selected publications academic article Maffly-Kipp, J., Holte, P. N., Stichter, M., Hicks, J. A., Schlegel, R. J., & Vess, M. (2023). Civic Hope and the Perceived Authenticity of Democratic Participation. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 14(4), 419-427. Vess, M., Stichter, M., Hicks, J., & Schlegel, R. (2023). Virtue and authenticity in civic life. Journal of Moral Education. 52(1), 83-94. Wheat, R., Vess, M., & Holte, P. (2022). GENETIC RISK INFORMATION INFLUENCES RISK-TAKING BEHAVIOR. Social Cognition. 40(4), 387-395. Nyman, T., Stichter, M., Rivera, G. N., Maffly-Kipp, J., Brooker, R. J., & Vess, M. (2022). Genetic causal beliefs and developmental context: Parents' beliefs predict psychologically controlling approaches to parenting. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. 39(11), 3487-3505. Vess, M., & Maffly-Kipp, J. (2022). Intentional mindwandering and unintentional mindwandering are differentially associated with the experience of self-alienation. Personality and Individual Differences. 185, 111289-111289. Vess, M., & Maffly-Kipp, J. (2022). Parenting Practices and Authenticity in Mothers and Fathers. Sex Roles: a journal of research. 87(9-10), 487-497. Maffly-Kipp, J., Rivera, G. N., Schlegel, R. J., & Vess, M. (2022). The Effect of True Self-Attributions on the Endorsement of Retributive and Restorative Justice. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 48(8), 1284-1297. Maffly-Kipp, J., Flanagan, P. N., Schlegel, R. J., & Vess, M. (2022). True self-attributions shape judgments of blame in the context of addiction-relevant crime. Addictive Behaviors. 130, 107287-107287. Rivera, G. N., Vess, M., Brooker, R. J., Stichter, M., & Neiderhiser, J. M. (2021). Exploring Relations between Beliefs about the Genetic Etiology of Virtue and the Endorsement of Parenting Practices. Parenting: Science and Practice. 21(2), 79-107. Maffly-Kipp, J., Flanagan, P., Kim, J., Rivera, G., Friedman, M. D., Vess, M., & Hicks, J. A. (2021). Meaning-Making, Psychological Distress, and the Experience of Meaning in Life Following a Natural Disaster. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 12(5), 812-820. Dormanen, R., Sanders, C. S., Maffly-Kipp, J., Smith, J. L., & Vess, M. (2020). Assimilation Undercuts Authenticity: A Consequence of Women's Masculine Self-Presentation in Masculine Contexts. Psychology of Women Quarterly. 44(4), 488-502. Rivera, G. N., Vess, M., Hicks, J. A., & Routledge, C. (2020). Awe and meaning: Elucidating complex effects of awe experiences on meaning in life. European Journal of Social Psychology. 50(2), 392-405. Maffly-Kipp, J., Flanagan, P., Kim, J., Schlegel, R. J., Vess, M., & Hicks, J. A. (2020). THE ROLE OF PERCEIVED AUTHENTICITY IN PSYCHOLOGICAL RECOVERY FROM COLLECTIVE TRAUMA. JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY. 39(5), 419-448. Vess, M. (2019). A broader look at terror management, death, and belief in the supernatural. Religion, Brain and Behavior. 9(2), 200-203. Vess, M., Brooker, R. J., Schlegel, R. J., & Hicks, J. A. (2019). Daily mental lapses and the subjective experience of true self-alienation. Journal of Research in Personality. 78, 148-152. Vess, M., Brooker, R. J., Stichter, M., & Neiderhiser, J. M. (2019). Genes and Virtue: Exploring How Heritability Beliefs Shape Conceptions of Virtue and Its Development. Behavior Genetics: an international journal devoted to research in the inheritance of behavior in animals and man. 49(2), 168-174. Rivera, G. N., Christy, A. G., Kim, J., Vess, M., Hicks, J. A., & Schlegel, R. J. (2019). Understanding the Relationship Between Perceived Authenticity and Well-Being. Review of General Psychology. 23(1), 113-126. Vess, M. (2019). Varieties of Conscious Experience and the Subjective Awareness of One's "True" Self. Review of General Psychology. 23(1), 89-98. Vess, M., Hoeldtke, R., Leal, S. A., Sanders, C. S., & Hicks, J. A. (2018). The subjective quality of episodic future thought and the experience of meaning in life. The Journal of Positive Psychology: dedicated to furthering research and promoting good practice. 