| A terror management analysis of the psychological functions of religion KE Vail, ZK Rothschild, DR Weise, S Solomon, T Pyszczynski, ... Personality and Social Psychology Review 14 (1), 84-94, 2010 | 689 | 2010 |
| When death is good for life: Considering the positive trajectories of terror management KE Vail III, J Juhl, J Arndt, M Vess, C Routledge, BT Rutjens Personality and social psychology review 16 (4), 303-329, 2012 | 326 | 2012 |
| Nostalgia fosters self-continuity: Uncovering the mechanism (social connectedness) and consequence (eudaimonic well-being). C Sedikides, T Wildschut, WY Cheung, C Routledge, EG Hepper, J Arndt, ... Emotion 16 (4), 524, 2016 | 228 | 2016 |
| Exploring the existential function of religion and supernatural agent beliefs among Christians, Muslims, Atheists, and Agnostics KE Vail III, J Arndt, A Abdollahi Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 38 (10), 1288-1300, 2012 | 183 | 2012 |
| The aftermath of destruction: Images of destroyed buildings increase support for war, dogmatism, and death thought accessibility KE Vail III, J Arndt, M Motyl, T Pyszczynski Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 48 (5), 1069-1081, 2012 | 147 | 2012 |
| Terror management theory and research: How the desire for death transcendence drives our strivings for meaning and significance J Greenberg, K Vail, T Pyszczynski Advances in motivation science 1, 85-134, 2014 | 142 | 2014 |
| Drawing attention to global climate change decreases support for war. T Pyszczynski, M Motyl, KE Vail III, G Hirschberger, J Arndt, P Kesebir Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology 18 (4), 354, 2012 | 79* | 2012 |
| Compassionate values and presidential politics: Mortality salience, compassionate values, and support for Barack Obama and John McCain in the 2008 presidential election KE Vail III, J Arndt, M Motyl, T Pyszczynski Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy 9 (1), 255-268, 2009 | 57 | 2009 |
| Support for diplomacy: Peacemaking and militarism as a unidimensional correlate of social, environmental, and political attitudes KE Vail III, M Motyl Peace and Conflict 16 (1), 29-57, 2010 | 55 | 2010 |
| The interactive effect of mortality reminders and tobacco craving on smoking topography. J Arndt, KE Vail III, CR Cox, JL Goldenberg, TM Piasecki, FX Gibbons Health Psychology 32 (5), 525, 2013 | 51 | 2013 |
| The influence of existential threat and tolerance salience on anti‐Islamic attitudes in American politics KE Vail III, E Courtney, J Arndt Political Psychology 40 (5), 1143-1162, 2019 | 45* | 2019 |
| An edifice for enduring personal value: A terror management perspective on the human quest for multilevel meaning. J Arndt, MJ Landau, KE Vail III, M Vess American Psychological Association, 2013 | 45 | 2013 |
| Hails from the crypt: A terror management health model investigation of the effectiveness of health-oriented versus celebrity-oriented endorsements S McCabe, KE Vail III, J Arndt, JL Goldenberg Personality and social psychology bulletin 40 (3), 289-300, 2014 | 39 | 2014 |
| The science of religion, spirituality, and existentialism KE Vail III, C Routledge Academic Press, 2020 | 35 | 2020 |
| Terror management theory and religious belief KE Vail III, M Soenke, B Waggoner Handbook of terror management theory, 259-285, 2019 | 35 | 2019 |
| Self-affirmation attenuates death-thought accessibility after mortality salience, but not among a high post-traumatic stress sample. KE Vail III, A Morgan, L Kahle Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy 10 (1), 112, 2018 | 32 | 2018 |
| An appreciative view of the brighter side of terror management processes KE Vail III, J Juhl Social Sciences 4 (4), 1020-1045, 2015 | 27 | 2015 |
| The impact of mortality awareness on meaning in life among Christians and atheists KE Vail III, M Soenke Religion, Brain & Behavior 8 (1), 44-56, 2018 | 25 | 2018 |
| Anxiety buffer disruption: Worldview threat, death thought accessibility, and worldview defense among low and high posttraumatic stress symptom samples. KE Vail III, EA Goncy, D Edmondson Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy 11 (6), 647, 2019 | 24 | 2019 |
| Existential threat fuels worldview defense, but not after priming autonomy orientation KE Vail III, JP Conti, AN Goad, DE Horner Basic and Applied Social Psychology 42 (3), 150-166, 2020 | 20 | 2020 |
Jamie ArndtUniversity of MissouriVerified email at missouri.edu
