decision making: A terror management health model analysis (pp.349-362). In J.
Hicks and C. Routledge (Eds.), The experience of meaning in life: Classical perspectives,
emerging themes, and controversies. Springer Press.
*Morris, K.L., Cooper, D.P., Goldenberg, J.L., Arndt, J., & Routledge, C. (2013).
Objectification as self-affirmation in the context of a death-relevant health threat. Self
and Identity, 12, 610-620.
Arndt, J., Das, E., Schagen, S.B., Reid-Arndt, S., Cameron, L.D., & Ahles, T.A. (2014).
Broadening the cancer and cognition landscape: The role of self-regulatory challenges.
Psycho-Oncology, 23, 1-8.
*Cooper, D. P., Goldenberg, J. L., & Arndt, J. (2014). Perceived efficacy, conscious fear of
death, and intentions to tan: Not all fear appeals are created equal. British Journal of
Health Psychology, 19, 1-15.
*McCabe, S., * Vail, K.E.III, Arndt, J., & Goldenberg, J.L. (2014). Hails from the crypt: A
terror management health model investigation of health and celebrity endorsements.
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 40, 289-300.
*Vess, M., *Schlegel, R.J., *Hicks, J.A., & Arndt, J. (2014). Guilty, but not Ashamed: “True”
Self-Conceptions Influence Affective Responses to Personal Shortcomings. Journal of
Personality, 82, 213-224.
*Morris, K.L., Cooper, D.P., Goldenberg, J.L., & Arndt, J. (in press). Improving the efficacy of
appearance-based sun exposure intervention with the terror management health model.
Psychology and Health.
Moser, R.P., Arndt, J., Han, P., Waters, E., Amsellem, M., & Hesse, B. (in press). Perceptions
of cancer as a death sentence: Prevalence and consequences. Journal of Health
Psychology.
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Manuscripts submitted for publication/ Under Revision
*Cox, C. R., Arndt, J., & Pyszczynski, T. Rebel with a cause: The effects of mortality salience
and negative parent primes on attitudes toward deviance. University of Missouri.
Edmondson, D., Arndt, J., Alcántara, C., Chaplin, W., & Schwartz, J.E. Self-esteem buffers the
acute effects of anxiety on blood pressure. Columbia University.
Klein, W.M.P., Koblitz, A.R., Kaufman, A., *Vail III, K.E., & Arndt, J. Ironic effects of
mortality salience on relative risk perception in smokers. National Cancer Institute.
*McCabe, S.., Arndt, J., Goldenberg, J.L., Vess, M., *Vail III, K.E., Gibbons, F.X., & *Rogers,
R. Visualizing healthy eaters in conjunction with mortality reminders increase
nutritious grocery purchases: An integrative TMHM and PWN analysis. University of
Missouri.
Sedikides, C., Wildschut, T., Routledge, C., Hepper, E., Arndt, J., Abakoumkin, G., Zhou, X.,
Cordaro, P., & Vingerhoets, A. J. J. M. Nostalgia and self-continuity. Manuscript under
review, University of Southampton.
*Stephan, E., Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., Cheung, W.Y., Routledge, C., & Arndt, J.
Nostalgia-evoked inspiration: Mediating mechanisms and motivational implications.
Bar-Ilan University.
*Vail III, K.E., Arndt, J., & Pope, J.B. Exploring the terror management function of basic need
satisfaction. University of Missouri, Columbia.
*Vess, M., & Arndt, J. What Fuels Fluctuations: Identifying Distal and Proximal Influences on
the Magnitude of Contextual Variability in Self-Esteem. Ohio University.
Selected Manuscripts in preparation
*Cox, C. R., & Arndt, J. Why parents matter: Examining the effects of mortality salience on
adults’ preferences for different relationships. University of Missouri, Columbia.
*Cox, C. R., & Arndt, J. Ties that bind: The enduring psychological significance of parental
attachment. University of Missouri, Columbia.
Greenberg, J., Arndt, J., Schmaeder, T., & Landau, M. The cultural animal: An introduction to
social psychology in the 21st century. Textbook under contract with Worth Publishers
(secondary author order to be determined).