13(4), 419-428. Christy, A. G., Kim, J., Vess, M., Schlegel, R. J., & Hicks, J. A. (2017). The Reciprocal Relationship Between Perceptions of Moral Goodness and Knowledge of Others' True Selves. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 8(8), 910-917. Christy, A. G., Sanders, C. S., Vess, M., Routledge, C., & Schlegel, R. J. (2017). The true self and existential structure? Unexpected effects of mortality salience and personal need for structure on belief in a true self. Self and Identity. 16(3), 335-352. Vess, M., Rogers, R., Routledge, C., & Hicks, J. A. (2017). When being far away is good: Exploring how mortality salience, regulatory mode, and goal progress affect judgments of meaning in life. European Journal of Social Psychology. 47(1), 82-91. Christy, A. G., Seto, E., Schlegel, R. J., Vess, M., & Hicks, J. A. (2016). Straying From the Righteous Path and From Ourselves: The Interplay Between Perceptions of Morality and Self-Knowledge. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 42(11), 1538-1550. Vess, M., Leal, S. A., Hoeldtke, R. T., Schlegel, R. J., & Hicks, J. A. (2016). True self-alienation positively predicts reports of mindwandering. Consciousness and Cognition. 45, 89-99. Seto, E., Hicks, J. A., Vess, M., & Geraci, L. (2016). The association between vivid thoughts of death and authenticity. Motivation and Emotion. 40(4), 520-540. Rogers, R., Vess, M., & Routlege, C. (2016). Construal Level Shapes Associations Between Political Conservatism and Reactions to Male Same-Sex Intimacy. SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY. 47(2), 87-97. Rogers, R., Vess, M., Routledge, C., & Juhl, J. (2016). Mortality Salience Decreases Social Exploration When People Experience Metacognitive Ease Generating Examples of Cultural Value Adherence. Self and Identity. 15(1), 62-71. Begnoche, J. P., Brooker, R. J., & Vess, M. (2016). EEG Asymmetry and ERN: Behavioral Outcomes in Preschoolers. PLoS One. 11(5), e0155713-e0155713. Davis, W. E., Hicks, J. A., Schlegel, R. J., Smith, C. M., & Vess, M. (2015). Authenticity and self-esteem across temporal horizons. The Journal of Positive Psychology: dedicated to furthering research and promoting good practice. 10(2), 116-126. Bench, S. W., Schlegel, R. J., Davis, W. E., & Vess, M. (2015). THINKING ABOUT CHANGE IN THE SELF AND OTHERS: THE ROLE OF SELF-DISCOVERY METAPHORS AND THE TRUE SELF. Social Cognition. 33(3), 169-185. McCabe, S., Arndt, J., Goldenberg, J. L., Vess, M., Vail, K. E., Gibbons, F. X., & Rogers, R. (2015). The effect of visualizing healthy eaters and mortality reminders on nutritious grocery purchases: an integrative terror management and prototype willingness analysis. HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY. 34(3), 279-282. Vess, M., Schlegel, R. J., Hicks, J. A., & Arndt, J. (2014). Guilty, but not ashamed: "true" self-conceptions influence affective responses to personal shortcomings. Journal of Personality. 82(3), 213-224. Routledge, C., Juhl, J., Vess, M., Cathey, C., & Liao, J. (2013). Who Uses Groups to Transcend the Limits of the Individual Self? Exploring the Effects of Interdependent Self-Construal and Mortality Salience on Investment in Social Groups. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 4(4), 483-491. Routledge, C., Juhl, J., & Vess, M. (2013). Mortality salience increases death-anxiety for individuals low in personal need for structure. Motivation and Emotion. 37(2), 303-307. Vail, K. E., Juhl, J., Arndt, J., Vess, M., Routledge, C., & Rutjens, B. T. (2012). When death is good for life: considering the positive trajectories of terror management. Personality and Social Psychology Review. 16(4), 303-329. Routledge, C., & Vess, M. (2012). More Than Meets the Eye: There's More to Meaning Maintenance Than Violated Expectations. Psychological Inquiry: an international journal of peer commentary and review. 23(4), 374-380. Vess, M., Arndt, J., & Cox, C. R. (2012). Faith and Nature: The Effect of Death-Relevant Cognitions on the Relationship Between Religious Fundamentalism and Connectedness to Nature. