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Vess, Matthew Associate Professor
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- Associate Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences
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Publications
selected publications
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academic article
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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.
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Vess, M., Stichter, M., Hicks, J. A., & Schlegel, R. J.
(2023).
Virtue and authenticity in civic life. Journal of Moral Education.
52(1), 83-94.
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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.
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Vess, M., & Maffly-Kipp, J.
(2022).
Parenting Practices and Authenticity in Mothers and Fathers. Sex Roles.
87(9-10), 487-497.
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Wheat, R., Vess, M., & Holte, P.
(2022).
GENETIC RISK INFORMATION INFLUENCES RISK-TAKING BEHAVIOR. Social Cognition.
40(4), 387-395.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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Vess, M.
(2019).
A broader look at terror management, death, and belief in the supernatural. Religion, Brain and Behavior.
9(2), 200-203.
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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.
49(2), 168-174.
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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., 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. Journal of Positive Psychology.
13(4), 419-428.
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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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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.
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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.
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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: The Interplay Between Perceptions of Morality and Self-Knowledge. 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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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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Begnoche, J. P., Brooker, R. J., & Vess, M.
(2016).
EEG Asymmetry and ERN: Behavioral Outcomes in Preschoolers. PLoS ONE.
11(5), e0155713-e0155713.
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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.
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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.
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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.
(2015).
Authenticity and self-esteem across temporal horizons. Journal of Positive Psychology.
10(2), 116-126.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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: considering the positive trajectories of terror management. 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: an international journal of peer commentary and review.
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., Arndt, J., Routledge, C., Sedikides, C., & Wildschut, T.
(2012).
Nostalgia as a Resource for the Self. Self and Identity.
11(3), 273-284.
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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.
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Vess, M.
(2012).
Warm thoughts: attachment anxiety and sensitivity to temperature cues. 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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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.
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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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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.
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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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Arndt, J., & Vess, M.
(2008).
Tales from Existential Oceans: Terror Management Theory and How the Awareness of Our Mortality Affects Us All. Social and Personality Psychology Compass.
2(2), 909-928.
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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.
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chapter
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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.
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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).
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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.
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conference paper
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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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Begnoche, J. P., Brooker, R. J., Vess, M. K., & Buss, K. A.
(2015).
EEG ASYMMETRY AND ERN: TEMPERAMENTAL OUTCOMES IN PRESCHOOLERS. Psychophysiology.
S114-S114.
Teaching
teaching activities
- PBSI315 Social Psychology Instructor
- PBSI411 Psychology Of Self Instructor
- PBSI484 Field Experiences Instructor
- PBSI485 Directed Studies Instructor
- PBSI491 Hnr-research Instructor
- PBSI621 Seminar In Social Psy Instructor
- PBSI670 Prof Sem Social Psyc Instructor
- PBSI691 Research Instructor
- PSYC315 Social Psychology Instructor
- PSYC315 Social Psychology Instructor
- PSYC411 Psychology Of Self Instructor
- PSYC484 Field Experiences Instructor
- PSYC484 Field Experiences Instructor
- PSYC670 Prof Sem Social Psyc Instructor
- PSYC689 Sptp: Interdis View Of Soc Psy Instructor
- PSYC689 Sptp: Social Psyc Of Motivatio 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