Curriculum Vitae
Jamie Lynn Goldenberg
Department of Psychology
University of South Florida
4202 E. Fowler Ave.
Tampa, FL 33620
EDUCATION
2000University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO
Post-doc, Terror Management Theory
1997George Washington University, Washington, DC
Ph.D. in Social Psychology
1992Montclair State College, Upper Montclair, NJ
B.A. in Psychology
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2008 – presentAssociate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
2005 – 2008Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
2003 – 2005 Assistant Research Professor, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, CA
2000 – 2003Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Boise State University, Boise, ID
1997 – 2000 Postdoctoral Research Associate, under Dr. Tom Pyszczynski, Department of Psychology, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO
COURSES TAUGHT
Honors Program in Psychology
The Self (Seminars taught at both graduate and undergraduate level)
Introduction to Psychological Sciences
Social Psychology
Research Methods
Human Sexuality
GRANTS
2009National Institutes of Health (R01), Impact of mortality concerns on cancer risk behavior
(competitive continuation)
Co-PI (with Jamie Arndt, University of Missouri-Columbia).
▪ Awarded $1,373,018 to support 5 years of research.
2008American Cancer Society—Institutional Research Grant (Moffitt Cancer Center),Test of a terror management health model intervention on suntan intentions and behavior.
▪ Awarded $30,000 to support 1 year of research.
2002 – 2007National Institutes of Health (R01), Impact of mortality concerns on cancer risk behavior.
Co-PI (with Jamie Arndt, University of Missouri-Columbia).
▪ Awarded $1,378,727 to support 5 years of research.
2006USF New Researcher Grant,The management of mortality concerns among parents.
▪ Awarded $4,920 to help support graduate students for summer 07.
2001Research Associate Grant, Boise State University.
▪ Awarded $4,940 for course release while writing NIH proposal.
ADDITIONAL AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
2007Awardee, College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Research and Development Award (USF)
2006Honorable Mention for Theoretical Innovation,Society of Personality and Social Psychology, for“Attachment, self-esteem, worldviews, and terror management: Evidence for a tripartite security system,” published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
2006Fellow,Society for Experimental Social Psychology
2004Finalist, Academic Federation Award for Excellence in Research (UC Davis)
2002Awardee, Faculty Research Award (BSU)
2001Awardee, Faculty Teaching Award (BSU)
UNIVERSITY SERVICE (USF)
2008 – presentOmbudsperson, for the Psychology Dept
2010 – presentChair, Department Colloquium Committee
2011Member,Discipline Committee (for promotion to Distinguished Professor)
2011Member,Instructional Career Track ReviewCommittee
2008 – 2009Member,Honors’ Program Evaluation Committee
2008Member,Department Tenure and Promotion Committee
2007 –2010Member, Faculty Senate Committee on Student Admissions
2006 – 2009Member, Department Colloquium Committee
2006 & 2008Panelist, Internal Award Committee
2006 & 2008Reviewer, Internal Award Committee
2005Member, Social Psychology Faculty Search Committee
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Member: Award Nomination Panel for the Theoretical Innovation Prize, Society for Personality and Social Psychology (2011)
Guest Editor: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (2011)
Editorial Boards: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: PPID(2011-2013),Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (2009-2012),and British Journal of Social Psychology(2010-present).
Ad-hoc Journal Reviewing:Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Personality and Social Psychology Review, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Personality and Individual Differences, Self and Identity, European Journal of Social Psychology, Asian Journal of Social Psychology, British Journal of Social Psychology, International Journal of Psychology,The Western Journal of Communication, Theory and Psychology, Australian Religion Studies Review,Death Studies, Gender Issues, Journal of Personality, Journal of Research in Personality, Depression and Anxiety, American Journal of Media Psychology, Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, and Practice, Social Justice Research, Social Cognition, The Open Psychology Journal, Evolutionary Psychology, Basic and Applied Social Psychology,Journal of Health Psychology, Psychological Review, Psychological Bulletin, Health Psychology
Ad-hoc Grant Reviewing:National Science Foundation
Outside Reviewer: University of Alberta (2011) and University of Padua (2010- 2011)
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
Cooper, D. P., Goldenberg, J. L., & Arndt, J. (in press). Empowering the Self: Using the Terror Management Health
Model to Promote Breast Self-Examination. Special Issue of Self & Identity: Self- and Identity Regulation and Health.
Heflick, N. A., & Goldenberg, J. L. (in press). Reply to comments on “Sarah Palin, a nation object(ifie)s.” Sex Roles: A
Journal of Research.
