Published Work

Articles

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., Waxmonsky, J., & Arndt, J. (1999). Stereotypes and terror management: Evidence that mortality salience enhances stereotypic thinking and preferences. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 905-926.

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

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.

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.

Greenberg, J., Schimel, J., & Martens, A. (2001). Sympathy for the Devil: Evidence that     reminding Whites of their mortality promotes more favorable reactions to White racists. Motivation and Emotion, 25, 113-133.

Schimel, J., Arndt, J., Pyszczynski, T., & Greenberg, J. (2001). Being accepted for who we are: Evidence that social validation of the intrinsic self reduces general defensiveness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80, 35-52.

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

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.

Greenberg, J., Schimel, J., & Martens, A. (2002). Ageism: Denying the face of the future. In T.D. Nelson (Ed.) Ageism. Boston, Mass: MIT Press.

Jonas, E., Schimel, J., Greenberg, J., & Pyszczynski, T. (2002). The Scrooge effect: Evidence that mortality salience increases prosocial attitudes and behavior. Personality
and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28, 1342-1353.

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.

Schimel, J., Greenberg, J., & Martens, A. (2003). Evidence that projection of a feared trait can serve a defensive function. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29, 969-979.

Arndt, J., Schimel, J., & Goldenberg, J. (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.

Williams, T. J., Schimel J., & Gillespie, M. (2003). The Security of Obedience: Evidence that mortality salience promotes conformity to authority among individuals raised by authoritarian parents. In J. Gifford & G. Zezulka-Mailloux. Eds. Culture and the State: Vol. 4 Alternative Interventions. Edmonton, AB: University of Alberta CRC Studio.

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.

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

Pyszczynski, T., Greenberg, J., Solomon, S., Arndt, J., & Schimel, J. Converging Toward an Integrated Theory of Self-Esteem: Reply to Crocker and Nuer (2004), Ryan and Deci (2004), and Leary (2004). Psychological Bulletin, 130, 483-488.

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.

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

Martens, A., Johns, M., Greenberg, J., & Schimel, J. (2006). Combating stereotype threat: The effect of self-affirmation and emotional expression on women’s math performance. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 42, 236-243.

Strachman, A., & Schimel, J. (2006). Terror management and close relationships: Evidence that mortality salience reduces commitment among partners with different worldviews. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 23, 965-978.

Schimel, J., Wohl, M., & Williams, T. (2006). Terror management and trait empathy: Evidence that mortality salience promotes reactions of forgiveness among people with
high (vs. low) trait empathy. Motivation and Emotion, 30, 217-227.

Arndt, J., Schimel, J., & Cox, C. R. (2006). A matter of life and death: Terror management and the existential relevance of self-esteem. In C. Sedikides & S. Spencer (Eds.). The self in social psychology. Psychology Press: NY.

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

Strachan, E., Schimel, J., Arndt, J., Solomon, S., Greenberg, J., Pyszczynski, P. (2007). Terror mismanagement: Evidence that mortality salience exacerbates phobic and compulsive Behaviors. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 1137-1151.

Hayes, J., Schimel, J., & Williams, T. J. (2008). Fighting death with death: The buffering effects of learning that worldview violators have died. Psychological Science, 19, 501-507.

Hayes, J., Schimel, J., & Williams, T. J. (2008). Evidence for the death thought accessibility hypothesis II: Threatening self-esteem increases the accessibility of death thoughts.
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 600-613.

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

Williams, T. J., Schimel, J., & Hayes, J. (2009). The moderating role of extrinsic contingency focus on reactions to threat. European Journal of Social Psychology.

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