Mark J. Landau, Ph.D. - Publications

Affiliations: 
Psychology University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 
Area:
terror management theory

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2020 Axt JR, Landau MJ, Kay AC. The Psychological Appeal of Fake-News Attributions. Psychological Science. 31: 848-857. PMID 32672128 DOI: 10.1177/0956797620922785  0.35
2020 Vail KE, Sullivan D, Landau MJ, Greenberg J. Applying Existential Social Psychology to Mental Health Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology. 39: 229-237. DOI: 10.1521/Jscp.2020.39.4.229  0.486
2019 Landau MJ, Cameron LD, Arndt J, Hamilton WK, Swanson TJ, Bultmann M. Beneath the surface: Abstract construal mindset increases receptivity to metaphors in health communications. Social Cognition. 37: 314-340. PMID 33828353 DOI: 10.1521/soco.2019.37.3.314  0.58
2018 Landau MJ, Arndt J, Cameron LD. Do Metaphors in Health Messages Work? Exploring Emotional and Cognitive Factors. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 74: 135-149. PMID 33833472 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2017.09.006  0.566
2018 Landau MJ. Using Metaphor to Find Meaning in Life. Review of General Psychology : Journal of Division 1, of the American Psychological Association. 22: 62-72. PMID 29632431 DOI: 10.1037/Gpr0000105  0.427
2018 Spina M, Arndt J, Landau MJ, Cameron LD. Enhancing Health Message Framing With Metaphor and Cultural Values: Impact on Latinas' Cervical Cancer Screening. Annals of Behavioral Medicine : a Publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine. 52: 106-115. PMID 29538628 DOI: 10.1093/Abm/Kax009  0.559
2018 Baumeister RF, Landau MJ. Finding the Meaning of Meaning: Emerging Insights on Four Grand Questions Review of General Psychology. 22: 1-10. DOI: 10.1037/Gpr0000145  0.308
2018 Landau MJ, Khenfer J, Keefer LA, Swanson TJ, Kay AC. When and why does belief in a controlling God strengthen goal commitment? Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 75: 71-82. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jesp.2017.11.012  0.721
2018 Landau MJ, Arndt J, Cameron LD. Do metaphors in health messages work? Exploring emotional and cognitive factors Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 74: 135-149. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jesp.2017.09.006  0.607
2017 Zestcott CA, Stone J, Landau MJ. The Role of Conscious Attention in How Weight Serves as an Embodiment of Importance. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin. 146167217727505. PMID 28914138 DOI: 10.1177/0146167217727505  0.355
2017 Ma A, Landau MJ, Narayanan J, Kay AC. Thought-Control Difficulty Motivates Structure Seeking. Journal of Experimental Psychology. General. PMID 28627909 DOI: 10.1037/Xge0000282  0.343
2017 Baldwin M, Landau MJ, Swanson TJ. Metaphors can give life meaning Self and Identity. 17: 163-193. DOI: 10.1080/15298868.2017.1368696  0.32
2017 Landau MJ, Arndt J, Swanson TJ, Bultmann MN. Why life speeds up: Chunking and the passage of autobiographical time Self and Identity. 17: 294-309. DOI: 10.1080/15298868.2017.1308878  0.619
2017 Landau MJ, Barrera J, Keefer LA. On the road: Combining possible identities and metaphor to motivate disadvantaged middle-school students Metaphor and Symbol. 32: 276-290. DOI: 10.1080/10926488.2017.1384271  0.658
2017 Landau MJ, Keefer LA, Swanson TJ. “Undoing” a Rhetorical Metaphor: Testing the Metaphor Extension Strategy Metaphor and Symbol. 32: 63-83. DOI: 10.1080/10926488.2017.1297619  0.708
2016 Keefer LA, Landau MJ. Metaphor and analogy in everyday problem solving. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews. Cognitive Science. PMID 27582354 DOI: 10.1002/Wcs.1407  0.659
2016 Sullivan D, Stewart SA, Landau MJ, Liu S, Yang Q, Diefendorf J. Exploring Repressive Suffering Construal as a Function of Collectivism and Social Morality Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 47: 903-917. DOI: 10.1177/0022022116655963  0.404
