Jeff Greenberg

Research Interests: 

Selected Publications: 

• Solomon, S., Greenberg, J., & Pyszczynski, T. (2015).  The worm at the core: On the role of death in life.  New York: Random House.   
• Zestcott, C. A., Lifshin, U., Helm, P. J., & Greenberg J. (2016). He dies he scores: The effects of reminders of death on athletic performance in basketball. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology. 38, 470-480. 
• Lifshin, U., Greenberg, J., Sullivan, D., & Zestcott, C. (2017). The evil animal: A terror management theory perspective on the human tendency to kill animals. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 43 (6), 743-757.
• Lifshin, U., Soenke, M., Greenberg J., Darrell, A., & Pyszczynski., T. (2018). Mortality Salience, Religiosity, and Indefinite Life Extension: Evidence of a Reciprocal Relationship Between Afterlife Beliefs and Support for Forestalling Death. Religion, Brain, and Behavior, 8(1), 31-43. 
• Helm, P. J., Greenberg, J., Park, Y. C., & Pinel, E. C. (2019). Feeling alone in your subjectivity: Introducing the state trait existential isolation model (STEIM). Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology, 3, 146-157.  
• Rothschild, L., Lifshin, U., Helm, P., & Greenberg, J. (2019). A blessing and a cure: The self as the source of both the terror and its management. In C. Routledge and M. Vess (Eds.), The Handbook of Terror Management Theory (pp.179-208). Amsterdam: Elsevier.  
• Greenberg, J. (2020). This mortal coil. Aeon. https://aeon.co/essays/how-to-apply-terror-management-theory-to-improve-human-lives

Courses Taught:

• PSY 467 - Social Psychology & Cinema: Understanding Social Behavior Through Theory, Research, & the Cinema (2024)
• PSY 560 - Advanced Social Psychology (2021)

Updated: 11/13/23