Heflick, N. A., & Goldenberg, J. L. (in press). Sarah Palin, a nation object (ifie)s: The role of appearance focus in the 2008
U.S. Presidential Election. Sex Roles: A Journal of Research.
Gillath, O., Landau, M. J., Selcuk, E., & Goldenberg, J. L. (in press). Dying to have sex: Effects of a low
survivability cue and participant sex on physiological and behavioral responses to sexual stimuli. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
McGinty, H. L., Goldenberg, J. L., & P. J., Jacobsen (in press). Relationship of threat appraisal with coping appraisal to
fear of cancer recurrence in breast cancer survivors. Psycho-Oncology.
Heflick, N. A., & Goldenberg, J. L. (in press). No atheists in foxholes: Afterlife evidence buffers mortality salienceeffects
in atheists. British Journal of Social Psychology.
Goldenberg, J. L., Cooper, D. P., Heflick, N. A., Routledge, C., & Arndt, J. (2011). Is objectification always
harmful?: Reactions to objectifying images and feedback as a function of self-objectification and mortality salience. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 443-448.
Birnbaum, G. E., Hirschberger, G., & Goldenberg, J. L. (2011). Desire in the face of death: Terror management, attachment,
and sexual motivation. Personal Relationships, 18, 1-19.
Heflick, N.A., Goldenberg, J.L., Cooper, D.P., & Puvia, E. (2011). From women to objects: Appearance focus, target
gender, and perceptions of warmth, morality and competence. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 572-581.
Vaes, J., Heflick, N. A., & Goldenberg, J. L. (2010). “We are people”: In-group humanization as an existential
defense. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 98, 750-60.
Cooper, D. P., Goldenberg, J. L., & Arndt, J. (2010). Examination of the terror management health model: The interactive
effects of conscious death thought and health-coping variables in potentially fatal health domains. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin,36,937-946.
Vess, M., Arndt, J., Cox, C. R., Routledge, C., & Goldenberg, J. L. (2009). The terror management of medical
decisions: The effect of mortality salience and religious fundamentalism on support for faith-based medical intervention. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,97, 334-350.
Heflick, N. A., & Goldenberg, J. L. (2009). Objectifying Sarah Palin: Evidence that objectification causes women
to be perceived as less competent and less fully human. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 598-601.
Goldenberg, J. L., Routledge, C., & Arndt, J. (2009). Mammograms and the management of existential
discomfort: Threats associated with the physicality of the body and neuroticism. Psychology and Health, 24, 563-581.
Goldenberg, J. L., Heflick, N. A., Vaes, J., Motyl, M., & Greenberg, J. (2009). Of Mice and Men, and Objectified
Women: A Terror Management Account of Infra-humanization. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 12, 763-776.
Arndt, J., Cox, C. R., Goldenberg, J. L., Vess, M., Routledge, C., Cooper, D. P., & Cohen, F. (2009). Blowing inthe
(social) wind: Implications of extrinsic esteem contingencies for terror management and health. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96, 1191-1205.
Cox, C. R., Cooper, D. P., Vess, M., Arndt, J., Goldenberg, J. L., Routledge, C. (2009). Bronze is beautiful but
pale can be pretty: The effects of appearance standards and mortality salience on sun-tanning outcomes. Health Psychology, 28, 746-752.
Vess, M., Arndt, J., Cox, C. R., Routledge, C., & Goldenberg, J. L. (2009). The psychosocial effect of thoughts of
personal mortality on cardiac risk assessment among medical students. Medical Decision Making,29, 175-181.
Goldenberg, J. L., & Arndt, J. (2008). The implications of death for health: A terror management model of
behavioral health promotion. Psychological Review, 15, 1032-1053.
Goldenberg, J. L., Heflick, N. A., & Cooper, D. P. (2008). The thrust of the problem: Bodily inhibitions and guilt as a
function of mortality salience and neuroticism. Journal of Personality, 76, 1055-1080.
Goldenberg, J. L., Arndt, J., Hart, J., & Routledge, C. (2008). Uncovering an existential barrier to breast self-exam
behavior. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 260-274.
Goldenberg, J. L., Cox, C.R., Arndt, J., & Goplen, J. (2007). “Viewing” pregnancy as existential threat: The effects of
creatureliness on reactions to media depictions of the pregnant body.Media Psychology, 10, 211-230.