2016 White MH, Landau MJ. Metaphor in intergroup relations Social and Personality Psychology Compass. 10: 707-721. DOI: 10.1111/Spc3.12292  0.417
2015 Landau MJ, Kay AC, Whitson JA. Compensatory control and the appeal of a structured world. Psychological Bulletin. 141: 694-722. PMID 25688696 DOI: 10.1037/A0038703  0.398
2015 Baldwin M, Biernat M, Landau MJ. Remembering the real me: Nostalgia offers a window to the intrinsic self. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 108: 128-47. PMID 25347125 DOI: 10.1037/A0038033  0.403
2015 Keefer LA, Landau MJ. Frighteningly Similar: Relationship Metaphors Elicit Defensive Information Processing Social Psychological and Personality Science. 6: 931-939. DOI: 10.1177/1948550615597975  0.675
2015 Landau MJ, Nelson NM, Keefer LA. Divergent Effects of Metaphoric Company Logos: Do They Convey What the Company Does or What I Need? Metaphor and Symbol. 30: 314-338. DOI: 10.1080/10926488.2015.1074806  0.693
2015 Rothschild ZK, Landau MJ, Keefer LA, Sullivan D. Another’s punishment cleanses the self: Evidence for a moral cleansing function of punishing transgressors Motivation and Emotion. 39: 722-741. DOI: 10.1007/S11031-015-9487-9  0.785
2014 Sullivan D, Landau MJ, Young IF, Stewart SA. The dramaturgical perspective in relation to self and culture. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 107: 767-90. PMID 25243413 DOI: 10.1037/A0037904  0.434
2014 Landau MJ, Oyserman D, Keefer LA, Smith GC. The college journey and academic engagement: how metaphor use enhances identity-based motivation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 106: 679-98. PMID 24749818 DOI: 10.1037/A0036414  0.701
2014 Kay AC, Laurin K, Fitzsimons GM, Landau MJ. A functional basis for structure-seeking: exposure to structure promotes willingness to engage in motivated action. Journal of Experimental Psychology. General. 143: 486-91. PMID 24059844 DOI: 10.1037/A0034462  0.37
2014 Keefer LA, Landau MJ, Sullivan D, Rothschild ZK. The object of affection: Subjectivity uncertainty increases objectification in close relationships Social Cognition. 32: 484-504. DOI: 10.1521/Soco.2014.32.5.484  0.784
2014 Miller CH, Ivanov B, Landau MJ, Masad D, Semmler S, White JA. Differences in the Experience and Expression of Sexual Jealousy: A Terror Management Theory Perspective Universal Journal of Psychology. 2: 65-75. DOI: 10.13189/Ujp.2014.020203  0.381
2014 Keefer LA, Landau MJ, Sullivan D. Non-human support: Broadening the scope of attachment theory Social and Personality Psychology Compass. 8: 524-535. DOI: 10.1111/Spc3.12129  0.721
2014 Landau MJ, Keefer LA. This is like that: Metaphors in public discourse shape attitudes Social and Personality Psychology Compass. 8: 463-473. DOI: 10.1111/Spc3.12125  0.707
2014 Baldwin M, Landau MJ. Exploring Nostalgia's Influence on Psychological Growth Self and Identity. 13: 162-177. DOI: 10.1080/15298868.2013.772320  0.38
2014 Keefer LA, Landau MJ, Sullivan D, Rothschild ZK. Embodied metaphor and abstract problem solving: Testing a metaphoric fit hypothesis in the health domain Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 55: 12-20. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jesp.2014.05.012  0.76
2014 Landau MJ, Keefer LA, Rothschild ZK. Epistemic motives moderate the effect of metaphoric framing on attitudes Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 53: 125-138. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jesp.2014.03.009  0.795
2013 Sullivan D, Landau MJ, Branscombe NR, Rothschild ZK, Cronin TJ. Self-Harm focus leads to greater collective guilt: The case of the U.S.-Iraq conflict Political Psychology. 34: 573-587. DOI: 10.1111/Pops.12010  0.739
2013 Burke BL, Kosloff S, Landau MJ. Death goes to the polls: A meta-analysis of mortality salience effects on political attitudes Political Psychology. 34: 183-200. DOI: 10.1111/Pops.12005  0.349
