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Overview

Jamie L. Goldenberg is affiliated with the University of South Florida in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and social sciences, with a focus on social psychology, clinical psychology, sociology and political science, experimental and cognitive psychology, and literary theory. The scientist's work covers 22 publications in psychology and 9 in social sciences, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach.

The main research topics associated with Goldenberg include:

  • Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Media Influence and Health
  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
  • Intimate Partner and Family Violence

Goldenberg's publications appear regularly in a range of academic journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • British Journal of Social Psychology
  • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • Psychology of Popular Media
  • Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • Applied Psychology Health and Well-Being

Selected recent papers by Goldenberg encompass research on psychological and social phenomena, including the following titles along with their publication years and venues:

  • "Supporting the Dehumanization Hypothesis, but Under What Conditions? A Commentary on Over (2021)," 2020, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • "The contagion of mortality: A terror management health model for pandemics," 2020, British Journal of Social Psychology
  • "Together we can slow the spread of COVID-19: The interactive effects of priming collectivism and mortality salience on virus-related health behaviour intentions," 2021, British Journal of Social Psychology
  • "When looking 'hot' means not feeling cold: Evidence that self-objectification inhibits feelings of being cold," 2021, British Journal of Social Psychology
  • "Selfie-Evaluation: A Meta-Analysis of the Relationship Between Selfie Behaviors and Self-Evaluations," 2023, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Collaborative work features co-authors contributing on numerous occasions alongside Goldenberg. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Emily P. Courtney
  • Roxanne N. Felig
  • Kaitlyn Ligman
  • Patrick Boyd
  • Tomi-Ann Roberts

Best Publications

  • Attachment, self-esteem, worldviews, and terror management: evidence for a tripartite security system.

    Joshua Hart;Phillip R. Shaver;Jamie L. Goldenberg

  • I am not an animal: mortality salience, disgust, and the denial of human creatureliness.

    Jamie L. Goldenberg;Tom Pyszczynski;Jeff L Greenberg;Sheldon Solomon

  • Objectifying Sarah Palin: Evidence that objectification causes women to be perceived as less competent and less fully human

    Nathan A. Heflick;Jamie L. Goldenberg

  • A function of form: Terror management and structuring the social world

    Mark J. Landau;Michael Johns;Jeff Greenberg;Tom Pyszczynski

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

    Jamie L. Goldenberg;Jamie Arndt

  • From Women to Objects: Appearance Focus, Target Gender, and Perceptions of Warmth, Morality and Competence

    Nathan A. Heflick;Jamie L. Goldenberg;Douglas P. Cooper;Elisa Puvia

  • Fleeing the body: A terror management perspective on the problem of human corporeality

    Jamie L. Goldenberg;Jamie L. Goldenberg;Tom Pyszczynski;Jeff Greenberg;Sheldon Solomon

  • A Terror Management Perspective on Ageism

    Andy Martens;Jamie L. Goldenberg;Jeff Greenberg

  • The body as a source of self-esteem: the effect of mortality salience on identification with one's body, interest in sex, and appearance monitoring.

    Jamie L. Goldenberg;Shannon K. McCoy;Shannon K. McCoy;Tom Pyszczynski;Jeff Greenberg

  • Death, sex, love, and neuroticism: why is sex such a problem?

    Jamie L. Goldenberg;Tom Pyszczynski;Shannon K. McCoy;Jeff Greenberg

  • A Time to Tan: Proximal and Distal Effects of Mortality Salience on Sun Exposure Intentions

    Clay Routledge;Jamie Arndt;Jamie L. Goldenberg

  • “Feminine Protection”: The Effects of Menstruation on Attitudes Towards Women

    Tomi-Ann Roberts;Jamie L. Goldenberg;Cathleen Power;Tom Pyszczynski

  • Death Can Be Good for Your Health: Fitness Intentions as a Proximal and Distal Defense Against Mortality Salience

    Jamie Arndt;Jeff Schimel;Jamie L. Goldenberg

  • Cancer and the threat of death : The cognitive dynamics of death-thought suppression and its impact on behavioral health intentions

    Jamie Arndt;Alison Cook;Jamie L. Goldenberg;Cathy R. Cox

  • Gender Differences in the Willingness to Engage in Risky Behavior: A Terror Management Perspective

    Gilad Hirschberger;Victor Florian;Mario Mikulincer;Jamie L. Goldenberg

  • Understanding human ambivalence about sex: The effects of stripping sex of meaning

    Jamie L. Goldenberg;Cathy R. Cox;Tom Pyszczynski;Jeff Greenberg

  • From the grave to the cradle: evidence that mortality salience engenders a desire for offspring.

    Arnaud Wisman;Jamie L. Goldenberg

  • Disgust, creatureliness and the accessibility of death-related thoughts

    Cathy R. Cox;Jamie L. Goldenberg;Tom Pyszczynski;David Weise

  • The siren's call: terror management and the threat of men's sexual attraction to women.

    Mark J. Landau;Jamie L. Goldenberg;Jeff Greenberg;Omri Gillath

  • Dying To Be Thin: The Effects of Mortality Salience and Body Mass Index on Restricted Eating Among Women

    Jamie L. Goldenberg;Jamie Arndt;Joshua Hart;Megan Brown

Frequent Co-Authors

Jamie Arndt
Jamie Arndt University of Missouri
Tom Pyszczynski
Tom Pyszczynski University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Jeff Greenberg
Jeff Greenberg University of Arizona
Clay Routledge
Clay Routledge North Dakota State University
Sheldon Solomon
Sheldon Solomon Skidmore College
Mark J. Landau
Mark J. Landau University of Kansas
Frederick X. Gibbons
Frederick X. Gibbons University of Connecticut
Omri Gillath
Omri Gillath University of Kansas
Gilad Hirschberger
Gilad Hirschberger Reichman University
Phillip R. Shaver
Phillip R. Shaver University of California, Davis

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