*Schlegel, R.J., *Hicks, J.A., Arndt, J., & King, L.A. Know thyself: The benefits of true self
knowledge. University of Missouri.
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*Schlegel, R.J., Arndt, J., & Bettencourt, B.A. Why the true self matters: Examining the
psychological importance of the true self. University of Missouri.
Sedikides, C., Wildschut, T., Routledge, C., Arndt, J., Hepper, E., & Zhou, X. To Nostalgize:
mixing memory with affect and desire. University of Southampton.
*Vail III, K. E., Motyl, M. S., & Arndt, J. (in preparation). The right hand of god: Right-wing
authoritarianism mediates the relationship between religious fundamentalism and
conservative social and political attitudes. University of Missouri.
*Vess, M., & Arndt, J. Action-orientation, mortality salience, and concern for the environmental
impact of land development. University of Missouri.
Selected Presentations
Greenberg, J., Arndt, J., Pyszczynski, T., & Solomon, S. (1997). Subliminal death-related
primes increase defense of the cultural worldview. Western Psychological Association,
Seattle, Washington.
Arndt, J., & Allen, J.B.. (1998, September). Searching for the terror in terror management: The
effect of subliminal death primes on facial electromyography. Poster presented at the
Society for Psychophysiological Research, Denver, Colorado.
Arndt, J., Greenberg, J., & Schimel, J. (1998, April). The Psychodynamics of terror
management. Poster presented at the Southwestern Psychological Association, New
Orleans.
Schimel, J., Greenberg, J., & Arndt, J. (1998, April). Running from the shadow. Poster
presented at the Southwestern Psychological Association, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Schimel, J., Greenberg, J., & Arndt, J. (1998, April). Support for a functional perspective on
stereotypes. Poster presented at the Southwestern Psychological Association, New
Orleans, Louisiana.
Arndt, J. (1999). Psychological defenses activated by thoughts of mortality: A dual defense
model. Talk presented for the University of Massachusetts’s colloquium series. Amherst,
Mass.
Pyszczynski, T., Greenberg, J., Solomon, S., & Arndt, J. (1999, October). The function of selfesteem: Is it an anxiety-buffer or a barometer of social acceptance...and does it matter?.
Talk presented at the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, St. Louis, Missouri.
White, D., & Arndt, J. (2000, May). The effects of stereotype threat and mortality salience on
female gender identification. Poster presented at the Midwestern Psychological
Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Lieberman, J.D., Arndt, J., & Personious, J. (2000, October). The effects of mortality salience
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on perceptions of hate crimes. Talk presented at the American Society of Criminology.
San Francisco, CA.
Arndt, J. (2000, October). To be or not to...affiliated with the ingroup: Identification and
disidentification as terror management defenses. Talk presented at the Society for
Experimental Social Psychology, Atlanta, Georgia.
Brunner, R., Arndt, J., & Sheldon, K. (2001, May). Creativity and terror management: Do
certain creative actions elicit more guilt than others? Poster presented at Midwestern
Psychological Association Conference. Chicago, Illinois.
Johnson, M., Arndt, J., & Cook, A. (2001, May). The road to justice: Existential factors
affecting the limits of limiting instructions. Poster presented at Midwestern
Psychological Association Conference. Chicago, Illinois.
Ramsey, A., Arndt, J., & Cook, A. (2001, May). The effects of conscious death thoughts on
health beliefs. Poster presented at Midwestern Psychological Association Conference.
Chicago, Illinois.
Arndt, J. (2001, August). Exploring the cognitive architecture of terror management: The
spreading activation of death. Talk presented at International Conference on Empirical
Existential Psychology. Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Arndt, J. (2001, September). Bias in the courtroom: A terror management perspective. Talk
presented at University of Missouri Law School.
Arndt, J. (2001, October). Basic Becker: An introduction to the work and science of Ernest
Becker. Talk presented at the Ernest Becker Foundation Love of Violence Conference.
Seattle, Washington.
Arndt, J. (2002, April). The cognitive architecture of terror management. Talk presented at
Social Psychology Around the Midwest. Columbia, Missouri.
Arndt, J. (2002, October). Why can’t we all just get along? Terror management research on
group identification, prejudice, and aggression. Talk presented at the Ernest Becker
Foundation Love of Violence Conference. Seattle, Washington.
