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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Mortality Salience"”.
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The Unconscious Influence of Mortality Salience on Younger and Older Adults
… methodology has also been extended to inducing mortality salience, such that specific behaviors emerge in response to thinking about one’s own death. Two theories, socioemotional selectivity theory and terror management theory, hypothesize how individuals cope with thoughts about the end of …
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A test of TMT: Mortality salience and avoidance of worldview threats
1 PDF file (vii, 91 pages)
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Does Health Anxiety Moderate the Effects of Mortality Salience On Worldview Defense?
… are chronically more aware of their own mortality. To test this hypothesis, the Illness _and Attitudes Scale (IAS) was administered to 65 undergraduates to determine level of health anxiety. Participants were then randomly assigned to a mortality salience or control condition. Level of …
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COVID-19’s Effects on Mortality Salience, Death Anxiety, and Worldview Defense
<p>Since late-2019, the world has been trying to overcome an invisible killer: COVID-19. With near constant reminders of the virus the knowledge that a tiny viral particle has potential to harm or even kill has become overwhelming for many. Terror Management Theory (TMT) suggests that when …
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Violent video games and aggressive behavior: mortality salience and the hostile attribution bias
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The effects of mortality salience on collective guilt, reparation and level of group cohesiveness
La dernière décennie a vu une augmentation de la recherche dirigée vers la compréhension des conséquences engendrées par les pensées de notre propre mortalité. La majeure partie de cette recherche constitue d’examiner l’hypothèse de la saillance de la mortalité dérivée de la théorie de gestion de …
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Fearing the Uncertain: A Causal Exploration of Self-Esteem, Self-Uncertainty, and Mortality Salience
… the relationship between, on the one hand, mortality salience, self-related uncertainty and self-esteem, and on the other group identification and ingroup defense. The general hypothesis derived from uncertainty-identity theory (Hogg, 2010) is that uncertainty and not fear of death or …
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The "War on Terror," Mortality Salience, and American Prejudice Before and After the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombings
… Theory (TMT) predicts that reminding people of mortality has predictable effects on their opinions and behavior. This study seeks to test empirically whether framing counterterrorism as a “War on Terror” acts as a mortality salience prime, and causes participants to be more likely to support …
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The Effects of Priming on Framing Bias: An Integrative Study Examining Mortality Salience, Self-Affirmation, and Emotional Intelligence
… The current study primed participants with mortality salience (MS) or self-affirmation (SA) and, then, evaluated the ability of 10 framed scenarios to alter choice behavior as well as the potential of EI to influence those effects. Three-hundred and sixty-nine participants (252 women, 96 …
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The effects of mortality-salience inducing direct-to-consumer prescription drug commercials on viewer attitude toward high and low status brands
… think about their own death (referred to as mortality salience) and what effects these thoughts had on people's opinions of brands of varying status. Study 1 used a free-writing questionnaire to collect brands. Study 2 used scales to rate participant attitude toward 12 DTC ads. Study 2 showed …
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Effects of a Brief Mindfulness Induction on Death-Related Anxiety
… some level by an underlying aversion to death. Mortality salience, the conscious awareness of one’s own impending death, creates behavioral changes in individuals compared to non-mortality salient individuals. These changes in behavior are referred to as distal and proximal defense mechanisms. …
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The Proverbial Ticking Biological Clock: A Symbolic TMT Perspective on Mate Perception
Past research has shown that mortality salience increases desire for offspring. Additionally, past studies have illustrated that women in a high fertility phase within a menstrual cycle show greater preference for masculine faces while performing facial judgment tasks than do women in a low …
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Nonvolitional Faking on a Personality Measure: Testing the Influence of Unconscious Processes
… Set) x 2 (Personality Feedback) x 2 (Mortality Salience) factorial design addressed social desirability biases in responding to personality measures. There were significant changes in all measures due to volitional (Fake Good) strategies. Thoughts of death lead to decreased distortion, …
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Semper Fi: How Images of Death in NCIS Affect Attitude Change
… post- test experiment examined the effects of mortality salience, frames of the military and military personnel, and regulatory focus on viewer attitudes toward the military, support for the military, and their perceptions of military personnel's criminal behavior. Participants viewed a short …
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Examining the Interactive Effects of Time Perspective and Life History on Decision-making Patterns among College Students: A Modified Replication of Griskevicius et al. (2011b)
… a feeling of heightened awareness of one’s own mortality, called mortality salience. Participants in this condition exhibited patterns of risk-taking and delay discounting on the outcome measures that were related to their childhood socioeconomic status (SES), one of the first demonstrations of …
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"Terrorism Is Theater": How Antagonist Portrayals in Action Films Affect Stereotyping and Impression Formation
… type (sympathetic or non-sympathetic), and mortality salience (treatment or control) on narrative transportation, attitude toward the antagonist, attitude toward the video, stereotype endorsement, and response time for attitude toward the antagonist. Gender differences were also …
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Perceptions of Death among Older Adults: Integrating Terror Management Theory and the Lifespan Development Framework
… beliefs can abate existential threats such as mortality salience. Most research on TMT has employed young samples, so influences on older adults' experiences of mortality salience are unclear. Simultaneously, research on death anxiety shows that older people may view their own death more …
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Priming the Data: Examining Self-Potentiation in a Word Fragment Completion Task
… The second study evaluated these outcomes under mortality salience induction, subtle mortality salience induction, and no induction, using restricted timing for stimulus presentation and response. Responses revealed evidence suggesting a potentiating effect. Analyses for effects between …
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Attraction Process Among Identified Sport Fans
… Theories such as the matching hypothesis and mortality salience dispute this idea. The matching hypothesis proposes selection occurs between individuals similar in attractiveness, not necessarily selecting the most attractive individual available. Mortality salience suggests attractiveness is …
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