CURRICULUM VITAE SPEE KOSLOFF CONTACT INFORMATION Address: Cell Phone: (917) 921-7680 Michigan State University Department of Psychology Office Phone: (517) 355-6645 254 Psychology Building East Lansing, MI 48824 Email: kosloff@msu.edu EDUCATION University of Arizona Ph.D. in Psychology, 2010 (M.A. in Psychology, 2007) Major Area: Social Psychology; Minor Area: Psychophysiology Columbia University Post-baccalaureate Certification in Psychology, 2004 Skidmore College B.A. in English/Philosophy, 2001 EMPLOYMENT HISTORY Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology, Michigan State University (present) Research Associate, University of Arizona (2004-2010) PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Psychological Association (APA) Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR)
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS Goldenberg, J. L., Kosloff, S., & Greenberg, J. (2006). Existential underpinnings of approach and avoidance of the physical body. Motivation and Emotion, 30, 127-134. Greenberg, J., Sullivan, D., Kosloff, S., & Solomon, S. (2006). Souls do not live by cognitive inclinations alone, but by the desire to exist beyond death as well. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29, 474-475. Kosloff, S., & Greenberg, J. (2006). Android science by all means, but let s be canny about it! Interaction studies: Social Behaviour and Communication in biological and Artificial Systems, 7, 343-346. Kosloff, S., Greenberg, J., & Solomon, S. (2006). Considering the roles of affect and culture in the enactment and enjoyment of cruelty. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29, 231-232. Kosloff, S., Solomon, S., Greenberg, J., Cohen, F., Gershuny, B., Routledge, C., & Pyszczynski, T. (2006). Fatal distraction: The impact of mortality salience on dissociative responses to 9/11 and subsequent anxiety sensitivity. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 28, 349-356. Kosloff, S. (2007). Experimental realism. Encyclopedia of social psychology. Sage Publications. Kosloff, S. (2007). Sociobiology. Encyclopedia of social psychology. Sage Publications. Martens, A., Kosloff, S., Greenberg, J., Landau, M.J., & Schmader, T. (2007). Killing begets killing: Evidence from a bug-killing paradigm that initial killing of similar targets escalates subsequent killing. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 33, 1251-1264. Greenberg, J., & Kosloff, S. (2008). Terror management theory: Implications for understanding prejudice, stereotyping, intergroup conflict, and political attitudes. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2, 1881-1894. Kosloff, S., Landau, M. J., Sullivan, D., & Greenberg, J. (2008). A terror management perspective on the quiet and the loud ego: Implications of ego volume control for personal and social well-being. In H. A. Wayment & J. Bauer (Eds.). Transcending selfinterest: Psychological explorations of the quiet ego (pp. 33-42). Washington, D.C.: APA Press. Weise, D., Pyszczynski, T. Cox, C., Arndt, J., Greenberg, J., Solomon, S., & Kosloff, S. (2008) Interpersonal politics: The role of terror management and attachment processes in shaping political preferences. Psychological Science, 19, 448-455.
Greenberg, J., Landau, M. J., Kosloff, S., & Solomon, S. (2009). How our dreams of death transcendence breed prejudice, stereotyping, and conflict. In T. Nelson (Ed.), The handbook of prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination (pp. 309-332). New York: Psychology Press. Koenig, A. M., Cesario, J., Molden, D. C., Kosloff, S., Higgins, E. T. (2009). Incidental Experiences of Regulatory Fit and the Processing of Persuasive Appeals. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 1342-1355. Kosloff, S. & Greenberg, J. (2009). Pearls in the desert: Death reminders provoke immediate derogation of extrinsic goals, but delayed inflation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 197-203. Kosloff, S., Greenberg, J., Weise, D., & Solomon, S. (2009). Mortality salience and political preferences: The roles of charisma and political orientation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 139-145. Kosloff, S., Landau, M. J., Weise, D., & Greenberg, J. (2009). Eight years in the wake of 9/11: A terror management analysis of the psychological repercussions of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In M. J. Morgan (Ed.), The Impact of 9/11 on Psychology and Education (pp. 7-22). New York: Palgrave MacMillan. Martens, A., Schimel, J., Greenberg, J, & Kosloff, S. (2009). Disdain for anxious individuals as a function of mortality salience. European Journal of Social Psychology, DOI: 10.1002/ejsp. Greenberg, J., Kosloff, S., Solomon, S., Cohen, F., & Landau, M. J. (2010). Toward understanding the fame game: The effect of mortality salience on the appeal of fame. Self and Identity, 9, 1-18. Landau, M. J., & Greenberg, J., & Kosloff, S. (2010). Coping with life s one certainty: A terror management perspective on the existentially uncertain self. In R. M. Arkin, K. C. Oleson, & P. J. Carroll (Eds.), Handbook of The Uncertain Self (pp. 195-215). New York: Psychology Press. Kosloff, S., Greenberg, J., Schmader, T., Dechesne, M., & Weise, D. (2010). Smearing the Opposition: Implicit and Explicit Stigmatization of the 2008 U.S. Presidential Candidates and the Current U.S. President. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 139, 383-398. Kosloff, S., Greenberg, J., Sullivan, D., & Weise, D. (2010). Of trophies and pillars: Exploring the terror management functions of short-term and long-term relationship partners. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36, 1037-1051. Martens, A., Kosloff, S., & Jackson, L. E., (2010). Evidence that initial obedient killing fuels subsequent volitional killing beyond effects of practice. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 1 268-273.
