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| Jeff Greenberg is Professor of Psychology at the University of Arizona and associate editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. He received his PhD from the University of Kansas in 1982. Dr. Greenberg has published many articles and chapters, focused primarily on understanding self-esteem, prejudice, and depression. In collaboration with Tom Pyszczynski and Sheldon Solomon, he developed terror management theory, a broad theoretical framework that explores the role of existential fears in diverse aspects of human behavior. He is coauthor of Hanging on and Letting Go: Understanding the Onset, Progression, and Remission of Depression and In the Wake of 9/11: The Psychology of Terror, and is coeditor of Motivational Analyses of Social Behavior.
Sander L. Koole is Associate Professor of Psychology at the Free University in Amsterdam. He received his PhD in social psychology from the University of Nijmegen in 2000. Dr. Koole has published articles and chapters on self-affirmation, implicit self-esteem, terror management processes, and affect regulation. In collaboration with Julius Kuhl and other colleagues, his recent work has focused on personality systems interactions theory, an integrative perspective that seeks to understand the functional mechanisms that underlie human motivation and personality processes. Together with Constantine Sedekides, he was guest editor of a special issue of Social Cognition on The Art and Science of Self-Defense.
Tom Pyszczynski is Professor of Psychology at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He received his PhD in social psychology from the University of Kansas in1980. In collaboration with Jeff Greenberg and Sheldon Solomon, Dr. Pyszczynski developed terror management theory. His recent research has focused on applications of terror management theory to questions about the need for self-esteem, prejudice and intergroup conflict, unconscious processes, anxiety, and ambivalence regarding the human body. He is coauthor of In the Wake of 9/11 and Hanging on and Letting Go.
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Summary
6 hours CE
Tom Pyszczynski, PhD, Sheldon Solomon, PhD, and JeffGreenberg, PhD
In the Wake of 9/11 explores the emotions of despair, fear, and anger that arose after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in the Autumn of 2001. The authors analyze reactions to the attacks through the lens of terror management theory.
Learning Objectives
- Comprehend the definition of Terror Management Theory
- Recognize TMT's validity and widespread applicability though an appreciation of the large amount of scientific evidence in support of theory
- Apply TMT to 9/11 in order to gain an understanding of the proximal, distal and even pathological reactions Americans had to the attacks
- Utilitze TMT to understand the roots of terrorism and possible strategies to resolve conflicts without violence
Table of Contents
- Terror in America: The Day Our World Changed
- Terror Management Theory: An Evolutionary Existential Account of Human Behavior
- Terror Management Research: Coping with Conscious and Unconscious Death Related Thoughts
- Terror Management Research on Prejudice and Self-Esteem Striving
- Black Tuesday: The Psychological Impact of 9/11
- Managing the Terror
- The Roots of Islamic Terrorism
- Giving Peace a Chance
- In the wake of 9/11: Rising Above the Terror
Difficulty Level: Beginning to Intermediate
264pp
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