Sheldon Solomon
{{short description|American social psychologist}}
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University of Kansas (Ph.D.)
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Sheldon Solomon is an American social psychologist. He is a professor of psychology at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. Solomon is best known for developing terror management theory, along with Jeff Greenberg and Tom Pyszczynski. This theory is concerned with how humans deal with their own sense of mortality.
{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j_KMRe9wK2MC&dq=%22Jeff+Greenberg%22+++%22terror+management+theory%22&pg=PA13| title=Handbook of Experimental Existential Psychology|publisher=The Guilford Press|date=2004|isbn=1-59385-040-9|first1=Sheldon|last1= Solomon|first2=Jeff|last2=Greenberg|first3=Tom|last3= Pyszczynski|accessdate=August 30, 2020}}{{cite news| url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/23/AR2007122301586.html| title=Reminders of Mortality Bring Out the Charitable Side
| page=A03| newspaper=Washington Post| first=Shankar| last=Vedantam| date=December 24, 2007| accessdate=January 18, 2008}}
Education and career
Solomon earned his B.A. from Franklin & Marshall College and his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas.
{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j_KMRe9wK2MC&dq=%22Jeff+Greenberg%22+++%22terror+management+theory%22&pg=PA13| title=Handbook of Experimental Existential Psychology|publisher=The Guilford Press|date=2004|isbn=1-59385-040-9|first1=Sheldon|last1= Solomon|first2=Jeff|last2=Greenberg|first3=Tom|last3= Pyszczynski|accessdate=August 30, 2020}}{{cite news| url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/23/AR2007122301586.html| title=Reminders of Mortality Bring Out the Charitable Side
| page=A03| newspaper=Washington Post| first=Shankar| last=Vedantam| date=December 24, 2007| accessdate=January 18, 2008}}
Currently the Ross Professor for Interdisciplinary Studies at Skidmore College, he is best known for developing terror management theory. Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, and Tom Pyszczynski co-authored the book The Worm at the Core: On the role of Death in Life in 2015.{{cite book|last1=Solomon|first1=Sheldon|last2=Greenberg|first2=Jeff|last3=Pyszczynski|first3=Tom|title=The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c6H3BwAAQBAJ|publisher=Penguin UK|date=2015|isbn=9780141981635|accessdate=August 30, 2010}}{{cite news|title=Where does the soul go? New course explores spiritual existence|url=http://www.westhartfordnews.com/articles/2015/10/14/news/doc561ecaa6934c1312697232.txt|work=West Hartford News|date=October 14, 2015}}
He is also the author and co-author of more than one hundred articles and several books, and he has been featured in several films, including Flight from Death and Planet of the Humans. In the latter, he links the pursuit of renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar, to the reluctance of humans to face their own mortality.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Michael Moore Presents: Planet of the Humans {{!}} Full Documentary {{!}} Directed by Jeff Gibbs|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk11vI-7czE|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=YouTube}}
Personal life
Solomon co-founded Esperanto, a restaurant in Saratoga Springs, and invented the "doughboy"—dough filled with cheese, chicken, and spices.{{cite web | url=https://dailygazette.com/article/2011/08/19/0819_doughboys | title=City eatery's visitors can't get enough of doughboys – the Daily Gazette | date=August 19, 2011 }}
References
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External links
- [https://www.skidmore.edu/psychology/faculty/solomon.php Sheldon Solomon] at the Department of Psychology, Skidmore College
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- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfKyNxfyWbo Sheldon Solomon: Death and Meaning | Lex Fridman Podcast #117]
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