Arndt, J. (2002, November). The blueprint of terror management: Exploring the cognitive
architecture of psychological defenses against the awareness of death. Talk presented at
University of Missouri Cognition & Neuroscience Brownbag.
Lieberman, J. D., Arndt, J., & Nard, M. (2002, November). The effects of mortality salience and
awareness of out-group victimization on reactions to hate crimes. Talk presented at the
Conference of the American Society of Criminology at Chicago, IL.
Pratt, J., Arndt, J., & Cook. (2002, May). Terror management and group disidentication. Poster
presented at Midwestern Psychological Association Conference. Chicago, Illinois.
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Arndt, J., Sheldon, K., & Routledge, C. (2003, January). The terror of creativity: An empirical
existential perspective on managing psychological defense and growth. Talk presented at
Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference at Los Angeles, CA.
Arndt, J. (2004, June). Of death and health: Cancer relevant behavioral implications of a dual
defense model of terror management. Talk presented at Health Cognitions Group
Meeting. Salt Lake City, Utah.
Arndt, J. (2004, October). A time to tan. Existential concerns, self-esteem, and tanning
behavior. Talk presented at the MU Department of Dermatology Colloquium Series.
Arndt, J. (2004, December). On death and health: Health behavior implications of a dual
defense model of terror management. Colloquium presented to The University of Kansas
Psychology Department. Lawrence, Kansas.
Arndt, J. (2005, January). Of death and health: Health implications of a dual defense model of
terror management. Talk presented at Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Conference in New Orleans, LA.
Arndt, J. (2005, February). Exploring the cognitive architecture surrounding the awareness of
death: The blueprint of terror management. Talk presented at the University of Missouri
Cognition and Neuroscience Colloquium Series.
Arndt, J. (2005, October). Beauty and the Beast: Health implications of self-related
psychological defenses against the awareness of creatureliness and death. Talk presented
at The Self Pre-conference: Society for Experimental Social Psychology, San Diego, CA.
Arndt, J. (2005, November). Death can be hazardous to your health: A terror management
model of health oriented decision making. Talk presented at The University of Chicago
Business School, Behavioral Science Workshop, Chicago, Illinois.
Routledge, C., Arndt, J., Sedikides, C., & Wildschut, T. (2006 July). Protecting the integrity of
the self with nostalgia. Paper presented at the European Association of Experimental
Social Psychology Small Group Meeting on Social Psychological Perspectives on
Integrity and Self-Integrity at University of Sussex, UK.
Wildschut, T. Sedikides, C., Routledge, C., Arndt, J., & Gaertner, L. (2006, September).
Nostalgia as an enabler of self-continuity. Paper presented at the 53rd Meeting of the
British Psychological Association: Social Psychology Section. Birmingham, England.
Hecker, A., Cox, C.R., & Arndt, J. (2006, May). The effects of different close relationships and
mortality salience on self-esteem. Poster presented at Midwestern Psychological
Association Conference. Chicago, Illinois.
Arndt, J. (2007, May). The health relevant malleability of terror management: Shifting standards
and bases of worth. Talk presented at Health Cognitions Group Meeting , Portland,
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Maine.
Arndt, J. (2007, September). From transience to transcendence: The psychological impact of the
awareness of mortality. Colloquium presented to the Department of Informatics, Indiana
University, Indianapolis.
Arndt, J., (2007, September). Is death hazardous or good for your health: Understanding the
impact of the awareness of mortality on health relevant behavior. Colloquium presented
to the Department of Psychology, Indiana University, Bloomington.
Lagle, S., Vess, M., Cox, C., & Arndt, J. (2007, May). The effects of religion and existential
anxiety on medical decision-making: A terror management approach. Poster presented at
the 79th Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
Vess, M., & Arndt, J. (2008, February). The death of nature and the nature of death: The
impact on mortality salience on environmental concern. Poster presented at the annual
meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM.
Arndt, J. (2008, June). Is death hazardous or good for your health?: Applying terror
management theory to understand how awareness of mortality influences health-relevant
behavior. Invited talk presented at Social Issues and Applied Social Psychology:
Symposium International. Geneva, Switzerland.
