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Overview

Jamie Arndt is affiliated with the University of Missouri in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields primarily within Psychology and Social Sciences, engaging extensively with Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Clinical Psychology, Applied Psychology, and Health as subfields.

Arndt's work focuses on a range of topics including:

  • Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
  • Media Influence and Health
  • Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
  • Impact of Technology on Adolescents

Their frequent publication venues include:

  • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • Psycho-Oncology
  • Group Processes & Intergroup Relations
  • SSM - Population Health
  • Psychological Science

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Arndt include:

  • "Fatalism in the context of COVID-19: Perceiving coronavirus as a death sentence predicts reluctance to perform recommended preventive behaviors" (2020, SSM - Population Health)
  • "Existential isolation, loneliness, and attachment in young adults" (2020, Personality and Individual Differences)
  • "Divergent effects of social media use on meaning in life via loneliness and existential isolation during the coronavirus pandemic" (2022, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships)
  • "Racial Prejudice Predicts Police Militarization" (2022, Psychological Science)
  • "Perceptions of cancer as a death sentence: Tracking trends in public perceptions from 2008 to 2017" (2020, Psycho-Oncology)

Jamie Arndt frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Peter J. Helm
  • Tyler Jimenez
  • Madhwa S. Galgali
  • Megan Edwards
  • Michael N. Bultmann

The breadth of Arndt's work reflects significant engagement with contemporary psychological and social issues, notably death anxiety and social exclusion as well as mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their research includes the psychological impacts of media consumption during crises and explores social issues such as racial prejudice and its societal effects.

Best Publications

  • Why do people need self-esteem? A theoretical and empirical review.

    Tom Pyszczynski;Jeff Greenberg;Sheldon Solomon;Jamie Arndt

  • Nostalgia: Content, Triggers, Functions

    Tim Wildschut;Constantine Sedikides;Jamie Arndt;Clay Routledge

  • 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

  • Terror management and aggression: evidence that mortality salience motivates aggression against worldview-threatening others.

    Holly A. McGregor;Joel D. Lieberman;Jeff Greenberg;Sheldon Solomon

  • Nostalgia Past, Present, and Future

    Constantine Sedikides;Tim Wildschut;Jamie Arndt;Clay Routledge

  • Suppression, accessibility of death-related thoughts, and cultural worldview defense: Exploring the psychodynamics of terror management.

    Jamie Arndt;Jeff Greenberg;Sheldon Solomon;Tom Pyszczynski

  • The Urge to Splurge: A Terror Management Account of Materialism and Consumer Behavior

    Jamie Arndt;Sheldon Solomon;Tim Kasser;Kennon M. Sheldon

  • The past makes the present meaningful: nostalgia as an existential resource.

    Clay Routledge;Jamie Arndt;Tim Wildschut;Constantine Sedikides

  • Literal and symbolic immortality: the effect of evidence of literal immortality on self-esteem striving in response to mortality salience

    Mark Dechesne;Tom Pyszczynski;Jamie Arndt;Sean Ransom

  • Stereotypes and terror management: evidence that mortality salience enhances stereotypic thinking and preferences.

    Jeff Schimel;Linda Simon;Jeff Greenberg;Tom Pyszczynski

  • A blast from the past: The terror management function of nostalgia.

    Clay Routledge;Jamie Arndt;Constantine Sedikides;Tim Wildschut

  • A theoretical and empirical review of the death-thought accessibility concept in terror management research.

    Joseph Hayes;Jeff Schimel;Jamie Arndt;Erik H. Faucher

  • Thine own self: True self-concept accessibility and meaning in life.

    Rebecca J. Schlegel;Joshua A. Hicks;Jamie Arndt;Laura A. King

  • Subliminal Exposure to Death-Related Stimuli Increases Defense of the Cultural Worldview

    Jamie Arndt;Jeff Greenberg;Tom Pyszczynski;Sheldon Solomon

  • Nostalgia as a repository of social connectedness: the role of attachment-related avoidance.

    Tim Wildschut;Constantine Sedikides;Clay Routledge;Jamie Arndt

  • Proximal and Distal Defenses in Response to Reminders of One’s Mortality: Evidence of a Temporal Sequence

    Jeff Greenberg;Jamie Arndt;Linda Simon;Tom Pyszczynski

  • Back to the Future: Nostalgia Increases Optimism

    Wing-Yee Cheung;Tim Wildschut;Constantine Sedikides;Erica G. Hepper

  • Mortality salience and the spreading activation of worldview-relevant constructs: Exploring the cognitive architecture of terror management.

    Jamie Arndt;Jeff L Greenberg;Alison Cook

  • The implications of death for health: a terror management health model for behavioral health promotion.

    Jamie L. Goldenberg;Jamie Arndt

  • To nostalgize: mixing memory with affect and desire

    Constantine Sedikides;Tim Wildschut;Clay Routledge;Jamie Arndt

  • To belong or not to belong, that is the question: terror management and identification with gender and ethnicity.

    Jamie Arndt;Jeff Greenberg;Jeff Schimel;Tom Pyszczynski

Frequent Co-Authors

Clay Routledge
Clay Routledge North Dakota State University
Jeff Greenberg
Jeff Greenberg University of Arizona
Tom Pyszczynski
Tom Pyszczynski University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Jamie L. Goldenberg
Jamie L. Goldenberg University of South Florida
Sheldon Solomon
Sheldon Solomon Skidmore College
Constantine Sedikides
Constantine Sedikides University of Southampton
Tim Wildschut
Tim Wildschut University of Southampton
Jeff Schimel
Jeff Schimel University of Alberta
Mark J. Landau
Mark J. Landau University of Kansas
Kennon M. Sheldon
Kennon M. Sheldon University of Missouri

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