Dr. Abdollahy Zarandi, Abdolhossein
Dr. Abdollahy Zarandi is mostly engaged in instructional and administrative activities including teaching several psychological courses such as “Health Psychology”, “Learning and Memory”, “Judgement and Decision Making, “Cross-Cultural Psychology”, and “Introduction to Psychology.” However, in terms of research, the larger part of Dr. Abdollahy Zarandi’s published research history includes an illustration of the small-scale and larger-scale scientific investigation of the following topics:
1. The false memory effect: how we misremember our past
2. The application of “terror management theory (TMT)” in some research domains such as an examination of the role of existential factors and processes in the development of “posttraumatic stress disorder” or PTSD
Sample Publications:
Abdollahi, A., Pyszczynski, T., Maxfield, M., & Luszczynska, A. (2011). Posttraumatic stress reactions as a disruption in anxiety-buffer functioning: Dissociation and responses to mortality salience as predictors of severity of posttraumatic symptoms. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 3(4), 329-341.
Abdollahi, A., Henthorn, C., & Pyszczynski, T. (2009). Experimental peace psychology: Priming consensus mitigates aggression against outgroups under mortality salience. Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, 2(1), 30-37.
Abdollahi, A. (2013). Political psychology of the death terror. In S. J. Sinclair & A. Antonius (Eds.), The political psychology of terrorism fears (pp. 213-226). Oxford University Press.
Pyszczynski, T., Abdollahi, A., Solomon, S., Greenberg, J., Cohen, F., & Weise, D. (2006). Mortality salience, martyrdom, and military might: The Great Satan versus the Axis of Evil. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 525-537.
Cox, C. R., Arndt, J., Pyszczynski, T., Greenberg, J., Abdollahi, A., & Solomon, S. (2008). Terror management and adults' attachment to their parents: The safe haven remains. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94(4), 696-717.
Contact Information
Email: aabdollahyzarandi@utep.edu
Phone: (915) 747-6589
Prospect Hall, Room 208
Personal Information
Allameh Tabatabaei University, Tehran, Iran 2002
Courses
PSYC 4321 (Judgment and Decision Making)
PSYC 3350 (Health Psychology)
PSYC 3331 (Cross-Cultural Psychology)
PSYC 3320 (Learning and Memory
