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Handbook of Personal Security

Edited By Patrick J. Carroll, Robert M. Arkin, Aaron L. Wichman Copyright 2015
    398 Pages
    by Psychology Press

    398 Pages
    by Psychology Press

    398 Pages
    by Psychology Press
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    The issue of psychological security within an increasingly unstable, interconnected world has become a defining challenge of modern individual and cultural life. The terror attacks of September 11, 2001 and the global financial crisis that unfolded in 2008 have intensified a sense of global and personal insecurity. This concern with psychological insecurity is reflected in contemporary culture, politics, the business world, consumer behavior, the arts, and other areas.

    Within this context, the psychological sciences have kept pace, vigorously investigating these issues. This handbook features the latest theory and research examining cognitive, emotional, and behavioral responses to security threats. It expands the conceptual focus from specific security threats to the broader range of antecedents, processes, and consequences of psychological security/insecurity.

    The chapters are organized into four content areas: personal security in individual contexts, personal security in interpersonal contexts, personal security with cultural and health contexts, and interdisciplinary analyses of personal security. They represent a new and vibrant area of research unified by the common goal of understanding the factors that shape a sense of personal security. Together, these provocative chapters provide specific starting points that will shape future theory, policy, and practice on this dominant social issue of the 21st Century and, more importantly, offer opportunities to connect social and personality psychology to its scientific kin.

    DETAILED TABLE OF CONTENTS

    Preface: Editors

    INTRODUCTION

    • Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview

    Editors

    PART I. PERSONAL SECURITY IN INDIVIDUAL CONTEXTS

    • Chapter 02: Security and Uncertainty in Contemporary Delayed-Return Cultures: Coping with the Blockage of Personal Goals

    Kees van den Bos, Ian McGregor, & Leonard Martin

    • Chapter 03: Being Threatened and Being a Threat Can Increase Reliance On Thoughts: A Self-Validation Approach

    Pablo Briñol, Kenneth G. DeMarree, & Richard E. Petty

    • Chapter 04: Psychological Insecurity and Leadership Styles.

    Christiane Schoel, Dagmar Stahlberg, and Constantine Sedikides

    • Chapter 05: The psychology of defensiveness: An integrative security system model of attachment, self-esteem, and worldviews.

    Joshua Hart

    • Chapter 06: Part I Commentary.

    Colin Holbrook & Dan Fessler

    PART II: PERSONAL SECURITY IN INTERPERSONAL CONTEXTS

    • Chapter 07: Narcissism and Protection Against Social Threat.

    Stephanie D. Freis, Ashley A. Brown, & Robert M. Arkin

    • Chapter 08: Regulating Relationship Security of Chronically Insecure Partners

    Edward Lemay

    • Chapter 09: An Attachment Perspective on Personal Security

    Mario Milkulincer & Phillip R. Shaver

    • Chapter 10: Attachment Security and Prosociality: Dynamics, Underlying Mechanisms, and Implications

    Omri Gillath & Gery Karantzas

    • Chapter 11: A Goal Circumplex Model of Security Strivings in Social and Cultural Context.

    Kornel Tomczyk, Boya Yu, and Xinyue Zhou

    • Chapter 12: Ostracism Threatens Personal Security: A Temporal Need Threat Framework.

    Eric D. Wesselmann, Andrew Hales, Dongning Ren, & Kipling D. Williams

    • Chapter 13: Part II Commentary

    Margaret Clark, Katherine Von Culin, & Jennifer Hirsch

    PART III: PERSONAL SECURITY IN CULTURAL AND HEALTH CONTEXTS.

    • Chapter 14: Security Seeking in a Regulatory Focus Whodunit: The Case of the Relative Orientation in Behavioral Economics

    Geoffrey Leonardelli, Vanessa Bohns, and Jun Gu

    • Chapter 15: Achieving Existential Security through Symbolically Fusing Secular and Religious Sources of Control and Order.

    Aaron Kay, Steven Shepherd, and Richard Eibach

    • Chapter 16: Responding to Psychological Threats with Deliberate Ignorance: Causes and Remedies

    James Shepperd & Jenny Howell

    • Chapter 17: Uncertainty in Healthcare: A Multi-Level Approach

    Sara Andrews & Kate Sweeny

    • Chapter 18: Part III Commentary

    Alexendar J. Rothman, Allison K. Farrell, and Lisa Auster-Gussman

    PART IV: INTERDISCIPLINARY ANALYSES OF PERSONAL SECURITY:

    • Chapter 19: "Fear Appeals" and Security in American Foreign Relations

    Christopher Fettweis

    • Chapter 20: Terrorism, Personal Security, and Responsible Policy Making

    John Mueller and Mark G. Stewart

    • Chapter 21: Secure in their beliefs: Personal security, the quest for personal significance, and the psychology of extremism

    Arie Kruglanski & Noa Schori-Eyal

    • Chapter 22: The Ecology and Evolution of Personal Security: Adaptive Interdependence of the Individual and the Collective

    Raphael Sagarin

    • Chapter 23: Part IV Commentary

    Thomas Kolditz & John Lovelace

    Biography

    Patrick J. Carroll is currently an Associate Professor of Psychology at The Ohio State University-Lima. After receiving his PhD from the University of Florida, he was a National Institute of Mental Health Postdoctoral Fellow at The Ohio State University. His research focuses on the social revision of identity and the ultimate consequences of those identity revisions for mental health and well-being. In addition to his published articles, Carroll co-edited the 2010 Handbook of the Uncertain Self. He has also served as an editorial consultant for several journals as well as co-associate editor for a 2006 special issue of Basic and Applied Social Psychology on Security in the aftermath of 9/11.

    Robert M. Arkin is a Professor of Psychology at The Ohio State University. He earned his Ph.D. from the　University of Southern California. His research concerns the self in social interaction, with special emphasis on the uncertain self (self-doubt; self-handicapping and overachievement; personal security and insecurity). He is also editor of the 2011 book Most Underappreciated: 50 Prominent Social Psychologists Describe Their Most Unloved Work, and Handbook of the Uncertain Self. In addition to his many articles, Arkin has served in an editing role for several important journals in his discipline, including the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and Basic and Applied Social Psychology.

    Aaron L. Wichman is an Associate Professor of Psychological Sciences at Western Kentucky University. He earned his Ph.D and did post-doctoral work at the Ohio State University. His publications span a variety of topics, ranging from responses to psychological threat, uncertainty, and optimism and pessimism, to statistics. His research focuses on how people respond to different types of psychological threats and the many applications of the threat response/coping process.

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