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In Press

Harmon-Jones, E., & Gable, P. A. (in press). Neural activity underlying the effect of approach-motivated positive affect on narrowed attention. Psychological Science. PDF

Harmon-Jones, E., Harmon-Jones, C., Abramson, L. Y., & Peterson, C. K. (in press). PANAS positive activation is associated with anger. Emotion.

Harmon-Jones, E., Amodio, D. M., & Harmon-Jones, C. (in press). Action-based model of dissonance: A review, integration, and expansion of conceptions of cognitive conflict. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology.

Harmon-Jones, E., & Gable, P. A. (in press). Incorporating motivational intensity and direction into the study of emotions: Implications for brain mechanisms of emotion and cognition-emotion interactions. Netherlands Journal of Psychology.

Harmon-Jones, E., Peterson, C. K., & Harris, C. R. (in press). Jealousy: Novel methods and neural correlates. Emotion.PDF

van Honk, J., Harmon-Jones, E., Morgan, B. E., & Schutter, D. J. L. G. (in press). Socially explosive minds: The triple imbalance hypothesis of reactive aggression. Journal of Personality.

Gable, P. A., & Harmon-Jones, E. (in press). Postauricular reflex responses to pictures varying in valence and arousal. Psychophysiology. PDF

Carver, C. S., & Harmon-Jones, E. (in press). Anger is an approach-related affect: Evidence and implications. Psychological Bulletin. PDF

Harmon-Jones, E. (in press). Cognitive dissonance theory. In S. W. Littlejohn & K. A. Foss (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Communication Theory. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Harmon-Jones, E., & Peterson, C. K. (in press). Effect of trait and state approach motivation on aggression. Journal of Research in Personality.
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Urosevic, S. Abramson, L. Y., Harmon-Jones, E., & Alloy, L. B. (in press). BAS dysregulation in bipolar disorder. Clinical Psychology Review.

Harmon-Jones, C., Schmeichel, B. J., & Harmon-Jones, E. (in press). Symbolic self completion in Internet Communications. European Journal of Social Psychology.
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Harmon-Jones, E. (in press). Anger: A review of human electrophysiology and functional neuroimaging research. In D. Barch (Ed.), Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience of Psychopathology. Oxford University Press.
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Harmon-Jones, E. (in press). On the emotive functions of asymmetrical frontal cortical activity. In A. Todorov, S. Fiske, & D. Prentice (Eds.), Social Neuroscience: Toward Understanding the Underpinnings of the Social Mind. Oxford University Press.

Harmon-Jones, E., Peterson, C., Gable, P., & Harmon-Jones, C. (in press). Anger. In A. Elliot (Ed.), Handbook of Approach and Avoidance Motivation. Lawrence Erlbaum.

Harmon-Jones, E., Peterson, C. K., & Harmon-Jones, C. (in press). Anger, motivation, and asymmetrical frontal cortical activations. In M. Potegal, G. Stemmler, & C. Spielberger (Eds.), Handbook of Anger: Constituent and concomitant biological, psychological, and social processes. New York, NY: Springer.



2008

Amodio, D. M., Devine, P. G., & Harmon-Jones, E. (2008). Individual differences in the regulation of intergroup bias: The role of conflict monitoring and neural signals for control. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94, 60-74.
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Gable, P. A. & Harmon-Jones, E. (2008). Relative left frontal activation to appetitive stimuli: Considering the role of individual differences. Psychophysiology, 45, 275-278.
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Gable, P. A., & Harmon-Jones, E. (2008). Approach-motivated positive affect reduces breadth of attention. Psychological Science, 19, 476-482.
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Harmon-Jones, E., Abramson, L. Y., Nusslock, R., Sigelman, J. D., Urosevic, S., Turonie, L. D., Alloy, L. B., & Fearn, M. (2008). Effect of bipolar disorder on left frontal cortical responses to goals differing in valence and task difficulty. Biological Psychiatry, 63, 693-698.
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Harmon-Jones, E., Gerdjikov. T., & Harmon-Jones, C. (2008).The effect of induced compliance on relative left frontal cortical activity: A test of the action-based model of dissonance. European Journal of Social Psychology, 38, 35-45.
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Harmon-Jones, E., & Harmon-Jones, C. (2008). Action-based model of dissonance: A review of behavioral, anterior cingulate and prefrontal cortical mechanisms. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2/3, 1518-1538.
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Harmon-Jones, E., Harmon-Jones, C., Fearn, M., Sigelman, J. D., & Johnson, P. (2008). Action orientation, relative left frontal cortical activation, and spreading of alternatives: A test of the action-based model of dissonance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94, 1-15.
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Nusslock, R., Alloy, L. B., Abramson, L. Y., Harmon-Jones, E., & Hogan, M. E. (2008). Impairment in the achievement domain in bipolar spectrum disorders: Role of Behavioral Approach System (BAS) hypersensitivity and impulsivity. Minerva Pediatrica, 60, 41-50. PDF

