Handbook of Personal Security

DETAILED TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface: Editors

• Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview

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

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

• Chapter 04: Psychological Insecurity and Leadership Styles.

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

• Chapter 06: Part I Commentary.

• Chapter 07: Narcissism and Protection Against Social Threat.

• Chapter 08: Regulating Relationship Security of Chronically Insecure Partners

• Chapter 09: An Attachment Perspective on Personal Security

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

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

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

• Chapter 13: Part II Commentary

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

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

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

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

• Chapter 18: Part III Commentary

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

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

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

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

• Chapter 23: Part IV Commentary

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.