Publications



Hayes, J., Prentice, M., & McGregor, I. (forthcoming). Giving in and giving up: Accommodation and fatalistic withdrawal as alternatives to primary control restoration. In Bukowski, M., Fritsche, I, Guinote, A., & Kofta, M. (Eds.), Coping with lack of control in a social world.

Hayes, J. (2016). Praising the dead: On the motivational tendency and psychological function of eulogizing the deceased. Motivation and Emotion, 40, 375-388.

Hayes, J., Ward, C., & McGregor, I. (2016). Why bother? Death, failure, and fatalistic withdrawal from life. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 110, 96-115.

McGregor, I., Hayes, J., & Prentice, M. (2015). Motivation for aggressive religious radicalization: Goal regulation theory and a personality x threat x affordance hypothesis. Frontiers in Psychology, 6:1325.

Hayes, J., Schimel, J., Williams, Howard, A. L., Webber, D., & Faucher, E. H. (2015). Worldview accommodation: Selectively modifying committed beliefs provides defense against worldview threat. Self and Identity, 14, 521-548.

Webber, D., Schimel, J., Faucher, E. H., Hayes, J., Zhang, R., & Martens, A. (2015). Emotion as a necessary component of threat-induced death thought accessibility and defensive compensation. Motivation and Emotion, 39, 142-155.

Williams, T. J., Schimel, J., Hayes, J., & Usta, M. (2014). Following and resisting body image ideals in advertising: The moderating role of extrinsic contingency focus. Self and Identity, 13, 398-418. 

Webber, D., Schimel, J., Martens, A., Hayes, J., & Faucher, E.H. (2013). Using a bug-killing paradigm to understand how social validation and invalidation affect the distress of killing. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 39, 470-481.

Williams, T. J., Schimel, J., Hayes, J., & Faucher, E. H. (2012). The Effects of Existential Threat on Reading Comprehension of Worldview Affirming and Disconfirming Information. European Journal of Social Psychology, 42, 602-616.  

Hayes, J., Schimel, J., Arndt, J., & Faucher, E.H. (2010). A theoretical and empirical review of the death-thought accessibility concept in terror management research. Psychological Bulletin, 136, 699-739.

Martens, A., Greenberg, J., Allen, J.B., Hayes, J., Schimel, J., & Johns, M. (2010). Self-esteem and Autonomic Physiology: Self-esteem Levels Predict Cardiac Vagal Tone. Journal of Research in Personality, 44, 573-584.

Williams, T. J., Schimel, J., Hayes, J., & Martens, A. (2010). The moderating role of extrinsic contingency focus on reactions to threat. European Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 300-320. 

Hayes, J., Schimel, J., & Williams, T. J. (2008). Fighting death with death: The buffering effects of learning that worldview violators have died. Psychological Science, 19, 501-507.

Schimel, J., Landau, M., & Hayes, J. (2008). Self-esteem: A human solution to the problem of death. Personality and Social Psychology Compass, 2, 1-17. 

Hayes, J., Schimel, J., Faucher, E. H., & Williams, T. J. (2008). Evidence for the DTA hypothesis II: Threatening self-esteem increases death-thought accessibility. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 600-613.  

Schimel, J., Hayes, J., Williams, T., & Jahrig, J. (2007). Is death really the worm at the core? Converging evidence that worldview threat increases death-thought accessibility. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92, 789-803.