Peterson, C. K., Gable, P., & Harmon-Jones, E. (2008). Asymmetrical frontal ERPs, emotion, and behavioral approach/inhibition sensitivity. Social Neuroscience, 3, 113-124.
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Peterson, C. K., & Harmon-Jones, E. (2008). Proneness to hypomania predicts EEG coherence between left motor cortex and left prefrontal cortex. Biological Psychology, 78, 216-219.
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Peterson, C. K., Shackman, A. J., & Harmon-Jones, E. (2008). The role of asymmetrical frontal cortical activity in aggression. Psychophysiology, 45, 86-92. 45, 86-92.
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Zinner, L., Brodish, A., Devine, P. G., & Harmon-Jones, E. (2008). Anger and asymmetrical frontal cortical activity: Evidence for an anger-withdrawal relationship. Cognition and Emotion, 22, 1081-1093. PDF



2007

Amodio, D. M., Devine, P. G., & Harmon-Jones, E. (2007). A dynamic model of guilt: Implications for motivation and self-regulation in the context of prejudice. Psychological Science, 18, 524-530.
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Harmon-Jones, E. (2007). Trait anger predicts relative left frontal cortical activation to anger-inducing stimuli. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 66, 154-160.
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Harmon-Jones, E., & Harmon-Jones, C. (2007). Cognitive dissonance theory after 50 years of development. Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie, 38, 7-16.
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Harmon-Jones, E., & Harmon-Jones, C. (2007). Cognitive dissonance theory: An update with a focus on the action-based model. Handbook of motivation science,(pp. 71-83), Ed. J. Shah & W. Gardner, Guilford Publications, New York.

Harmon-Jones, E., Amodio, D. M., & Zinner, L. (2007). Social psychological methods of emotion induction. In J. J. B. Allen & J. A. Coan (Eds.), Methods in emotion research.
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Amodio, D. M., Harmon-Jones, E., & Devine, P. G. (2007). Mechanisms for the regulation of intergroup responses: Insights from a social neuroscience approach. Social Neuroscience: Integrating Biological and Psychological Explanations of Social Behavior (pp. 353-375). Guilford Publications: New York..

Harmon-Jones, E. (2007). Asymmetrical frontal cortical activity, affective valence, and motivational direction. In E. Harmon-Jones & P. Winkielman (Eds.), Social Neuroscience: Integrating Biological and Psychological Explanations of Social Behavior (pp. 137-156). Guilford Publications: New York..

Harmon-Jones, E., & Winkielman, P. (2007). A brief overview of social neuroscience. In E. Harmon-Jones & P. Winkielman (Eds.), Social Neuroscience: Integrating Biological and Psychological Explanations of Social Behavior (pp. 3-11). Guilford Publications: New York..

Harmon-Jones, E., & Winkielman, P. (2007). Social Neuroscience: Integrating Biological and Psychological Explanations of Social Behavior. Guilford Publications: New York..

Harmon-Jones, E., & Harmon-Jones, C. (2007). Spreading of alternatives. In R. Baumeister & K. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Psychology (Vol. 2, p. 936.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications..

Nusslock, R., Abramson, L. Y., Harmon-Jones, E., Alloy, L. B., & Hogan, M. (2007). A goal-striving life event and the onset of hypomanic and depressive episodes and symptoms: Perspective from the behavioral approach system (BAS) dysregulation theory. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 116, 105-115.
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2006

Amodio, D. M., Kubota, J. T., Harmon-Jones, E., & Devine, P. G. (2006). Alternative mechanisms for regulating racial responses according to internal vs. external cues. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 1, 26-36.
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Harmon-Jones, E. (2006). Unilateral right-hand contractions cause contralateral alpha power suppression and approach motivational affective experience. Psychophysiology, 43, 598-603
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Harmon-Jones, E., & Harmon-Jones, C. (2006). Anger: Causes and Components. In T. A. Cavell & K. T. Malcolm (Eds.), Anger, aggression, and interventions for interpersonal violence. Lawrence Erlbaum: Mahwah, New Jersey.
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Harmon-Jones, E., Lueck, L., Fearn, M., & Harmon-Jones, C. (2006). The effect of personal relevance and approach-related action expectation on relative left frontal cortical activity. Psychological Science, 17, 434-440.
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2004