2013 Sullivan D, Landau MJ, Rothschild ZK, Keefer LA. Searching for the root of all evil: An existential-sociological perspective on political enemyship and scapegoating Power, Politics, and Paranoia: Why People Are Suspicious of Their Leaders. 292-311. DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139565417.020  0.75
2013 Rothschild ZK, Landau MJ, Molina LE, Branscombe NR, Sullivan D. Displacing blame over the ingroup's harming of a disadvantaged group can fuel moral outrage at a third-party scapegoat Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 49: 898-906. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jesp.2013.05.005  0.744
2012 Sullivan D, Landau MJ, Kay AC, Rothschild ZK. Collectivism and the meaning of suffering. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 103: 1023-39. PMID 23046067 DOI: 10.1037/A0030382  0.742
2012 Rothschild ZK, Landau MJ, Sullivan D, Keefer LA. A dual-motive model of scapegoating: displacing blame to reduce guilt or increase control. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 102: 1148-63. PMID 22545745 DOI: 10.1037/A0027413  0.792
2012 Sullivan D, Landau MJ, Branscombe NR, Rothschild ZK. Competitive victimhood as a response to accusations of ingroup harm doing. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 102: 778-95. PMID 22229457 DOI: 10.1037/A0026573  0.72
2012 Sullivan D, Landau MJ, Kay AC. Toward a comprehensive understanding of existential threat: Insights from paul tillich Social Cognition. 30: 734-757. DOI: 10.1521/Soco.2012.30.6.734  0.475
2012 Ismail I, Martens A, Landau MJ, Greenberg J, Weise DR. Exploring the Effects of the Naturalistic Fallacy: Evidence That Genetic Explanations Increase the Acceptability of Killing and Male Promiscuity Journal of Applied Social Psychology. 42: 735-750. DOI: 10.1111/J.1559-1816.2011.00815.X  0.731
2012 Reysen S, Landau MJ, Branscombe NR. Copycatting as a Threat to Public Identity Basic and Applied Social Psychology. 34: 226-235. DOI: 10.1080/01973533.2012.674418  0.357
2012 Landau MJ, Sullivan D, Keefer LA, Rothschild ZK, Osman MR. Subjectivity uncertainty theory of objectification: Compensating for uncertainty about how to positively relate to others by downplaying their subjective attributes Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 48: 1234-1246. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jesp.2012.05.003  0.79
2012 Keefer LA, Landau MJ, Rothschild ZK, Sullivan D. Attachment to objects as compensation for close others' perceived unreliability Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 48: 912-917. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jesp.2012.02.007  0.802
2011 Rothschild ZK, Landau MJ, Sullivan D. By the numbers: Structure-seeking individuals prefer quantitative over qualitative representations of personal value to compensate for the threat of unclear performance contingencies. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin. 37: 1508-21. PMID 21778467 DOI: 10.1177/0146167211415421  0.754
2011 Landau MJ, Keefer LA, Meier BP. Wringing the perceptual rags: reply to IJzerman and Koole (2011). Psychological Bulletin. 137: 362-5. PMID 21355635 DOI: 10.1037/A0022457  0.695
2011 Landau MJ, Kosloff S, Schmeichel BJ. Imbuing everyday actions with meaning in response to existential threat Self and Identity. 10: 64-76. DOI: 10.1080/15298860903557243  0.468
2011 Gillath O, Landau MJ, Selcuk E, Goldenberg JL. Effects of low survivability cues and participant sex on physiological and behavioral responses to sexual stimuli Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 47: 1219-1224. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jesp.2011.05.003  0.31
2011 Shepherd S, Kay AC, Landau MJ, Keefer LA. Evidence for the specificity of control motivations in worldview defense: Distinguishing compensatory control from uncertainty management and terror management processes Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 47: 949-958. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jesp.2011.03.026  0.725
