Courtney S. Sanders

TL;DR: This paper found that mental simulations involving familiar settings were of greater subjective quality than simulations involving unfamiliar settings, and that simulating future events in familiar (vs. unfamiliar) settings indirectly increased the perceived meaningfulness of life.

TL;DR: This article tested whether women's sense of authenticity can be compromised by the expression of masculine characteristics and whether feelings of authenticity directly or indirectly connect masculine expreceives with masculine attributes and beliefs.

TL;DR: The authors explored some of the ways that TMT has been used to understand the psychological processes that shape how concerns about personal mortality influence growth-oriented outcomes and the perceived meaningfulness of one's life.

TL;DR: Initial evidence is provided that blunted cardiac reactivity may be a precursor to low levels of social participation, as separate regression analyses for each cardiovascular variable demonstrated that lower cardiovascular reactivity was associated with less social participation.

TL;DR: Two studies examined (what seemed to be) a relatively straightforward prediction that mortality salience would increase belief in a true self as discussed by the authors, which was based on existing evidence that th...