Amodio, D. M., Harmon-Jones, E., Devine, P. G., Curtin, J. J., Hartley, S., & Covert, A. (2004). Neural signals for the detection of unintentional race bias. Psychological Science, 15, 88-93.
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Amodio, D. M., Shah, J. Y., Sigelman, J. D., Brazy, P. C., & Harmon-Jones, E. (2004). Implicit regulatory focus associated with resting frontal cortical asymmetry. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40, 225-232.
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Berkowitz, L., & Harmon-Jones, E. (2004). More thoughts about anger determinants. Emotion, 4, 151-155.
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Berkowitz, L., & Harmon-Jones, E. (2004). Toward an understanding of the determinants of anger. Emotion, 4, 107-130.
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Harmon-Jones, E. (2004). From cognitive dissonance to the motivational functions of emotions. In R. A. Wright, J. Greenberg, & S. S. Brehm (Eds.), Motivation and Emotion in Social Contexts: Jack Brehm’s Influence on Contemporary Psychological Thought (pp. 39-55) . Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
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Harmon-Jones, E. (2004). Insights on asymmetrical frontal brain activity gleaned from research on anger and cognitive dissonance. Biological Psychology, 67, 51-76.
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Harmon-Jones, E. (2004). On the relationship of anterior brain activity and anger: Examining the role of attitude toward anger. Cognition and Emotion, 18, 337-361.
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Harmon-Jones, E., Vaughn, K., Mohr, S., Sigelman, J., & Harmon-Jones, C. (2004). The effect of manipulated sympathy and anger on left and right frontal cortical activity. Emotion, 4, 95-101.
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2003

Amodio, D. M., Harmon-Jones, E., & Devine, P. G. (2003). Individual differences in the activation and control of affective race bias as assessed by startle eyeblink responses and self-report. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 738-753.
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Harmon-Jones, E. (2003). Anger and the behavioural approach system. Personality and Individual Differences, 35, 995-1005.
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Harmon-Jones, E. (2003). Clarifying the emotive functions of asymmetrical frontal cortical activity. Psychophysiology, 40, 838-848.
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Harmon-Jones, E., & Devine, P. G. (2003). Introduction to the special section on social neuroscience: Promise and caveats. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 589-593.
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Harmon-Jones, E., & Harmon-Jones, C. (2003). Whatever happened to cognitive dissonance theory? The General Psychologist, 38, 25-30.
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Harmon-Jones, E., Peterson, H., & Vaughn, K. (2003). The dissonance-inducing effects of an inconsistency between experienced empathy and knowledge of past failures to help: Support for the action-based model of dissonance. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 25, 69-78.
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Harmon-Jones, E., Sigelman, J. D., Bohlig, A., & Harmon-Jones, C. (2003). Anger, coping, and frontal cortical activity: The effect of coping potential on anger-induced left frontal activity. Cognition and Emotion, 17, 1-24.
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2002

Devine, P. G., Plant, E. A., Amodio, D. M., Harmon-Jones, E., & Vance, S. (2002). The regulation of explicit and implicit race bias: The role of motivations to respond without prejudice . Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82, 835-848 .
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Harmon-Jones, E. (2002). A cognitive dissonance theory perspective on persuasion. J. P. Dillard & M. Pfau (Eds.), The persuasion handbook: Developments in theory and practice (pp. 99-116). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
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Harmon-Jones, E., Abramson, L. Y., Sigelman, J., Bohlig, A., Hogan, M. E., & Harmon-Jones, C. (2002). Proneness to hypomania/mania or depression and asymmetrical frontal cortical responses to an anger-evoking event. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82, 610-618.
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Harmon-Jones, E., & Harmon-Jones, C. (2002). Testing the action-based model of cognitive dissonance: The effect of action-orientation on post-decisional attitudes. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28, 711-723.
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2001

Allen, J. J. B., Harmon-Jones, E., & Cavender, J. (2001). Manipulation of frontal EEG asymmetry through biofeedback alters self-reported emotional responses and facial EMG. Psychophysiology, 38, 685-693.
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Coan, J. A., Allen, J. J. B., & Harmon-Jones, E. (2001). Voluntary facial expression and hemispheric asymmetry over the frontal cortex. Psychophysiology, 38, 912-925.
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Harmon-Jones, E. (2001). The role of affect in cognitive dissonance processes. In J. Forgas (Ed.), Handbook of affect and social cognition (pp. 237-255). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
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Harmon-Jones, E., & Allen, J. J. B. (2001). The role of affect in the mere exposure effect: Evidence from psychophysiological and individual differences approaches. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27, 889-898.
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Harmon-Jones, E., & Sigelman, J. (2001). State anger and prefrontal brain activity: Evidence that insult-related relative left prefrontal activation is associated with experienced anger and aggression. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80 , 797-803.
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2000