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 3(3), 333-340. Vess, M. (2012). Warm thoughts: attachment anxiety and sensitivity to temperature cues. Psychological Science. 23(5), 472-474. Vess, M., Arndt, J., Routledge, C., Sedikides, C., & Wildschut, T. (2012). Nostalgia as a Resource for the Self. Self and Identity. 11(3), 273-284. Schlegel, R. J., Vess, M., & Arndt, J. (2012). To discover or to create: metaphors and the true self. Journal of Personality. 80(4), 969-993. Vess, M., Arndt, J., & Schlegel, R. J. (2011). Abstract construal levels attenuate state self-esteem reactivity. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 47(4), 861-864. Landau, M. J., Vess, M., Arndt, J., Rothschild, Z. K., Sullivan, D., & Atchley, R. A. (2011). Embodied metaphor and the "true" self: Priming entity expansion and protection influences intrinsic self-expressions in self-perceptions and interpersonal behavior. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 47(1), 79-87. Routledge, C., Juhl, J., & Vess, M. (2010). Divergent Reactions to the Terror of Terrorism: Personal Need for Structure Moderates the Effects of Terrorism Salience on Worldview-Related Attitudinal Rigidity. Basic and Applied Social Psychology. 32(3), 243-249. Vess, M., Routledge, C., Landau, M. J., & Arndt, J. (2009). The dynamics of death and meaning: the effects of death-relevant cognitions and personal need for structure on perceptions of meaning in life. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 97(4), 728-744. Vess, M., Arndt, J., Cox, C. R., Routledge, C., & Goldenberg, J. L. (2009). Exploring the existential function of religion: the effect of religious fundamentalism and mortality salience on faith-based medical refusals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 97(2), 334-350. Arndt, J., Cox, C. R., Goldenberg, J. L., Vess, M., Routledge, C., Cooper, D. P., & Cohen, F. (2009). Blowing in the (social) wind: implications of extrinsic esteem contingencies for terror management and health. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 96(6), 1191-1205. Arndt, J., Vess, M., Cox, C. R., Goldenberg, J. L., & Lagle, S. (2009). The psychosocial effect of thoughts of personal mortality on cardiac risk assessment. 29(2), 175-181. 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(6), 746-752. Vess, M., & Arndt, J. (2008). Social Support, Money, and the Chicago Cubs: Toward a Deeper Understanding of Symbolic Pain Management Through Metaphor and Higher Order Goals. Psychological Inquiry: an international journal of peer commentary and review. 19(3-4), 199-204. Routledge, C., Arndt, J., Vess, M., & Sheldon, K. M. (2008). The life and death of creativity: The effects of mortality salience on self versus social-directed creative expression. Motivation and Emotion. 32(4), 331-338. Vess, M., & Arndt, J. (2008). The nature of death and the death of nature: The impact of mortality salience on environmental concern. Journal of Research in Personality. 42(5), 1376-1380. chapter Vess, M. (2013). Death, the Need for Unambiguous Knowledge, and the Construction and Maintenance of Multi-level Meaning. The Experience of Meaning in Life. (pp. 271-283). Springer Nature. Lieberman, J. D., Arndt, J., & Vess, M. (2009). Inadmissible evidence and pretrial publicity: The effects (and ineffectiveness) of admonitions to disregard. Jury Psychology: Social Aspects of Trial Processes. (pp. 67-95). conference paper Begnoche, J. P., Brooker, R. J., Vess, M. K., & Buss, K. A. (2015). EEG ASYMMETRY AND ERN: TEMPERAMENTAL OUTCOMES IN PRESCHOOLERS. PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY. S114-S114.
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education and training Ph.D. in Social Psychology and Personality, University of Missouri - (Columbia, Missouri, United States) 2010 M.A. in Social Psychology and Personality, University of Missouri - (Columbia, Missouri, United States) 2007 B.A. in Psychology, Ohio University - (Athens, Ohio, United States) 2004