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Jamie Arndt
Researcher at University of Missouri
Publications - 161
Citations - 16348
Jamie Arndt is an academic researcher from University of Missouri. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mortality salience & Terror management theory. The author has an hindex of 65, co-authored 157 publications receiving 14611 citations. Previous affiliations of Jamie Arndt include University of Missouri System & University of Arizona.
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Why do people need self-esteem? A theoretical and empirical review.
TL;DR: Terror management theory (TMT) is compared with other explanations for why people need self-esteem, and a critique of the most prominent of these, sociometer theory, is provided.
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Nostalgia: Content, Triggers, Functions
TL;DR: Seven methodologically diverse studies addressed 3 fundamental questions about nostalgia and established that nostalgia bolsters social bonds, increases positive self-regard, and generates positive affect.
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Deliver us from Evil: The Effects of Mortality Salience and Reminders of 9/11 on Support for President George W. Bush
Mark J. Landau,Sheldon Solomon,Jeff Greenberg,Florette Cohen,Tom Pyszczynski,Jamie Arndt,Claude H. Miller,Daniel M. Ogilvie,Alison Cook +8 more
TL;DR: Investigation of how thoughts about death and the 9/11 terrorist attacks influence Americans’ attitudes toward current U.S. President George W. Bush found that reminding people of their own mortality increased support for Bush and his counterterrorism policies.
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Terror management and aggression: evidence that mortality salience motivates aggression against worldview-threatening others.
Holly A. McGregor,Joel D. Lieberman,Jeff Greenberg,Sheldon Solomon,Jamie Arndt,Linda Simon,Tom Pyszczynski +6 more
TL;DR: The hypothesis that mortality salience motivates aggression against worldview-threatening others was tested and it was found that derogation and aggression are two alternative modes of responding to MS that serve the same psychological function.
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Suppression, accessibility of death-related thoughts, and cultural worldview defense: Exploring the psychodynamics of terror management.
TL;DR: Study 3 demonstrated that worldview defense in response to MS reduces the delayed increase in death accessibility, suggesting that a person's initial response to conscious thoughts of mortality is to actively suppress death thoughts.