Harmon-Jones, E. (2000). A cognitive dissonance theory perspective on the role of emotion in the maintenance and change of beliefs and attitudes. In N. H. Frijda, A. R. S. Manstead, & S. Bem (Eds.), Emotions and beliefs (pp. 185 – 211). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Harmon-Jones, E. (2000). An update on dissonance theory, with a focus on the self. In A. Tesser, R. Felson, & J. Suls (Eds.). Psychological perspectives on self and identity (pp. 119 – 144). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
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Harmon-Jones, E. (2000). Cognitive dissonance and experienced negative affect: Evidence that dissonance increases experienced negative affect even in the absence of aversive consequences. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26, 1490-1501.
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Harmon-Jones, E. (2000). Reconsidering Festinger and Carlsmith’s (1959) classic experiment testing cognitive dissonance theory. Revue Internationale de Psychologie Sociale, 13, 193-201.
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1999

Harmon-Jones, E. (1999). Toward an understanding of the motivation underlying dissonance processes: Is feeling personally responsible for the production of aversive consequences necessary to cause dissonance effects? In E. Harmon-Jones, & J. Mills, Cognitive Dissonance: Perspectives on a pivotal theory in social psychology (pp. 71-99). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
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Harmon-Jones, E., & Mills, J. (1999). An introduction to the theory of cognitive dissonance, its revisions, and current controversies. In E. Harmon-Jones, & J. Mills, Cognitive Dissonance: Perspectives on a pivotal theory in social psychology (pp. 3-21). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
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Harmon-Jones, E., & Mills, J. (1999). Cognitive Dissonance: Progress on a pivotal theory in social psychology. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
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1998

Harmon-Jones, E., & Allen, J. J. B. (1998). Anger and prefrontal brain activity: EEG asymmetry consistent with approach motivation despite negative affective valence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 1310-1316.
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1997

Batson, C. D., Polycarpou, M. P., Harmon-Jones, E., Imhoff, H. J., Mitchener, E. C., Bednar, L. L., Klein, T. R., & Highberger, L. (1997). Empathy and attitudes: Can feeling for a member of a stigmatized outgroup improve attitudes toward the group? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 72, 105-118.
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Burris, C. T., Harmon-Jones, E., Tarpley, W. R. (1997). “By faith alone”: Religious agitation and cognitive dissonance. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 19, 17-31.
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Harmon-Jones, E., & Allen, J. J. B. (1997). Behavioral activation sensitivity and resting frontal EEG asymmetry: Covariation of putative indicators related to risk for mood disorders. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 106, 159-163.
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Harmon-Jones, E., Barratt, E. S., & Wigg, C. (1997). Impulsiveness, aggression, reading, and the P300 of the event-related potential. Personality and Individual Differences, 22, 439-445.
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Harmon-Jones, E., Simon, L., Greenberg, J., Pyszczynski, T., Solomon, S., & McGregor, H. (1997). Terror management and self-esteem: Evidence that self-esteem reduces mortality salience effects. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 72, 24-26.
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Mills, J., & Harmon-Jones, E. (1997). Dissonance theory revival: A Radical Prescription. Contemporary Psychology, 42, 494-495.
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Simon, L., Greenberg, J., Harmon-Jones, E., Solomon, S., Pyszczynski, T., Abend, T. (1997). Terror management and cognitive experiential self theory: Evidence that terror management occurs in the experiential system. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 72, 1132-1146.
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1996

Harmon-Jones, E., Brehm, J. W., Greenberg, J., Simon, L., & Nelson, D. E. (1996). Evidence that the production of aversive consequences is not necessary to create cognitive dissonance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70, 5-16.
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Harmon-Jones, E., Greenberg, J., Solomon, S., & Simon, L. (1996). The effects of mortality salience on intergroup bias between minimal groups. European Journal of Social Psychology, 26, 677-681.
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Simon, L., Greenberg, J., Harmon-Jones, E, Solomon, S., & Pyszczynski, T. (1996). Mild depression, mortality salience, and defense of the worldview: Evidence of intensified terror management in the mildly depressed. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 22, 81-90.
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1995

Greenberg, J., Simon, L., Harmon-Jones, E., Solomon, S., Pyszczynski, T., & Lyon, D. (1995). Testing alternative explanations for mortality salience effects: Terror management, value accessibility, or worrisome thoughts? European Journal of Social Psychology, 25, 417-433.
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Wright, R. A., Tunstall, A. M., Williams, B. J., Goodwin, J. S., & Harmon-Jones, E. (1995). Social evaluation and cardiovascular response: An active coping approach. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 69, 530-543.
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