Cox, C. R., Goldenberg, J. L., Arndt, J., & Pyszczynski, T. (2007). Mother’s milk: An existential perspective on
negative reactions to breastfeeding. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 110-122.
Cox, C. R., Goldenberg, J. L., Pyszczynski, T., & Weise, D. (2007). Disgust, creatureliness, and the accessibility of
death related thoughts. European Journal of Social Psychology, 37, 494-507.
Arndt, J., Cook, A., Goldenberg, J. L., & Cox, C. R. (2007). Cancer and the threat of death: The cognitive dynamics of
death thought suppression and its impact on behavioral health intentions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92, 12-29.
Goldenberg, J. L., Kosloff, S., & Greenberg, J. (2006). Existential underpinnings of approach and avoidance of the
physical body. Motivation and Emotion, 30,127-134.
Landau, M. J., Goldenberg, J. L., Greenberg, J., Gillath, O., Solomon, S., Cox, C., Martens, A., & Pyszczynski, T.
(2006). The siren’s call: Terror management and the threat of sexual attraction. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 129-146.
Goldenberg, J. L., Hart, J., Pyszczynski, T., Warnica, G. M., Landau, M. J., & Thomas, L. (2006). Terror of the body:
Death, neuroticism, and the flight from physical sensation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 1264-
1277.
Arndt, J., Routledge, C., & Goldenberg, J. L. (2006). Predicting proximal health responses to reminders of death: The
influence of coping style and health optimism. Psychology and Health, 21, 593-614.
Goldenberg, J. L. (2005). The body stripped down: An existential account of ambivalence toward the physical body.
Current Directions in Psychological Science, 14, 224-228.
Goldenberg, J. L., Arndt, J., Hart, J., & Brown, M. (2005). Dying to be thin: The effects of mortality salience and
body-mass index on restricted eating among women. Personality of Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 1400-1412.
Wisman, A., & Goldenberg, J. L. (2005). From the grave to the cradle: Evidence that mortality salience engenders a
desire for offspring. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89, 46-61.
Hart, J., Shaver, P. R., & Goldenberg, J. L. (2005). Attachment, self-esteem, worldviews, and terror management:
Evidence for a tripartite security system. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88, 999-1013.
Martens, A., Goldenberg, J. L., & Greenberg, J. (2005). A terror management perspective on ageism. Journal of
Social Issues, 61, 223-239.
Arndt, J., Routledge, C., Cox, C.R., & Goldenberg, J. G. (2005). The worm at the core: A terror management
perspective on the roots of psychological dysfunction. Applied and Preventive Psychology, 11, 191-213.
Goldenberg, J. L., & Shackelford, T. I. (2005). Is it me or is it mine?: Body-self integration as a function of self-
esteem, body-esteem, and mortality salience. Self and Identity, 4, 227-241.
Landau, M. J., Johns, M., Greenberg, J., Pyszczynski, T., Martens, A., Goldenberg, J. L., & Solomon, S. (2004). A
function of form: Terror management and structuring the social world. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87, 190-210.
Routledge, C., Arndt, J., & Goldenberg, J. L. (2004). A time to tan: Proximal and distal effects of mortality salience
on sun exposure intentions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 1347-1358.
Arndt, J., & Goldenberg, J. L. (2004). From self-awareness to shame-proneness: Evidence of causal sequence
among women. Self and Identity, 3, 27-37.
Arndt, J., Schimel, J., & Goldenberg, J. L. (2003). Death can be good for your health: Fitness intentions as a
proximal and distal defense against mortality salience. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 33, 1726-1746.
Goldenberg, J. L., Landau, M., Pyszczynski, T., Cox, C., Greenberg, J., Solomon, S, & Dunnam, H. (2003). Sex-
typical responses to sexual and emotional infidelity as a function of mortality salience induced self-esteem striving. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29, 1585-1595.
Goldenberg, J. L., Cox, C., Pyszczynski, T., Greenberg, J., & Solomon, S. (2002). Understanding human ambivalence
about sex: The effects of stripping sex of its meaning. Journal of Sex Research, 39, 310-320.
Roberts, T. A., Goldenberg, J. L., Manly, C., & Pyszczynski, T. (2002). Feminine protection: The effects of menstruation
on attitudes toward woman. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 26, 131-139.
Hirschberger, G., Florian, V., Mikulincer, M., Goldenberg, J. L., & Pyszczynski, T. (2002). Gender differences in the
willingness to engage in risky behavior: A terror management perspective. Death Studies, 26, 117-142.