Landau, M. J., Kosloff, S., & Schmeichel, B. (in press). Perceiving one s actions as meaningful serves a terror management function. Self and Identity. MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION Arndt, J., Goldenberg, J., Landau, M. J., & Kosloff, S. (in prep). Conceptualizations of the body as a function of priming creatureliness. Kosloff, S., Greenberg, J., Allen, J. J. B., & Martens, A. (in prep). Neurobiological and autonomic evidence for vigilant withdrawal motivation after mortality salience. Kosloff, S., Greenberg, J., & Allen, J. J. B.. (in prep). Terror related negativity: Exploring the neurobiological foundations of mortality salience-induced self-esteem striving. Kosloff, S., Greenberg, J., & Solomon, S. (in prep). Fatal distraction II: Further exploring the role of death-related concerns in dissociative responses to cultural trauma. Weise, D., Pyszczynski, T., Greenberg, J., Rothschild, Z., Kosloff, S., Tongeren, D. C. (in prep). Politics, Religion, and Terror Management: Combined Effects of Mortality Salience and Religious Fundamentalism on Prioritization of Religiously-Motivated Political Issues. PRESENTATIONS Kosloff, S., Solomon, S., Greenberg, J., Cohen, F., Gershuny, B., Routledge, C., & Pyszczynski, T. (2006). Fatal Distraction vs. Fatal Attraction: All Defenses against Death Are Not Created Equal. Annual meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, Palm Springs, CA. Martens, A., Greenberg, J., Kosloff, S., Landau, M., & Schmader, T. (2006). Killing Begets Killing. Annual meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, Palm Springs, CA. Kosloff, S., Allen, J. B., & Greenberg, J. (2008). The Psychophysiology of Terror Management: Mortality Salience Decreases Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia. Annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Austin, TX. Kosloff, S. & Greenberg, J. (2008). Pearls in the Desert: Death Reminders Provoke Immediate Derogation of Extrinsic Goals, but Delayed Inflation. Annual meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM. Kosloff, S., Allen, J. B., Greenberg, J. & Martens, A. (2010). Neurobiological and Autonomic Evidence for Vigilant Withdrawal Motivation after Mortality Salience. Annual meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas, NV. Kosloff, S., Greenberg, J., Schmader, T., Dechesne, M., & Weise, D. (2010). Smearing the Opposition: Implicit and Explicit Stigmatization of the 2008 U.S. Presidential
Candidates and the Current U.S. President. Annual meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, Political Psychology Pre-Conference, Las Vegas, NV. TEACHING The University of Arizona Psyc 360: Social Psychology (Summer 2006, Summer 2005) Psyc 352 Personality (Summer 2008) Psyc 230: Psychological Measurement and Statistics (Summer 2009) Psyc 460: Advanced Social Psychology (Fall 2009) Multiple guest lectures from 2004-present, in such classes as Psychology of Death and Loss, Human Sexuality, Personality, Social Psychology, and Psychology of Terrorism. SERVICE Ad Hoc Reviewer: European Psychologist; Journal of Experimental Social Psychology; Journal of Social Psychology; Journal of Applied Social Psychology; Motivation and Emotion; Political Psychology; European Journal of Social Psychology; Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, and Practice; and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Departmental service (University of Arizona) Mass Survey Administration Committee (2004-2010) Served on a guest advisory panel in Psyc 396C, Preparing for Graduate School in the Fields of Psychology (2008)