Pyszczynski, Tom

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

Greenberg, J., Pyszczynski, T., & Solomon, S. (1986) · Public Self and Private Self

Death Anxiety and Social ExclusionPersonality Traits and Psychology

Cited by 2,326

Terror management theory of self-esteem and cultural worldviews: empirical assessments and conceptual refinements

Greenberg, J., Solomon, S., & Pyszczynski, T. (1997) · Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

Death Anxiety and Social ExclusionDeath, Funerary Practices, and Mourning

Cited by 1,505

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

Greenberg, J., Pyszczynski, T., Solomon, S., Rosenblatt, A., Veeder, M., Kirkland, S., & Lyon, D. (1990) · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Death Anxiety and Social ExclusionSocial and Intergroup Psychology

Cited by 1,412

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

Pyszczynski, T., Greenberg, J., & Solomon, S. (1999) · Psychological Review

Death Anxiety and Social ExclusionDeath, Funerary Practices, and Mourning

Cited by 1,390

Why Do People Need Self-Esteem? A Theoretical and Empirical Review.

Pyszczynski, T., Greenberg, J., Solomon, S., Arndt, J., & Schimel, J. (2004) · Psychological Bulletin

Death Anxiety and Social ExclusionPersonality Traits and Psychology

Cited by 1,367

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

Rosenblatt, A., Greenberg, J., Solomon, S., Pyszczynski, T., & Lyon, D. (1989) · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Death Anxiety and Social ExclusionDeath, Funerary Practices, and Mourning

Cited by 1,323

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

Solomon, S., Greenberg, J., & Pyszczynski, T. (1991) · Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

Death Anxiety and Social ExclusionSocial and Intergroup Psychology

Cited by 1,296

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

Greenberg, J., Pyszczynski, T., Solomon, S., Simon, L., & Breus, M. (1994) · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Death Anxiety and Social ExclusionDeath, Funerary Practices, and Mourning

Cited by 901

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

Greenberg, J., Solomon, S., Pyszczynski, T., Rosenblatt, A., Burling, J., Lyon, D., Simon, L., & Pinel, E. (1992) · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Personality Traits and PsychologyDeath Anxiety and Social Exclusion

Cited by 865

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

Pyszczynski, T., & Greenberg, J. (1987) · Psychological Bulletin

Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive ProcessesPsychological Treatments and Disorders

Cited by 825

Terror management theory and self-esteem: Evidence that increased self-esteem reduced mortality salience effects.

Harmon-Jones, E., Simon, L., Greenberg, J., Pyszczynski, T., Solomon, S., & McGregor, H. (1997) · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Death Anxiety and Social ExclusionDeath, Funerary Practices, and Mourning

Cited by 677

Deliver us from Evil: The Effects of Mortality Salience and Reminders of 9/11 on Support for President George W. Bush

Landau, M. J., Solomon, S., Greenberg, J., Cohen, F., Pyszczynski, T., Arndt, J., Miller, C. H., Ogilvie, D. M., & Cook, A. (2004) · Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Death Anxiety and Social ExclusionTerrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence

Cited by 663

Beyond the ‘east–west’ dichotomy: Global variation in cultural models of selfhood.

Vignoles, V. L., Owe, E., Becker, M., Smith, P. B., Easterbrook, M. J., Brown, R., González, R., Didier, N., Carrasco, D., Cadena, M. P., et al. (2016) · Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Cultural Differences and ValuesSocial and Intergroup Psychology

Cited by 601

Thirty Years of Terror Management Theory

Pyszczynski, T., Solomon, S., & Greenberg, J. (2015) · Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

Death Anxiety and Social ExclusionDeath, Funerary Practices, and Mourning

Cited by 509

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

Pyszczynski, T., Greenberg, J., & Solomon, S. (1997) · Psychological Inquiry

Death Anxiety and Social ExclusionSocial and Intergroup Psychology

Cited by 497

Terror management and tolerance: Does mortality salience always intensify negative reactions to others who threaten one’s worldview?

Greenberg, J., Simon, L., Pyszczynski, T., Solomon, S., & Chatel, D. (1992) · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Death Anxiety and Social ExclusionSocial and Intergroup Psychology

Cited by 487

A Terror Management Analysis of the Psychological Functions of Religion

Vail, K. E., Rothschild, Z. K., Weise, D. R., Solomon, S., Pyszczynski, T., & Greenberg, J. (2010) · Personality and Social Psychology Review

Death Anxiety and Social ExclusionReligion, Spirituality, and Psychology

Cited by 461

Mortality salience, martyrdom, and military might: The Great Satan versus the Axis of Evil

Pyszczynski, T., Abdollahi, A., Solomon, S., Greenberg, J., Cohen, F., & Weise, D. (2006) · Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Death Anxiety and Social ExclusionTerrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence

Cited by 432

The Scrooge Effect: Evidence that mortality salience increases prosocial attitudes and behavior

Jonas, E., Schimel, J., Greenberg, J., & Pyszczynski, T. (2002) · Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Death Anxiety and Social ExclusionDeath, Funerary Practices, and Mourning

Cited by 420

Terror management and aggression: Evidence that mortality salience motivates aggression against worldview-threatening others

McGregor, H. A., Lieberman, J. D., Greenberg, J., Solomon, S., Arndt, J., Simon, L., & Pyszczynski, T. (1998) · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Death Anxiety and Social ExclusionSocial and Intergroup Psychology

Cited by 403

Terror management theory and the COVID-19 pandemic

Pyszczynski, T., Lockett, M., Greenberg, J., & Solomon, S. (2021) · Journal of Humanistic Psychology

Death Anxiety and Social ExclusionCOVID-19 and Mental Health

Cited by 389

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

Dechesne, M., Pyszczynski, T., Arndt, J., Ransom, S., Sheldon, K. M., van Knippenberg, A., & Janssen, J. (2003) · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Death Anxiety and Social ExclusionDeath, Funerary Practices, and Mourning

Cited by 375

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

Schimel, J., Simon, L., Greenberg, J., Pyszczynski, T., Solomon, S., Waxmonsky, J., & Arndt, J. (1999) · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Death Anxiety and Social ExclusionSocial and Intergroup Psychology

Cited by 345

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

Goldenberg, J. L., Pyszczynski, T., Greenberg, J., Solomon, S., Kluck, B., & Cornwell, R. (2001) · Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Death Anxiety and Social ExclusionDeath, Funerary Practices, and Mourning

Cited by 323