Goldenberg, J. L., Pyszczynski, T., Greenberg, J., Solomon, S., Kluck, B., & Cornwell, R. (2001). I am NOT an animal:
Mortality salience, disgust, and the denial of human creatureliness. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 130, 427-435.
Goldenberg, J. L., Pyszczynski, T. Greenberg, J., & Solomon, S. (2000). Fleeing the body: A terror management
perspective on the problem of human corporeality. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 4, 200-218.
Goldenberg, J. L., McCoy, S. K., Pyszczynski, T. Greenberg, J., & Solomon, S. (2000). The body as a source of self-
esteem: The effects of mortality salience on identification with one’s body, the appeal of sex, and appearance monitoring. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 118-130.
Goldenberg, J. L., Pyszczynski, T., McCoy, S. K., Greenberg, J., & Solomon, S. (1999). Death, sex, love, and
neuroticism: Why is sex such a problem? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 1173-1187.
Goldenberg, J. L., Pyszczynski, T., Johnson, K. D., Greenberg, J., & Solomon, S. (1999). The appeal of tragedy: The
effects of mortality salience on emotional response. Media Psychology, 1, 313-329.
Pyszczynski, T., & Goldenberg, J. L. (1999). Self-awareness, future-orientation, and human social motivation.
Psychological Inquiry, 10, 232-235.
Goldenberg, J. L., Ginexi, E. M., Sigelman, C. K., & Poppen, P. J. (1999). Just say no: American and Japanese
styles of refusing unwanted sexual advances. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 29, 889-902.
Sigelman, C. K., Goldenberg, J. L., Lewin, C. B., & Dwyer, K. (1998). Parental drug use and the socialization of AIDS
knowledge and attitudes in children. AIDS Education and Prevention, 10, 180-192.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Goldenberg, J. L., & Roberts, T. A. (2010). The birthmark: An existential account of why women are objectified.
In R. Calogero, S. Tantleff-Dunn & J. K. Thompson (Eds.), The Objectification of Women: Innovative Directions in Research and Practice(pp. 77-100). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Arndt, J., & Goldenberg, J. L. (2010). When self-enhancement drives health decisions: Insights from a Terror
Management Health Model. In M. Alicke and C. Sedikides (Eds.), Handbook of Self-Enhancement and Self-Protection(pp. 380-398). New York: Guilford Press.
Roberts, T. A., & Goldenberg, J. L. (2007). Wrestling with nature: An existential perspective on the body and gender
in self-conscious emotions. In J. Tracy, R. Robins, & J. Tangney (Eds.), The Self-Conscious Emotions: Theory
and Research(pp. 389-406). New York: Guilford Press.
Hart, J., & Goldenberg, J. L. (2007). A terror management perspective on spirituality and the problem of the body. In A.
Tomer, G.T. Eliason, & P.T.P. Wong(Eds.), Existential and Spiritual Issues in Death Attitudes(pp. 91-113). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Goldenberg, J. L., & Roberts, T. A. (2004). The beast within the beauty: An existential perspective on the
objectification and condemnation of women. In J. Greenberg, S. L., Koole, and T. Pyszczynski (Eds.), Handbook of Experimental Existential Psychology(pp. 71-85). New York: Guilford Press.
Pyszczynski, T., Greenberg, J., & Goldenberg, J. L. (2003). Freedom vs. fear: On the defense, growth, and
expansion of the self. In M. R. Leary and J. P. Tangney (Eds.), Handbook of Self and Identity (pp. 314-343). New York: Guilford Press.
Arndt, J., & Goldenberg, J. L. (2002). From threat to sweat: The role of physiological arousal in the motivation to
maintain self-esteem. In A. Tesser, D.A. Stapel, and J.V. Wood (Eds.), Self and Motivation: Emerging Psychological Perspectives(pp. 43-70). Washington DC: American Psychological Association.
Arndt, J., Goldenberg, J. L., Solomon, S., Greenberg, J., & Pyszczynski, T. (2000). Death can be hazardous to your
heath: Adaptive and ironic consequences of defense against the terror of death. In P. R. Duberstain & J. M. Masling (Eds.), Psychodynamic Perspectives on Sickness and Health (pp. 201-258). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Goldenberg, J. L. (in press). Terror Management Theory. In R.L. Jackson (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Identity. Thousands
Oaks, CA: Sage.
Goldenberg, J.L. & Heflick, N.A. (2009). Peeling away the media reaction to ‘Objectifying Sarah Palin.’ Miller-
McCune.com, March, 13.
