Kenneth Vail

University of Missouri at Columbia

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United States

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Scholarly Papers (6)

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Dying to Live: Terrorism, War, and Defending One's Way of Life

INTERDISCIPLINARY ANALYSES OF TERRORISM AND POLITICAL AGGRESSION, pp. 49-70, D. Antonius, A. D. Brown, T. K. Walters, J. M. Ramirez, S. J. Sinclair, eds., Cambridge, 2010
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 20 Feb 2011
Kenneth Vail, Matt Motyl, Abdolhossein Abdollahi and Tom Pyszczynski
University of Missouri at Columbia, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Limerick and University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
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terror management, extremism, violence, war, terrorism, peace, ideology, threat, group conflict, politics

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Drawing Attention to Global Climate Change Decreases Support for War

Pyszczynski, T., Motyl, M., Vail, K. E., Hirschberger, G., Arndt, J., & Kesebir, P. (2012). Drawing attention to global climate change decreases support for war. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 01 Oct 2012
Tom Pyszczynski, Matt Motyl, Kenneth Vail, Gilad Hirschberger, Jamie Arndt and Pelin Kesebir
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Missouri at Columbia, Reichman University - Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliyah, University of Missouri at Columbia and University of Wisconsin-Madison - Center for Investigating Healthy Minds
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global climate change, terror management theory, existential anxiety, peace psychology, intergroup conflict, intergroup violence

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The Aftermath of Destruction: Images of Destroyed Buildings Increase Support for War, Dogmatism, and Death Thought Accessibility

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 28 May 2012
Kenneth Vail, Jamie Arndt, Matt Motyl and Tom Pyszczynski
University of Missouri at Columbia, University of Missouri at Columbia, University of Illinois at Chicago and University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
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terror management, broken windows, death, dogmatism, ideological certainty, conservative shift, worldview defense, war, terrorism, destruction, conflict

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Waging Terror: Psychological Motivation in Cultural Violence and Peacemaking

THE DAY THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING: THE IMPACT OF 9/11, pp. 23-36, M. Morgan, P. Zimbardo, ed., Praeger/Greenwood Press, 2009
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 21 Feb 2011
Matt Motyl, Kenneth Vail and Tom Pyszczynski
University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Missouri at Columbia and University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
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terrorism, terror management, group conflict, political psychology, violence, war, peace

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Compassionate Values and Presidential Politics: Mortality Salience, Compassionate Values, and Support for Barack Obama and John Mccain in the 2008 Presidential Election

Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, Vol. 9, pp. 255-268, 2009
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 20 Feb 2011
Kenneth Vail, Jamie Arndt, Matt Motyl and Tom Pyszczynski
University of Missouri at Columbia, University of Missouri at Columbia, University of Illinois at Chicago and University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
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politics, Obama, compassion, terror management, political attitudes, threat, voting preferences

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Support for Diplomacy: Peacemaking and Militarism as a Unidimensional Correlate of Social, Environmental, and Political Attitudes

Peace and Conflict: The Journal of Peace Psychology, Vol. 16, pp. 29-57, 2010
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 04 Mar 2011
Kenneth Vail and Matt Motyl
University of Missouri at Columbia and University of Illinois at Chicago
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diplomacy, peacemaking, war, politics, elections, voting intentions, voting behavior, attitudes, psychometrics, support for diplomacy, extremism