Jeff Schimel

6.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
47 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Jeff Schimel is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jeff Schimel has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Social Psychology, 27 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 22 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Jeff Schimel's work include Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion (38 papers), Social and Intergroup Psychology (25 papers) and Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (19 papers). Jeff Schimel is often cited by papers focused on Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion (38 papers), Social and Intergroup Psychology (25 papers) and Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (19 papers). Jeff Schimel collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and New Zealand. Jeff Schimel's co-authors include Jeff Greenberg, Jamie Arndt, Tom Pyszczynski, Sheldon Solomon, Joseph Hayes, Andy Martens, Todd J. Williams, Erik H. Faucher, Michael Johns and Eva Jonas and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Bulletin and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Jeff Schimel

47 papers receiving 3.8k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Why Do People Need Self-Esteem? A Theoretical and Empirical Review.

2004 898 citations Tom Pyszczynski, Jeff Greenberg et al. Psychological Bulletin profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Resting-state networks of believers and non-believers: An EEG microstate study 2022 ·Biological Psychology ·Kyle Nash, Tobias Kleinert, Josh Leota, Andy Scott, Jeff Schimel	17
2	Long live A(me)rica! An examination of the interplay between nationalistic–symbolic immortality striving and belief in life after death. 2021 ·Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ·Andy Scott, Jeff Schimel, (unknown)	7
3	Unintended effects of measuring implicit processes: The case of death-thought accessibility in mortality salience studies 2017 ·Journal of Experimental Social Psychology ·Joseph Hayes, Jeff Schimel	29
4	Older Adults and the Fear of Death: The Protective Function of Generativity 2016 ·Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement ·(unknown), William J. Whelton, Jeff Schimel, Donald Sharpe	19
5	Terrorist Attacks Escalate in Frequency and Fatalities Preceding Highly Lethal Attacks 2014 ·PLoS ONE ·Andy Martens, Raazesh Sainudiin, Chris G. Sibley, Jeff Schimel, David Webber	9
6	Bicultural Terror Management: Identity Hybridity Moderates the Effect of Mortality Salience on Biculturals’ Familiarity Versus Novelty Seeking Tendency 2014 ·Self and Identity ·Rui Zhang, Jeff Schimel, Erik H. Faucher	6
7	A theoretical and empirical review of the death-thought accessibility concept in terror management research. 2010 ·Psychological Bulletin ·Joseph Hayes, Jeff Schimel, Jamie Arndt, Erik H. Faucher	241
8	The moderating role of extrinsic contingency focus on reactions to threat 2009 ·European Journal of Social Psychology ·Todd J. Williams, Jeff Schimel, Joseph Hayes, Andy Martens	22
9	Evidence for the DTA hypothesis II: Threatening self-esteem increases death-thought accessibility 2008 ·Journal of Experimental Social Psychology ·Joseph Hayes, Jeff Schimel, Erik H. Faucher, Todd J. Williams	83
10	Is death really the worm at the core? Converging evidence that worldview threat increases death-thought accessibility. 2007 ·Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ·Jeff Schimel, Joseph Hayes, Todd J. Williams, (unknown)	178
11	Why Do People Need Self-Esteem? A Theoretical and Empirical Review. breakdown → 2004 ·Psychological Bulletin ·Tom Pyszczynski, Jeff Greenberg, Sheldon Solomon, Jamie Arndt, Jeff Schimel	898
12	Ageism and Death: Effects of Mortality Salience and Perceived Similarity to Elders on Reactions to Elderly People 2004 ·Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin ·Andy Martens, Jeff Greenberg, Jeff Schimel, Mark J. Landau	122
13	Converging Toward an Integrated Theory of Self-Esteem: Reply to Crocker and Nuer (2004), Ryan and Deci (2004), and Leary (2004). 2004 ·Psychological Bulletin ·Tom Pyszczynski, Jeff Greenberg, Sheldon Solomon, Jamie Arndt, Jeff Schimel	26
14	To belong or not to belong, that is the question: Terror management and identification with gender and ethnicity. 2002 ·Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ·Jamie Arndt, Jeff Greenberg, Jeff Schimel, Tom Pyszczynski, Sheldon Solomon	11
15	Being accepted for who we are: Evidence that social validation of the intrinsic self reduces general defensiveness. 2001 ·Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ·Jeff Schimel, Jamie Arndt, Tom Pyszczynski, Jeff Greenberg	95
16	Sympathy for the Devil: Evidence That Reminding Whites of Their Mortality Promotes More Favorable Reactions to White Racists 2001 ·Motivation and Emotion ·Jeff Greenberg, Jeff Schimel, Andy Martens, Sheldon Solomon, (unknown)	86
17	Being accepted for who we are: Evidence that social validation of the intrinsic self reduces general defensiveness. 2001 ·Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ·Jeff Schimel, Jamie Arndt, Tom Pyszczynski, Jeff Greenberg	94
18	Running from the shadow: Psychological distancing from others to deny characteristics people fear in themselves. 2000 ·Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ·Jeff Schimel, (unknown), J. S. Greenberg, Heather O’Mahen, (unknown)	45
19	Running from the shadow: Psychological distancing from others to deny characteristics people fear in themselves. 2000 ·Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ·Jeff Schimel, Tom Pyszczynski, Jeff Greenberg, Heather O’Mahen, Jamie Arndt	44
20	Stereotypes and terror management: Evidence that mortality salience enhances stereotypic thinking and preferences. 1999 ·Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ·Jeff Schimel, Linda Simon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, Sheldon Solomon, (unknown), Jamie Arndt	232

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