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Overview

Jeff Schimel is affiliated with the University of Alberta in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with a focus on cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, clinical psychology, and health. The scientist's work examines neural dynamics and brain function, functional brain connectivity, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, as well as topics related to death anxiety, social exclusion, grief, bereavement, mental health, and the intersection of religion, spirituality, and psychology.

Their notable publications include:

  • Resting-state networks of believers and non-believers: An EEG microstate study (2022), published in Biological Psychology
  • Long live A(me)rica! An examination of the interplay between nationalistic-symbolic immortality striving and belief in life after death (2021), published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Jeff Schimel has published in the following venues:

  • Biological Psychology
  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Andy Scott
  • Kyle Nash
  • Tobias Kleinert
  • Josh Leota
  • Michael Sharp

Their research topics cover:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
  • Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
  • Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology

Best Publications

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

    Tom Pyszczynski;Jeff Greenberg;Sheldon Solomon;Jamie Arndt

  • Combating stereotype threat: The effect of self-affirmation on women's intellectual performance.

    Andy Martens;Michael Johns;Jeff Greenberg;Jeff Schimel

  • The Scrooge Effect: Evidence that Mortality Salience Increases Prosocial Attitudes and Behavior

    Eva Jonas;Jeff Schimel;Jeff Greenberg;Tom Pyszczynski

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

    Jeff Schimel;Linda Simon;Jeff Greenberg;Tom Pyszczynski

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

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

  • Is death really the worm at the core? Converging evidence that worldview threat increases death-thought accessibility

    Jeff Schimel;Joseph Hayes;Todd Williams;Jesse Jahrig

  • 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

  • Ageism: Denying the face of the future.

    Jeff Greenberg;Jeff Schimel;Andy Martens

  • Terror management and the vicissitudes of sports fan affiliation: The effects of mortality salience on optimism and fan identification.

    Mark Dechesne;Jeff Greenberg;Jamie Arndt;Jeff Schimel

  • 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

  • Being accepted for who we are: evidence that social validation of the intrinsic self reduces general defensiveness.

    Jeff Schimel;Jamie Arndt;Tom Pyszczynski;Jeff L Greenberg

  • Ageism and Death: Effects of Mortality Salience and Perceived Similarity to Elders on Reactions to Elderly People:

    Andy Martens;Jeff Greenberg;Jeff Schimel;Mark J. Landau

  • Terror Mismanagement: Evidence That Mortality Salience Exacerbates Phobic and Compulsive Behaviors

    Eric Strachan;Jeff Schimel;Jamie Arndt;Todd Williams

  • Creativity and terror management: Evidence that creative activity increases guilt and social projection following mortality salience

    Jamie Arndt;Jeff Greenberg;Sheldon Solomon;Tom Pyszczynski

  • Not all self-affirmations were created equal: The cognitive and social benefits of affirming the intrinsic (vs. extrinsic) self

    Jeff Schimel;Jamie Arndt;Katherine M. Banko;Alison Cook

  • The Intrinsic Self and Defensiveness: Evidence that Activating the Intrinsic Self Reduces Self-Handicapping and Conformity:

    Jamie Arndt;Jeff Schimel;Jeff Greenberg;Tom Pyszczynski

  • Sympathy for the Devil: Evidence That Reminding Whites of Their Mortality Promotes More Favorable Reactions to White Racists

    Jeff Greenberg;Jeff Schimel;Andy Martens;Sheldon Solomon

  • Evidence for the DTA hypothesis II: Threatening self-esteem increases death-thought accessibility

    Joseph Hayes;Jeff Schimel;Erik H. Faucher;Todd J. Williams

  • Clarifying the Function of Mortality Salience-Induced Worldview Defense: Renewed Suppression or Reduced Accessibility of Death-Related Thoughts?

    Jeff Greenberg;Jamie Arndt;Jeff Schimel;Tom Pyszczynski

  • Running from the shadow: psychological distancing from others to deny characteristics people fear in themselves.

    J. Schimel;T. Psyszczynski;Jeff Greenberg;H. O'Mahen

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeff Greenberg
Jeff Greenberg University of Arizona
Jamie Arndt
Jamie Arndt University of Missouri
Tom Pyszczynski
Tom Pyszczynski University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Sheldon Solomon
Sheldon Solomon Skidmore College
Mark J. Landau
Mark J. Landau University of Kansas
Jamie L. Goldenberg
Jamie L. Goldenberg University of South Florida
Eva Jonas
Eva Jonas University of Salzburg
Michael J. A. Wohl
Michael J. A. Wohl Carleton University
John J.B. Allen
John J.B. Allen University of Arizona
Chris G. Sibley
Chris G. Sibley University of Auckland

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