2011 Keefer LA, Landau MJ, Sullivan D, Rothschild ZK. Exploring metaphor's epistemic function: Uncertainty moderates metaphor-consistent priming effects on social perceptions Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 47: 657-660. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jesp.2011.02.002  0.808
2011 Landau MJ, Vess M, Arndt J, Rothschild ZK, Sullivan D, Atchley RA. Embodied metaphor and the "true" self: Priming entity expansion and protection influences intrinsic self-expressions in self-perceptions and interpersonal behavior Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 47: 79-87. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jesp.2010.08.012  0.794
2011 Landau MJ, Rothschild ZK, Sullivan D. The Extremism of Everyday Life: Fetishism as a Defense against Existential Uncertainty Extremism and the Psychology of Uncertainty. 131-146. DOI: 10.1002/9781444344073.ch8  0.669
2010 Landau MJ, Meier BP, Keefer LA. A metaphor-enriched social cognition. Psychological Bulletin. 136: 1045-67. PMID 20822208 DOI: 10.1037/A0020970  0.681
2010 Sullivan D, Landau MJ, Rothschild ZK. An existential function of enemyship: evidence that people attribute influence to personal and political enemies to compensate for threats to control. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 98: 434-49. PMID 20175623 DOI: 10.1037/A0017457  0.755
2010 Landau MJ, Sullivan D, King LA. Terror Management and Personality: Variations in the Psychological Defense Against the Awareness of Mortality Social and Personality Psychology Compass. 4: 906-917. DOI: 10.1111/J.1751-9004.2010.00305.X  0.452
2010 Greenberg J, Kosloff S, Solomon S, Cohen F, Landau M. Toward understanding the fame game: The effect of mortality salience on the appeal of fame Self and Identity. 9: 1-18. DOI: 10.1080/15298860802391546  0.564
2010 Landau MJ, Sullivan D, Solomon S. On graves and graven images: A terror management analysis of the psychological functions of art European Review of Social Psychology. 21: 114-154. DOI: 10.1080/10463283.2010.513266  0.429
2009 Landau MJ, Sullivan D, Greenberg J. Evidence that self-relevant motives and metaphoric framing interact to influence political and social attitudes. Psychological Science. 20: 1421-7. PMID 19845888 DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-9280.2009.02462.X  0.584
2009 Vess M, Routledge C, Landau MJ, Arndt J. The dynamics of death and meaning: the effects of death-relevant cognitions and personal need for structure on perceptions of meaning in life. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 97: 728-44. PMID 19785489 DOI: 10.1037/A0016417  0.638
2009 Landau MJ, Greenberg J, Sullivan D. Defending a coherent autobiography: when past events appear incoherent, mortality salience prompts compensatory bolstering of the past's significance and the future's orderliness. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin. 35: 1012-20. PMID 19491330 DOI: 10.1177/0146167209336608  0.577
2009 Landau MJ, Greenberg J, Rothschild ZK. Motivated cultural worldview adherence and culturally loaded test performance. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin. 35: 442-53. PMID 19155423 DOI: 10.1177/0146167208329630  0.753
2009 Sullivan D, Greenberg J, Landau MJ. Toward a new understanding of two films from the dark side: Utilizing terror management theory to analyze Rosemary's Baby and Straw Dogs Journal of Popular Film and Television. 37: 189-198. DOI: 10.1080/01956050903227902  0.494
2009 Landau MJ, Greenberg J, Sullivan D, Routledge C, Arndt J. The protective identity: Evidence that mortality salience heightens the clarity and coherence of the self-concept Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 45: 796-807. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jesp.2009.05.013  0.716
2009 Landau MJ, Greenberg J, Sullivan D. Managing terror when self-worth and worldviews collide: Evidence that mortality salience increases reluctance to self-enhance beyond authorities Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 45: 68-79. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jesp.2008.08.007  0.578
