Joseph Hayes, Associate Professor
Email address: joseph.hayes@acadiau.ca
Telephone: (902) 585-1418
Office location: Horton Hall 304
Lab location: Horton Hall 409/418/420
Classes recently taught: Personality, Research Design & Statistics 1 (graduate level), Advanced Research Methods, Advanced Seminar in Tests and Measurements
EDUCATION
B.A. (Honours), Saint Francis Xavier University
M.A., University of Alberta
Ph.D., University of Alberta
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Dr. Hayes is a social-personality researcher, who examines how people respond to threat. His research program takes a three-pronged approach to understanding this topic:
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
Hayes, J. & Schimel, J. (2018). Unintended effects of measuring implicit processes: The case of death-thought accessibility in mortality salience studies. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 74, 257-269.
Hayes, J. & Hubley, C. (2017). Between a rock and a hard place: When affirming life reduces depression, but increases anxiety. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 36, 860-882.
Hayes, J. (2016). Praising the dead: On the motivational tendency and psychological function of eulogizing the deceased. Motivation and Emotion, 40, 375-388.
Hayes, J., Ward, C., & McGregor, I. (2016). Why bother? Death, failure, and fatalistic withdrawal from life. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 110, 96-115.
Hayes, J., Schimel, J., Williams, T. J., Howard, A. L., Webber, D., & Faucher, E. H. (2015). Worldview accommodation: Selectively modifying committed beliefs provides defense against threat. Self and Identity, 14, 521-548.
Hayes, J., Schimel, J., Arndt, J., & Faucher, E. H. (2010). A theoretical and empirical review of the death-thought accessibility concept in terror management research. Psychological Bulletin, 136, 699-739.
Hayes, J., Schimel, J., & Williams, T. J. (2008). Fighting death with death: The buffering effects of learning that worldview violators have died. Psychological Science, 19, 501-507.
RECENTLY SUPERVISED STUDENTS
Honours Students
Rafferty, Marcus (2019). Addictive Worldviews: A terror management perspective on cannabis culture.
Hubley, Candice (2018). You live and you learn: When fostering a learning perspective reduces depression.
Damecour, Eric (2018). Incivility, burnout, and depression: The protective effects of reactive approach motivation.
Quayle, Taylor (2018). We’re all going to die anyway: Uncovering motives for suicide ideation using a goal regulation perspective on living.
Harvey, Mary (2017). Worldview rejection: Exploring conditions under which people will reject their worldview.
Graduate Students
Newcombe, Breagh (2018). Mindfulness in the face of death.