HR job title
- Associate Professor
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Vess, Matthew Associate Professor
Positions
- Associate Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences, College of Liberal Arts
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Publications
selected publications
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academic article
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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.
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Rivera, G. N., Vess, M., Hicks, J. A., & Routledge, C.
(2019).
Awe and meaning: Elucidating complex effects of awe experiences on meaning in life. European Journal of Social Psychology.
50(2), 392-405.
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Vess, M.
(2019).
A broader look at terror management, death, and belief in the supernatural. Religion Brain & Behavior.
9(2), 1-4.
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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.
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Vess, M.
(2019).
Varieties of Conscious Experience and the Subjective Awareness of One’s “True” Self. Review of General Psychology.
23(1), 89-98.
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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.
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Vess, M., Brooker, R. J., Stichter, M., & Neiderhiser, J. M.
(2018).
Genes and Virtue: Exploring How Heritability Beliefs Shape Conceptions of Virtue and Its Development. BEHAVIOR GENETICS.
49(2), 168-174.
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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.
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Vess, M., Hoeldtke, R., Leal, S. A., Sanders, C. S., & Hicks, J. A.
(2017).
The subjective quality of episodic future thought and the experience of meaning in life. The Journal of Positive Psychology.
13(4), 1-10.
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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), 1-18.
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Christy, A. G., Seto, E., Schlegel, R. J., Vess, M., & Hicks, J. A.
(2016).
Straying From the Righteous Path and From Ourselves. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
42(11), 1538-1550.
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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.
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Vess, M., Rogers, R., Routledge, C., & Hicks, J. A.
(2016).
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.
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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.
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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.
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Davis, W. E., Hicks, J. A., Schlegel, R. J., Smith, C. M., & Vess, M.
(2014).
Authenticity and self-esteem across temporal horizons. The Journal of Positive Psychology.
10(2), 116-126.
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Vess, M., Schlegel, R. J., Hicks, J. A., & Arndt, J.
(2013).
Guilty, But Not Ashamed: “True” Self‐Conceptions Influence Affective Responses to Personal Shortcomings. Journal of Personality.
82(3), 213-224.
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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.
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Vail, K. E., Juhl, J., Arndt, J., Vess, M., Routledge, C., & Rutjens, B. T.
(2012).
When Death is Good for Life. Personality and Social Psychology Review.
16(4), 303-329.
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Routledge, C., & Vess, M.
(2012).
More Than Meets the Eye: There's More to Meaning Maintenance Than Violated Expectations. PSYCHOLOGICAL INQUIRY.
23(4), 374-380.
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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.
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Vess, M.
(2012).
Warm Thoughts. Psychological Science.
23(5), 472-474.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. MEDICAL DECISION MAKING.
29(2), 175-181.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Teaching
teaching activities
- PSYC315 Social Psychology Instructor
- PSYC315 Social Psychology Instructor
- PSYC411 Psychology Of Self Instructor
- PSYC484 Field Experiences Instructor
- PSYC484 Field Experiences Instructor
- PSYC485 Directed Studies Instructor
- PSYC491 Hnr-research Instructor
- PSYC670 Prof Sem Social Psyc Instructor
- PSYC685 Directed Studies Instructor
- PSYC689 Sptp: Interdis View Of Soc Psy Instructor
- PSYC689 Sptp: Social Psyc Of Motivatio Instructor
- PSYC691 Research Instructor
Background
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
Contact
first name
- Matthew
has last name
- Vess
mailing address
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Texas A&M University
Psychology
4235 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-4235
USA
Other
- vess@tamu.edu