Threat and defense: From anxiety to approach

By E. Jonas, Ian M McGregor, Johannes Klackl, Dmitrij Agroskin, Immo Fritsche, Colin Holbrook, Kyle Nash, T. Proulx, Markus Quirin. 2014

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Evidence for Another Response to Ostracism (2016, background): “However, it can be adaptive at times to step back or walk away (Jonas et al., 2014; Van Kleef et al., 2010), in the sense that it moves individuals away from the threat and prevents them to suffer from additional pain (e.”
How do we get people into contact? Predictors of intergroup contact and drivers of contact seeking (2020, result): “These results for the approach-inducing effects of communication anxiety are consistent with social–neurophysiological evidence and the premises of the reactive approach model (RAM; Jonas et al., 2014; McGregor et al., 2010).”
Terror Management Theory and Research: How the Desire for Death Transcendence Drives Our Strivings for Meaning and Significance (2014, methodology): “There have also been attempts to reduce the diverse responses to thoughts of death to activation of a neurological system that quells aversive emotions induced by threats of all types (Jonas et al., 2014).”
Uncertain Self in a Changing World: A Foundation for Radicalisation, Populism, and Autocratic Leadership (2020, background): “There is little consensus about which motive is primary – some believe it is self-enhancement (Sedikides & Strube, 1997), others that it is need for control (Jonas et al., 2014), and others that it is the pursuit of meaning (Heine et al., 2006) or true knowledge (Higgins, 2019).”
From Uncertainty to Extremism (2014, background): “There is also evidence that group identification does indeed resolve self-uncertainty and relieve associated anxiety, and that this may occur because identification mutes neural activity in parts of the brain that process anxiety ( Jonas et al., 2014).”
Unpacking the inequality paradox: The psychological roots of inequality and social class. (2018, background): “Uncertainty and feelings of reduced personal control—appraisals associated with lower-class standing—cause stress and prompt desires to seek other sources of stability (e.g., Jonas et al., 2014; Piff, Stancato, Martinez, Kraus, & Keltner, 2012).”