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Target article authors March, Gaertner, and Olson (this issue) define threat as pertaining specifically to stimuli that can cause “immediate bodily harm”(p. 3). In social psychology, however, the application of the term “threat” is much broader and refers to the presence of any stimulus or predicament that might undermine either physical (ie, bodily harm) or psychological well-being (ie, self-esteem loss, relationship rejection or ostracism, loss of control, cognitive dissonance, etc.; see Jonas et al., 2014, for a recent review). In the decades of social psychological research on threat, the main criterion to determine whether a stimulus was threatening has been its capacity to elicit seemingly irrational defensive responses. That is, if a stimulus results in an irrational response that appears to provide some form of defense against a deficit or vulnerability highlighted by the stimulus, then the stimulus is considered to be an …