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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Examining the effect of mortality salience on preference for anthropomorphic products [PDF]
Current Psychology, 2023 Research has shown that anthropomorphic products can compensate for the lack of belongingness and control. These findings suggest that anthropomorphic products may also protect against mortality salience, which has been shown in numerous research studies to be closely related to both belongingness and control motives.
Fatih Sönmez, Sima Nart
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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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Believing in Karma: The Effect of Mortality Salience on Excessive Consumption [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 This research proposes that mortality salience leads individuals to engage in differentiation of excessive consumption based on their appraisal of the karmic system.
Siyun Chen +3 more
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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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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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Contemplative Practice and Responses to Mortality Salience: Evidence from Long-Term Sufi Meditators [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesMortality salience research has played a central role in understanding responses to death awareness and existential threat. At the same time, relatively little research has examined whether long-term contemplative practice may shape affective, cognitive,
Elisa Puvia +4 more
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