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Overview

Jeff Greenberg is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States and has a research focus primarily within the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences. Their work includes significant contributions to the subfields of Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Health, with additional involvement in Applied Psychology and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's recent research topics address themes such as Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion, Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health, Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology, Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction, Optimism, Hope, and Well-being, Social and Intergroup Psychology, and Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs.

Selected recent publications include:

  • Terror Management Theory and the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020), Journal of Humanistic Psychology
  • Existential isolation, loneliness, and attachment in young adults (2020), Personality and Individual Differences
  • EXISTENTIAL ISOLATION, LONELINESS, DEPRESSION, AND SUICIDE IDEATION IN YOUNG ADULTS (2020), Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology
  • Self-esteem and immortality: Evidence regarding the terror management hypothesis that high self-esteem is associated with a stronger sense of symbolic immortality (2021), Personality and Individual Differences
  • Anticipated Stigma and Dementia-Related Anxiety in Middle-Aged and Older Adults (2020), GeroPsych

Frequent co-authors in Greenberg's research include Dylan E. Horner, Peter J. Helm, Tom Pyszczynski, Uri Lifshin, and Alex Sielaff.

Some of the primary venues where Greenberg's work has been published include the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, Personality and Individual Differences, The Wiley Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences, and Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

Best Publications

  • The Causes and Consequences of a Need for Self-Esteem: A Terror Management Theory

    Jeff Greenberg;Tom Pyszczynski;Sheldon Solomon

  • Genetics of rheumatoid arthritis contributes to biology and drug discovery

    Yukinori Okada;Yukinori Okada;Di Wu;Di Wu;Di Wu;Gosia Trynka;Gosia Trynka;Towfique Raj;Towfique Raj

  • Terror Management Theory of Self-Esteem and Cultural Worldviews: Empirical Assessments and Conceptual Refinements

    Jeff Greenberg;Sheldon Solomon;Tom Pyszczynski

  • Evidence for terror management theory II: The effects of mortality salience on reactions to those who threaten or bolster the cultural worldview.

    Jeff Greenberg;Tom Pyszczynski;Sheldon Solomon;Abram Rosenblatt

  • A Terror Management Theory of Social Behavior: The Psychological Functions of Self-Esteem and Cultural Worldviews

    Sheldon Solomon;Jeff Greenberg;Tom Pyszczynski

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

    Tom Pyszczynski;Jeff Greenberg;Sheldon Solomon;Jamie Arndt

  • Evidence for terror management theory: I. The effects of mortality salience on reactions to those who violate or uphold cultural values.

    Abram Rosenblatt;Jeff Greenberg;Sheldon Solomon;Tom Pyszczynski

  • A dual-process model of defense against conscious and unconscious death-related thoughts: an extension of terror management theory

    Tom Pyszczynski;Jeff Greenberg;Sheldon Solomon

  • Role of consciousness and accessibility of death-related thoughts in mortality salience effects.

    Jeff Greenberg;Tom Pyszczynski;Sheldon Solomon;Linda Simon

  • Self-regulatory perseveration and the depressive self-focusing style: A self-awareness theory of reactive depression.

    Tom Pyszczynski;Jeff Greenberg

  • In the Wake of 9-11: The Psychology of Terror

    Thomas A. Pyszczynski;Sheldon Solomon;Jeff Greenberg

  • Why do people need self-esteem? Converging evidence that self-esteem serves an anxiety-buffering function.

    Jeff Greenberg;Sheldon Solomon;Tom Pyszczynski;Abram Rosenblatt

  • Terror management theory and self-esteem: evidence that increased self-esteem reduces mortality salience effects.

    Eddie Harmon-Jones;Linda Simon;Jeff Greenberg;Tom Pyszczynski

  • 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

  • Toward an integration of cognitive and motivational perspectives on social inference: A biased hypothesis-testing model

    Tom Pyszczynski;Jeff Greenberg

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

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

  • Terror management and tolerance: does mortality salience always intensify negative reactions to others who threaten one's worldview?

    Jeff Greenberg;Linda Simon;Tom Pyszczynski;Sheldon Solomon

  • Why Do We Need What We Need? A Terror Management Perspective on the Roots of Human Social Motivation

    Tom Pyszczynski;Jeff Greenberg;Sheldon Solomon

  • Mortality Salience, Martyrdom, and Military Might: The Great Satan Versus the Axis of Evil

    Tom Pyszczynski;Abdolhossein Abdollahi;Sheldon Solomon;Jeff Greenberg

  • Trivialization: the forgotten mode of dissonance reduction.

    Linda Simon;Jeff Greenberg;Jack Brehm

  • Handbook of experimental existential psychology

    Jeff Greenberg;Sander Leon Koole;Thomas A. Pyszczynski

Frequent Co-Authors

Tom Pyszczynski
Tom Pyszczynski University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Sheldon Solomon
Sheldon Solomon Skidmore College
Jamie Arndt
Jamie Arndt University of Missouri
Mark J. Landau
Mark J. Landau University of Kansas
Jeff Schimel
Jeff Schimel University of Alberta
Jamie L. Goldenberg
Jamie L. Goldenberg University of South Florida
Eva Jonas
Eva Jonas University of Salzburg
Rex A. Wright
Rex A. Wright University of North Texas
Sander L. Koole
Sander L. Koole Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Eddie Harmon-Jones
Eddie Harmon-Jones University of New South Wales

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