selected publications academic article 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. Vess, M. (2019). A broader look at terror management, death, and belief in the supernatural. Religion Brain & Behavior. 9(2), 200-203. (2019). Genes and Virtue: Exploring How Heritability Beliefs Shape Conceptions of Virtue and Its Development. BEHAVIOR GENETICS. 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., Brooker, R. J., Schlegel, R. J., & Hicks, J. A. (2019). Daily mental lapses and the subjective experience of true self-alienation. J Res Pers. 78, 148-152. 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. 13(4), 419-428. 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., 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., 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. Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 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. Conscious Cogn. 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. 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. 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. Vess, M., Schlegel, R. J., Hicks, J. A., & Arndt, J. (2014). Guilty, but not ashamed: "true" self-conceptions influence affective responses to personal shortcomings. J Pers. 82(3), 213-224. 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. Pers Soc Psychol Rev. 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. 23(4), 374-380. Vess, M. (2012). Warm thoughts: attachment anxiety and sensitivity to temperature cues. Psychological Science. 23(5), 472-474. 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. J Exp Soc Psychol. 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. Medical Decision Making. 29(2), 175-181. 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. J Res Pers. 42(5), 1376-1380.
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
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