2008 Schimel J, Landau M, Hayes J. Self-Esteem: A Human Solution to the Problem of Death Social and Personality Psychology Compass. 2: 1218-1234. DOI: 10.1111/J.1751-9004.2008.00104.X  0.744
2007 Martens A, Kosloff S, Greenberg J, Landau MJ, Schmader T. Killing begets killing: evidence from a bug-killing paradigm that initial killing fuels subsequent killing. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin. 33: 1251-64. PMID 17565050 DOI: 10.1177/0146167207303020  0.686
2007 Landau MJ, Solomon S, Pyszczynski T, Greenberg J. On the Compatibility of Terror Management Theory and Perspectives on Human Evolution Evolutionary Psychology. 5: 147470490700500. DOI: 10.1177/147470490700500303  0.659
2006 Landau MJ, Greenberg J. Play it safe or go for the gold? A terror management perspective on self-enhancement and self-protective motives in risky decision making. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin. 32: 1633-45. PMID 17122176 DOI: 10.1177/0146167206292017  0.56
2006 Goldenberg JL, Hart J, Pyszczynski T, Warnica GM, Landau M, Thomas L. Ambivalence toward the body: death, neuroticism, and the flight from physical sensation. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin. 32: 1264-77. PMID 16902244 DOI: 10.1177/0146167206289505  0.603
2006 Landau MJ, Greenberg J, Solomon S, Pyszczynski T, Martens A. Windows into nothingness: terror management, meaninglessness, and negative reactions to modern art. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 90: 879-92. PMID 16784340 DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.90.6.879  0.754
2006 Pinel EC, Long AE, Landau MJ, Alexander K, Pyszczynski T. Seeing I to I: a pathway to interpersonal connectedness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 90: 243-57. PMID 16536649 DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.90.2.243  0.625
2006 Landau MJ, Goldenberg JL, Greenberg J, Gillath O, Solomon S, Cox C, Martens A, Pyszczynski T. The siren's call: terror management and the threat of men's sexual attraction to women. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 90: 129-46. PMID 16448314 DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.90.1.129  0.717
2005 Miller CH, Landau MJ. Communication and Terrorism: A Terror Management Theory Perspective Communication Research Reports. 22: 79-88. DOI: 10.1080/0882409052000343543  0.333
2004 Martens A, Greenberg J, Schimel J, Landau MJ. Ageism and death: effects of mortality salience and perceived similarity to elders on reactions to elderly people. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin. 30: 1524-36. PMID 15536237 DOI: 10.1177/0146167204271185  0.789
2004 Landau MJ, Solomon S, Greenberg J, Cohen F, Pyszczynski T, Arndt J, Miller CH, Ogilvie DM, Cook A. Deliver us from evil: the effects of mortality salience and reminders of 9/11 on support for President George W. Bush. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin. 30: 1136-50. PMID 15359017 DOI: 10.1177/0146167204267988  0.755
2004 Landau MJ, Johns M, Greenberg J, Pyszczynski T, Martens A, Goldenberg JL, Solomon S. A function of form: terror management and structuring the social world. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 87: 190-210. PMID 15301627 DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.87.2.190  0.755
2004 Landau MJ, Greenberg J, Solomon S. The motivational underpinnings of religion Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 27: 743-744. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X0435017X  0.55
2003 Goldenberg JL, Landau MJ, Pyszczynski T, Cox CR, Greenberg J, Solomon S, Dunnam H. Gender-typical responses to sexual and emotional infidelity as a function of mortality salience induced self-esteem striving. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin. 29: 1585-95. PMID 15018688 DOI: 10.1177/0146167203256880  0.682
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