Effects of Mortality Salience on Physiological Arousal [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Making the inevitability of mortality salient makes people more defensive about their self-esteem and worldviews. Theoretical arguments and empirical evidence point to a mediating role of arousal in this defensive process, but evidence from physiological
Johannes Klackl, Eva Jonas
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Emotional responses to mortality salience: Behavioral and ERPs evidence. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 Terror Management Theory (TMT) suggests that death-related thoughts activate proximal defense which allows people to suppress or rationalize death awareness.
Shiyun Huang, Hongfei Du, Chen Qu
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Coping with mortality salience: the role of connection thinking and afterlife beliefs in Chinese context [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 IntroductionGrounded in Terror Management Theory (TMT), this research explored the influence of mortality salience on preferences for afterlife beliefs (reincarnation vs. resignation to fate) within a Chinese context.
Kun Wang +3 more
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Mortality Salience and Metabolism: Glucose Drinks Reduce Worldview Defense Caused by Mortality Salience [PDF]
Psychology, 2012 The current work tested the hypothesis that a glucose drink would reduce worldview defense following mortality salience. Participants consumed either a glucose drink or placebo, wrote about either death or dental pain, and then completed a measure of ...
Gailliot, Matthew T.
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Subliminal mortality salience does not increase physical strength output in double-blind randomized controlled trial [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 IntroductionUsing the morality salience paradigm, this research tested whether subliminal death stimuli lead to increased physical strength. Moreover, it was investigated if mindfulness and self-esteem instability influence terror management.MethodsIn ...
Christopher T. J. Bartenschlager +1 more
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Mortality salience and helping intentions: mediating role of search for meaning and moderating role of negotiable fate [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychiatryIntroductionThis study explores the “altruism born of suffering” hypothesis, which suggests that adversity motivates individuals to help others, potentially mediated by their search for meaning.
Baorui Chang +3 more
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Self-Control Buffers the Mortality Salience Effect on Fairness-Related Decision-Making [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesFairness-related decision-making often involves a conflict between egoistic and prosocial motives. Previous research based on Terror Management Theory (TMT) indicates that mortality salience can promote both selfish and prosocial behaviors, leaving its ...
Wen Li, Lili Guan
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Mortality salience and helping behavior amidst public crisis: cross-sectional evidence during COVID-19 [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthBackgroundAs a real mortality salience, a public crisis would have a major impact on individual minds, behaviors, and lifestyles. COVID-19 provides us with a stark real-world example to understand these implications.
Qing Xie, Yaqin Yan, Ji Lai, Meiting Wei
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Mortality Salience, Self-esteem and Status Seeking [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013 According to the Terror Management Theory, the fear of death may induce anxiety and threaten individual self-esteem. To remove this fear, individuals need to obtain and sustain self-esteem, for example by competing in rank order tournaments, or by ...
Giannetti, Caterina, Orsini, Raimondello
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Modelling associations between mortality salience, environmental concerns, and climate change risk perception in the context of the pandemic [PDF]
HeliyonThe pandemic and climate change are mortality salience triggers. Environmental issues, attitudes, and climate change risk perceptions were hypothesised to impact how individuals perceived the threat of COVID-19 and climate change during the pandemic. The
Andrea Marais-Potgieter +2 more
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