Cox, C. R., & Arndt, J. (2009, February). How sweet it is to be loved by you: Toward an
understanding of why close relationships buffer existential fear. Poster presented at the
10th annual convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa,
Florida.
Vess, M., Arndt, J., Landau, M.J., & Greenberg, J. (2009, February). Conceptual Metaphor and
the Self: Evidence that Metaphors Shape the Representation of the Intrinsic Self. Poster
presented at the 10th annual convention of the Society for Personality and Social
Psychology, Tampa, Florida.
Arndt, J. (2009, April). From transience to transcendence: The psychological impact of
awareness of mortality on human aggression, conflict, and peaceful co-existence.
University of Missouri Department of Psychological Sciences Distinguished Lecture
Series: Conflict, Aggression, and Cooperation: Psychological Perspectives on the Roots
of War and Peace.
Arndt, J. (2009, May). Is death hazardous or good for your health?: A terror management
health model for understanding how awareness of mortality influences health-relevant
behavior. Invited address, Midwestern Psychological Association Conference, Chicago,
Ill.
Arndt, J. (2009, July). Conducting health research in psychology departments: Some issues to
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consider during the baseball season. Invited address, National Cancer Institute Summer
Institute on Social/Personality Psychology and Health. Rockville, MD.
Arndt, J. (2009, July). Building a bridge toward a health theory: An illustration with the terror
management health model for understanding cancer prevention and health promotion.
Invited address, National Cancer Institute Summer Institute on Social/Personality
Psychology and Health. Rockville, MD.
Pyszczynski, T., Arndt, J., & Solomon, S. (2009, October). Twenty-five years of terror
management theory: A town hall meeting. Invited address, Society for Experimental
Social Psychology. Portland, ME.
Arndt, J. (2010, January). On the intersection between self, health, and death: Implications
from a terror management health model. Early career award address, Self & Identity
Pre-conference, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Arndt, J. (2010, April). From transience to transcendence: The psychological impact of the
awareness of mortality on human social behavior. Invited Colloquium, Department of
Psychology, Western Illinois University.
Arndt, J. (2010, June). Death can be hazardous to your health: On the psychological
consequences of warning labels that elicit thoughts of mortality. Talk presented at The
American Psychological Society Conference. Boston, MA.
Arndt, J. (2010, October). Focusing and expanding the terror management lens: Insights from
research on health behavior. Talk presented at The Society of Experimental Social
Psychology Conference, Minn. MI.
Arndt, J. (2011, April). A significant contributor to a meaningful cultural drama: Insights from
health behavior on the terror management functions and implications of self-esteem, and
other stuff. Talk presented at the Annual Herzlyia Symposium on Personality and Social
Psychology. Herzlyia, Israel.
Arndt, J. (2011, September). On the intersection between self, health, and death: Implications
from a terror management health model. Talk presented for The University of Arizona
Department of Psychology Colloquium Series.
Arndt, J. (2013, September). On the intersection between self, health, and death: Implications
from a terror management health model. Talk presented for The University of
Connecticut Center for Health Promotion.
Conference/ Symposia Organized
Arndt, J. (February, 2003). Psychological growth and defense: Regulating motivations to
expand and protect the self. Symposium organized for the annual meeting of the Society
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for Personality and Social Psychology, Los Angeles CA.
Arndt, J., (February, 2007). The agony and the ecstasy: Writing in personality and social
psychology. Symposium organized, on behalf of the SPSP training committee, for the
annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, TN.
Arndt, J., (February, 2008). Social Psychology in a Health Context: Doing it Well. Symposium
co-organized with William Klein, for the annual meeting of the Society for Personality
and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM.
Arndt, J., (February, 2008). A primer and sampler of neuroscience research in social and
personality psychology. Pre-conference organized, on behalf of the SPSP training
committee, for the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology,
Albuquerque, NM Memphis, TN.
Arndt, J., (February, 2009). Health research in personality and social psychology. Preconference co-organized with James Shepperd, on behalf of the SPSP training committee,
co-sponsored by the National Cancer Institute, for the annual meeting of the Society for
Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa, FL.
