Increasing Faculty Self-Efficacy in Mentoring through Training in Inclusive Mentoring and Course-based Undergraduate Research.

Encouraging diversity in biomedical fields is especially important and begins at the undergraduate level. Culturally competent mentorship and high impact practices, like involvement in research, play important roles in fostering success among undergraduates from historically underrepresented groups. The current study followed 20 biomedical faculty as they completed two semester-long trainings, one in mentoring and one in course based undergraduate research (CUREs) as part of the NIH Diversity Program Consortium Dissemination and Translation Awards initiative.

Investigating the Role of Normative Support in Atheists' Perceptions of Meaning Following Reminders of Death.

According to terror management theory, humans rely on meaningful and permanence-promising cultural worldviews, like religion, to manage mortality concerns. Prior research indicates that, compared to religious individuals, atheists experience lower levels of meaning in life following reminders of death. The present study investigated whether reminders of death would change atheists' meaning in life after exposure to normative support for atheism.

Natural, But Not Supernatural, Literal Immortality Affirmation Attenuates Mortality Salience Effects on Worldview Defense in Atheists.

The present research explored whether atheists managing death awareness would be effectively buffered by affirmations of supernatural and/or natural literal immortality. Prior data were reanalyzed, revealing ambiguous results, so further experiments were conducted. In Study 1 ( = 382), atheists were randomly assigned to a supernatural afterlife-confirmed (vs.

Broadening the definition of resilience and "reappraising" the use of appetitive motivation.

Kalisch et al.'s PASTOR model synthesizes current knowledge of resilience, focusing on mechanisms as a common pathway to outcomes and highlighting neuroscience as a method for exploring this. We propose the model broaden its definition of resiliency to include positive indices of recovery, include positive affect as a mechanism, and approach motivation as distinct from overcoming aversive motivation.

It's the End of the World and I Feel Fine: Soul Belief and Perceptions of End-of-the-World Scenarios.

Five studies tested the effects that soul beliefs have on reactions to end-of-the-world scenarios. In Studies 1 and 2, participants who firmly believe in an immortal soul showed less resistance to an article predicting the end of humanity than those without such belief. However, in Studies 3 to 5, thoughts of symbolic immortality made soul believers more resistant to scientific evidence predicting the end of humanity.

Increases in generative concern among older adults following reminders of mortality.

According to terror management theory, people are motivated to protect themselves from the potential for anxiety resulting from awareness of mortality. It was hypothesized that increased concern for future generations, and the symbolic immortality this produces, may be particularly important to older adults when awareness of their mortality is increased. In two studies, older and younger adults' generative concern was examined following mortality or control primes.

Increases in generative concern among older adults following reminders of mortality.

According to terror management theory, people are motivated to protect themselves from the potential for anxiety resulting from awareness of mortality. It was hypothesized that increased concern for future generations, and the symbolic immortality this produces, may be particularly important to older adults when awareness of their mortality is increased. In two studies, older and younger adults' generative concern was examined following mortality or control primes.

Remembering the initial realization of one's own mortality.

Research shows many effects of reminding people of their mortality; however, little is known about whether people recall the moment they first realized they will die, or what factors are associated with whether they do. Data from 1,552 undergraduates and a community sample of 149 adults found that about one third of participants reported remembering the moment. Individuals who recall the moment have slightly lower self-esteem, are more likely to believe in a soul, and are more prone to dissociation than those who do not.