Goldenberg, J. L. (2007). Misattribution of arousal. In R. Baumeister & K. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social
Psychology. Thousands Oaks, CA: Sage.
MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW/REVISION
Motyl, M., Hart, J., Cooper, D. P., Heflick, N. A., Goldenberg, J. L., & Pyszczynski, T. (under review). Creatureliness
priming reduces aggression and support for war.
Arndt, J., Vail. K. E., III., Cox, C. R., Goldenberg, J. L. Piasecki, T. M., & Gibbons, F. X. (under review). Dying for a
smoke: The interactive effect of mortality reminders and tobacco craving on smoking topography.
Cooper. D. P., Goldenberg, J. L., & Arndt, J. (under review). Perceived efficacy, conscious fear of death, and sun
protection intentions: Not all fear appeals are created equal.
Goldenberg, J. L., Roberts, T-A., Morris, K. L., & Cooper, D. P. (under review). Monstrously mortal:Women’s bodies,
existential threat, and women’s health risks.
Goldenberg, J. L. (under review).A body of terror: Denial of death and the creaturely body.
McCabe, J., Vail. K. E., III., Arndt. J., & Goldenberg, J. L. (under review). Multi-layered meanings in health decision
making: A terror management health model analysis.
SYMPOSIA AND COLLOQUIA PRESENTATIONS
Goldenberg, J. L. (2011, April). Invited colloquia at the Fourth Herzliya Symposium on Personality and Social Psychology, (topic: The social psychology of meaning, mortality, and choice), Herzliya, Israel
Heflick, N. A. & Goldenberg, J. L. (2010, October). Fear of death and body-self dualism: The why and how of afterlife
belief. In S. Kim (chair), Implications of Religion for the Self: From Emotion and Cognition to Behavior.Symposium conducted at the annual meeting for the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, Minneapolis, MN.
Goldenberg, J. L. & Heflick, N. A. (2010, February). Woman as objects: The effects of appearance focus on perceptions
of women’s competence, warmth, and humanness. In S. Loughnan and A. Mewheiser (chairs), The Nature, Causes and Consequences of Objectification. Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa, FL.
Heflick, N. A. & Goldenberg, J. L. (2010, February). Fear of death and body-self dualism: The why and how of afterlife
belief. In J. Hart (chair), Existential Epistemology: The Science of Motivate Knowledge Construction. Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa, FL.
Goldenberg, J.L. & Cooper, D. P. (2009, November). The implications of death for health: A terror management heath for
behavioral health promotion. In K. Salomon (chair), Social/Health Psychology: Transdisciplinary Approaches.
Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of the Society of Southeastern Social Psychologists, Ft. Meyers, FL.
Goldenberg, J. L. (2009, February). The implications of death for health: A terror management heath for behavioral
health promotion. In J. A. Shepperd and J. Arndt (chairs), Health Research in Social and Personality
Psychology. Symposium conducted at the pre-conference for the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa, FL.
Goldenberg, J. L. (2008, December). The implications of death for health: A terror management heath for behavioral
health promotion. In Barriers to Health and Wellness: Integrating Psychological Principles to Promote Behavior
Change. Departmental Colloquium Series, Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.
Goldenberg, J. L. (2008, September). The implications of death for health: A terror management heath for behavioral
health promotion. Colloquium Series of the Psychological Sciences Organization, Department of Psychology,
University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL.
Goldenberg, J. L. (2008, September). The implications of death for health: A terror management heath for behavioral
health promotion. CNS Colloquium Series, Department of Psychology, University of South Florida,
Tampa, FL.
Goldenberg, J. L. (2008, February). Implicit Terror: The effects of non-conscious vs. conscious death thought
activation. In Implicit/Automatic Processes. Departmental Colloquium Series, Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.
Goldenberg, J. L. (2007, October). The existential threat of women’s creaturely nature. In T. A. Roberts (chair),
Theoretical and Empirical Advances in Objectification Theory. Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, Chicago, IL.
Landau, M. J., & Goldenberg, J. L. (2007, January). Existential embodied cognition: The body as a reminder of mortality
and a vehicle for death transcending meaning. In G. Semin and S. Koole (chairs), How the Human Body Shapes the Social Mind: Emerging Perspectives in Embodied Social Cognition. Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, TN.
Hart, J., Shaver, P. R., & Goldenberg, J. L. (2007, January). More evidence for a security system model of attachment,