Arndt, J., (January, 2010). Giving them wings to fly: Advice on the mentoring of graduate
students. Symposium co-organized with Michael Robinson, on behalf of the SPSP
training committee, for the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social
Psychology, Las Vegas, NV.
Arndt, J., (June, 2010). How psychological science can make a difference: The case of FDA
tobacco product regulation, health warnings, and beyond. Symposium co-organized with
Ellen Peters, on behalf of the CASPHR working group, for the annual meeting of the
American Psychological Society, Boston, MA.
Arndt, J., (June, 2010). Viewing longstanding issues through novel lenses: Engaging cognitive
skills in risky behavior. Symposium co-organized with William Klein and Ellen Peters,
on behalf of the CASPHR working group, for the annual meeting of the American
Psychological Society, Boston, MA.
Teaching and Mentoring
Courses Taught
Instructor:
Introduction to Social Psychology (undergraduate), Experimental
Methods in Social Psychology (graduate), The Social Psychology of
the Self (undergraduate), Functions and Processes of the Self
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(Graduate).
Guest Lecturer:
Introduction to Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, Psychology of
Death and Dying, Motivation, Psychophysiology, Honors Research
Seminar, Individual and Identity
Primary Advisor for Graduate Students:
Alison Cook
• completed Masters in 2002
• completed PhD in 2006
• most recently in Masters of Legal Studies Program, Arizona State University
Clay Routledge
• completed Masters in 2003
• completed PhD in 2005
• currently Assistant Professor at North Dakota State University
Cathy R. Cox
• completed Masters (University of Colorado, Colorado Spring)
• completed PhD in 2009
• currently Assistant Professor at Texas Christian University
Rebecca Schlegel
• advised dissertation (2009 completion)
• currently Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University
Mathew Vess
• completed Masters in 2007
• completed PhD in 2010
• currently Assistant Professor position at Montana State University
Kenneth Vail
• completed Masters in 2010
• completed PhD in 2014
• starting Assistant Professor position at Cleveland State University
Simon McCabe
• completed Masters in 2011
• fourth year student
Melissa Spina
• first year student
Graduate Student Committees (non-chaired*):
Masters Thesis: Chad Burton, Jennifer Eells, Meli Sheldon, Richard Osbaldiston, Anna
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Hismjatullina, Sean Ransom, Lisa Molix, Erika Henry, Jonathan Oxford,
Thomas Cullen, Jason Trent, Samantha Harrington, Suzanne Nagel, Sarah
Harrison
Comprehensive: Jennifer Eells, Kamila O’Neil, Lisa Molix, Austin Albino, Peter Wessels, Stacy
Tintocalis, Rhodica Ghinescu, Becca Schlegal* (chair), Josh Hicks, Christine
Maldonado, Erika Henry, Sun-A Park, Anastasia Kononova, Yuna Ferguson,
Jonathan Oxford, Charles Nichols, Lindsay Barber, Hyumin Lee, Rajah
Maples-Wallace, Ruixue Zhaoyang, Samantha Heintzelman, Sarah Lust.
Dissertation:
Jennifer Eells, Kamila O’Neil, Lisa Molix, Peter Wessels, Stacy Tintocalis,
Austin Albino, Josh Hicks, Charles Nichols, John Oxford, Rhodica Ghinescu,
V. Bede Agocha, Bruce Bartholow, Erika Henry, Christine Maldonado, Becca
Schlegal* (chair), Yuna Ferguson, Sun-A Park, Jason Trent, Lindsay Barber,
Hyumin Lee, Ruixue Zhaoyang
Undergraduate honors theses supervised
1999-2000
2000-2001
2001-2002
2002-2003
2003-2004
2005-2006
2006-2007
2012-2013
2013-2014
Daniel White
Ryan Brunner (Thorndike Prize); Marcus Johnson; Alison Ramsey
Jennifer Pratt (Sam Brown Award)
Christine Andersen (Psi Chi Regional Award)
Brett Martin
Ann Hecker
Stephen Lagle
Kaitlyn McDaniel
Jacob Schott
Other (non-honors) undergraduate research supervision (1999-present)
University of Missouri-Columbia: approx 200+ students