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105
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481
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Tom Pyszczynski publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Tom Pyszczynski sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 256 publications — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Tom Pyszczynski D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Tom Pyszczynski sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 105 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Tom Pyszczynski is a researcher affiliated with the University of Colorado Colorado Springs in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on psychology, with considerable contributions in social sciences. The main areas of specialization include social psychology, clinical psychology, sociology and political science, applied psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

Their research topics encompass a range of psychological phenomena, including:

  • Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
  • Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment

Tom Pyszczynski has published articles in several academic journals, with recent papers covering different aspects of psychology related to contemporary social issues and health. Notable publications include:

  • "Terror Management Theory and the COVID-19 Pandemic," 2020, Journal of Humanistic Psychology
  • "Psychological Science in the Wake of COVID-19: Social, Methodological, and Metascientific Considerations," 2021, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • "Motivated reasoning: Election integrity beliefs, outcome acceptance, and polarization before, during, and after the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election," 2022, Motivation and Emotion
  • "Applying terror management theory to patients with life-threatening illness: a systematic review," 2023, BMC Palliative Care
  • "The role of perceived level of threat, reactance proneness, political orientation, and coronavirus salience on health behavior intentions," 2021, Psychology and Health

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Tom Pyszczynski include:

  • Jeff Greenberg
  • McKenzie Lockett
  • Sheldon Solomon
  • Elizabeth C. Pinel
  • Peter J. Helm

The venues where this researcher commonly publishes include:

  • Journal of Humanistic Psychology
  • Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • BMC Palliative Care
  • Motivation and Emotion
  • Psychology and Health

In total, Tom Pyszczynski has contributed to 38 publications in psychology and 9 in social sciences, with a significant focus on social psychology and clinical psychology. Their scholarly work addresses critical issues that intersect human behavior, health, and the psychological impact of social and existential threats.

Best Publications

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

    Jeff Greenberg;Tom Pyszczynski;Sheldon Solomon

  • 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

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

    Jamie Arndt;Jeff Greenberg;Sheldon Solomon;Tom Pyszczynski

  • Handbook of experimental existential psychology

    Jeff Greenberg;Sander Leon Koole;Thomas A. Pyszczynski

  • The Cultural Animal: Twenty Years of Terror Management Theory and Research.

    Sheldon Solomon;Jeff Greenberg;Tom Pyszczynski

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeff Greenberg
Jeff Greenberg University of Arizona
Sheldon Solomon
Sheldon Solomon Skidmore College
Jamie Arndt
Jamie Arndt University of Missouri
Gilad Hirschberger
Gilad Hirschberger Reichman University
Jamie L. Goldenberg
Jamie L. Goldenberg University of South Florida
Jeff Schimel
Jeff Schimel University of Alberta
Mark J. Landau
Mark J. Landau University of Kansas
Tsachi Ein-Dor
Tsachi Ein-Dor Reichman University
Peter B. Smith
Peter B. Smith University of Sussex
Rupert Brown
Rupert Brown University of Sussex

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