Spee Kosloff
Biographic Data
| ID | 763444 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Spee Kosloff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Spee |
| FAMILY NAME | Kosloff |
| SIGNATURE | KOSLOFF S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Attachment and post-traumatic stress in victims of interpersonal trauma: The mediating role of emotion-focused coping
Two studies examined whether negative emotion-focused coping accounts for associations between attachment insecurity and post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTS). Victims of physical or sexual assault ( N Study1 = 71; N Study2 = 250) completed measures of attachment, negative emotion-focused coping, and PTS. Associations between attachment-avoidance and PTS were mediated by suppressive emotion-focused coping, and associations between attachment-anxie…
Death Goes to the Polls: A Meta‐Analysis of Mortality Salience Effects on Political Attitudes
Terror management theory posits that people are motivated to affirm cultural meaning systems, including political ideologies, to avoid the awareness of mortality. Accordingly, studies show that increasing mortality salience (MS) intensifies people's attitudes toward political issues and figures. However, whereas in some studies MS increases affirmation of preexisting political ideologies, be they liberal or conservative (supporting a “worldview‐d…
Evidence that Killing Escalates Within‐Subjects in a Bug‐Killing Paradigm
Prior research has examined killing behavior using a paradigm in which participants believe (falsely) that they are killing bugs. This work suggests that killing behavior escalates. In the present study, we sought to replicate the basic escalation effect within‐subjects. Further, in doing so, we controlled for experimenter “sanctioning” of killing that may have differed with key between‐subjects manipulations in the prior research. To control for…
Evidence That Initial Obedient Killing Fuels Subsequent Volitional Killing Beyond Effects of Practice
Research using a bug-killing paradigm has suggested that increased initial killing may promote increased subsequent killing. Here, the authors tested whether this effect is due to killing per se or merely due to practice and whether this initial repeated bug killing exerts its effect by desensitizing people or by motivating them to kill more. Participants were asked to place bugs into an “extermination grinder” at their own pace after putting eit…
Imbuing Everyday Actions with Meaning in Response to Existential Threat
Drawing on terror management theory and related perspectives on existential motivation, we hypothesized that people manage concerns with personal mortality by imbuing their everyday actions with abstract, self-relevant meaning. Accordingly, we found that subtle reminders of mortality led participants to view hypothetical actions at higher levels of action identification (Study 1), draw more connections between their current actions and personally…
Disdain for anxious individuals as a function of mortality salience
Terror management theory research has shown that reminders of mortality tend to decrease liking for people who threaten one's worldview. In research, these worldview threats typically come from outgroup members, but they may also come from ingroup members who are negatively characterized. Presumably the negative characteristics of ingroup members threaten to diminish or undermine the worldview by their association with it. In this research we exa…
Toward Understanding the Fame Game: The Effect of Mortality Salience on the Appeal of Fame
Although the appeal of fame in society seems to be increasing, experimental research has yet to examine the motivations that may underlie this apparent appeal. As a first step toward doing so, we conducted three studies to assess whether concerns with mortality play a role in these phenomena. Based on terror management theory and research, we hypothesized that reminders of death would increase people's desire for fame and admiration of celebritie…
The effects of mortality salience on political preferences: The roles of charisma and political orientation
Pearls in the desert: Death reminders provoke immediate derogation of extrinsic goals, but delayed inflation
Death Goes to the Polls: A Meta‐Analysis of Mortality Salience Effects on Political Attitudes
Terror management theory posits that people are motivated to affirm cultural meaning systems, including political ideologies, to avoid the awareness of mortality. Accordingly, studies show that increasing mortality salience (MS) intensifies people's attitudes toward political issues and figures. However, whereas in some studies MS increases affirmation of preexisting political ideologies, be they liberal or conservative (supporting a “worldview‐d…
The effects of mortality salience on political preferences: The roles of charisma and political orientation
Pearls in the desert: Death reminders provoke immediate derogation of extrinsic goals, but delayed inflation
Evidence that Killing Escalates Within‐Subjects in a Bug‐Killing Paradigm
Prior research has examined killing behavior using a paradigm in which participants believe (falsely) that they are killing bugs. This work suggests that killing behavior escalates. In the present study, we sought to replicate the basic escalation effect within‐subjects. Further, in doing so, we controlled for experimenter “sanctioning” of killing that may have differed with key between‐subjects manipulations in the prior research. To control for…
Pearls in the desert: Death reminders provoke immediate derogation of extrinsic goals, but delayed inflation
Toward Understanding the Fame Game: The Effect of Mortality Salience on the Appeal of Fame
Although the appeal of fame in society seems to be increasing, experimental research has yet to examine the motivations that may underlie this apparent appeal. As a first step toward doing so, we conducted three studies to assess whether concerns with mortality play a role in these phenomena. Based on terror management theory and research, we hypothesized that reminders of death would increase people's desire for fame and admiration of celebritie…
The effects of mortality salience on political preferences: The roles of charisma and political orientation
Evidence That Initial Obedient Killing Fuels Subsequent Volitional Killing Beyond Effects of Practice
Research using a bug-killing paradigm has suggested that increased initial killing may promote increased subsequent killing. Here, the authors tested whether this effect is due to killing per se or merely due to practice and whether this initial repeated bug killing exerts its effect by desensitizing people or by motivating them to kill more. Participants were asked to place bugs into an “extermination grinder” at their own pace after putting eit…
Imbuing Everyday Actions with Meaning in Response to Existential Threat
Drawing on terror management theory and related perspectives on existential motivation, we hypothesized that people manage concerns with personal mortality by imbuing their everyday actions with abstract, self-relevant meaning. Accordingly, we found that subtle reminders of mortality led participants to view hypothetical actions at higher levels of action identification (Study 1), draw more connections between their current actions and personally…
Disdain for anxious individuals as a function of mortality salience
Terror management theory research has shown that reminders of mortality tend to decrease liking for people who threaten one's worldview. In research, these worldview threats typically come from outgroup members, but they may also come from ingroup members who are negatively characterized. Presumably the negative characteristics of ingroup members threaten to diminish or undermine the worldview by their association with it. In this research we exa…
Evidence that Killing Escalates Within‐Subjects in a Bug‐Killing Paradigm
Prior research has examined killing behavior using a paradigm in which participants believe (falsely) that they are killing bugs. This work suggests that killing behavior escalates. In the present study, we sought to replicate the basic escalation effect within‐subjects. Further, in doing so, we controlled for experimenter “sanctioning” of killing that may have differed with key between‐subjects manipulations in the prior research. To control for…
Death Goes to the Polls: A Meta‐Analysis of Mortality Salience Effects on Political Attitudes
Terror management theory posits that people are motivated to affirm cultural meaning systems, including political ideologies, to avoid the awareness of mortality. Accordingly, studies show that increasing mortality salience (MS) intensifies people's attitudes toward political issues and figures. However, whereas in some studies MS increases affirmation of preexisting political ideologies, be they liberal or conservative (supporting a “worldview‐d…
Attachment and post-traumatic stress in victims of interpersonal trauma: The mediating role of emotion-focused coping
Two studies examined whether negative emotion-focused coping accounts for associations between attachment insecurity and post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTS). Victims of physical or sexual assault ( N Study1 = 71; N Study2 = 250) completed measures of attachment, negative emotion-focused coping, and PTS. Associations between attachment-avoidance and PTS were mediated by suppressive emotion-focused coping, and associations between attachment-anxie…
Psychology (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Cognitive psychology (5 works) · Mortality salience (5 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (4 works) · Salience (neuroscience (4 works) · Terror management theory (4 works) · Law (3 works)