Zachary Rothschild

Affiliation: Psychology

Associate Professor of Psychology, on leave for the fall 2024 semester

My research interests focus on the psychological defenses people employ to maintain a meaningful and controllable conception of reality and a positive moral identity when faced with circumstances that threaten to undermine these perceptions. I am particularly interested in the destructive consequences these defensive processes have on interpersonal and intergroup relationships. For example, one recent line of research examines how people engage in scapegoating to protect their perceived personal control or moral identity when confronted with large-scale negative events (e.g., climate change, economic turmoil). In a related line of research, I am exploring how feelings of guilt over personal/collective harm-doing can drive defensive expressions of moral outrage at other perceived harm-doers in the name of justice.

Rothschild, Z. K. & Keefer, L. A. (2023) , Journal of Research in Personality, 105, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2023.104400

Rothschild, Z. K., & Keefer, L. A. (2022) European Journal or Social Psychology. 52, 124-146.

Rothschild, Z. K., Keefer, L. A., & Hauri, J. (2021). . Political Psychology, 42, 3-21.

Keefer, L. A. & Rothschild, Z. K. (2020). . Journal of Individual Differences. 1-16.

Rothschild, Z. K., Hauri, J., & Keefer, L. A. (2020). . Journal of Clinical and Social Psychology, 39, 383-418.

Rothschild, Z. K., & Keefer, L. A. (2018). European Journal of Social Psychology. DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.2349

Rothschild, Z. K. & Keefer, L. A. (2017). . DOI: 10.1007/s11031-017-9601-2

Rothschild, Z. K., Landau, M. J., Keefer, L. A., & Sullivan, D. (2015). . Motivation and Emotion, 39, 722-741.

Sullivan, D., Landau, M. J., Rothschild, Z. K., Keefer, L. A. (2014). Invited Chapter in J. van Prooijen & P. A. M. van Lang (Eds.), Power, Politics and Paranoia. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Press.

Rothschild, Z. K., Landau, M. J., Molina, L. K, Branscombe, N., & Sullivan, D. (2013). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49, 898-906.

Rothschild, Z. K., Landau, M. J., Sullivan, D., & Keefer, L. A. (2012). , 102, 1148-1163.

Landau, M. J., Sullivan, D., Keefer, L. A., & Rothschild, Z. K. (2012). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 1234-1246.

Keefer, L. A., Landau, M. J., Rothschild, Z. K., & Sullivan, D. (2012). . Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 912-917.

Landau, M. J., Sullivan, D., Rothschild, Z. K., & Keefer, L. A. (2012). In P. R. Shaver & M. Mikulincer (Eds.), Meaning, mortality, and choice: The social psychology of existential concerns. (pp. 183-202). American Psychological Association.

Sullivan, D., Landau, M. J., Branscombe, N. B., & Rothschild, Z. K. (2012). . Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 102, 778-795. *Winner of the Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Award

Rothschild, Z. K., Landau, M. J., & Sullivan, D. (2011). Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37, 1508-1521.

Landau, M. J., Rothschild, Z. K., & Sullivan, D. (2011). . In M. A. Hogg & D. L. Blaylock (Eds.), Extremism and the psychology of uncertainty. (pp. 131-146). West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

Vail, K. E., Rothschild, Z. K., Weise, D. R., Solomon, S., Pyszczynski, T., & Greenberg, J. (2010). . Personality and Social Psychology Review, 14, 84-94.

Sullivan, D., Landau, M. J., & Rothschild, Z. K. (2010). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98, 434-439.

Rothschild, Z. K., Abdollahi, A., & Pyszczynski, T. (2009). . Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 816-827.

Pyszczynski, T., Rothschild, Z. K., & Abdollahi, A. (2008). . Current Directions in Psychological Science, 17, 318-322.

Education

PhD, University of Kansas
MA, University of Colorado Colorado Springs
BA, Knox College

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Zachary Rothschild

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