Learning as a shield against death: a 10-day daily diary study examining mortality salience and academic engagement among college students [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyAcademic engagement is a critical determinant of success and wellbeing for college students. While previous research has identified the influence of stable environmental and individual factors, it has largely overlooked the impact of dynamic, daily ...
Yaqin Yan, Qing Xie, Ji Lai
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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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The Impact of Mortality Salience on Purchase Intention and Creativity Evaluation on Products During COVID-19 Pandemic [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 In the environment of COVID-19, people are faced with mortality salience (MS) and socioeconomic crisis. According to the terror management theory, the MS would lead to particular consumption attitudes and behaviors caused by the self-esteem and cultural ...
Chong Zu +6 more
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Mortality salience effects and status consumption-A reasoned action approach. [PDF]
PLoS ONEPrior research suggests that mortality salience (MS) can promote status consumption, yet it remains unclear how these effects are formed. To address this gap, we applied the Reasoned Action Approach, which provides a systematic framework to examine how ...
Jolien Arendsen +2 more
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The Impact of Mortality Salience on Intergenerational Altruism and the Perceived Importance of Sustainable Development Goals [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), consisting of 17 specific goals such as ending poverty, reducing inequality, and combating climate change, were proposed by the UN member states in 2014 for the ongoing UN agenda until 2030.
Saiquan Hu +3 more
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Benevolent Creativity Buffers Anxiety Aroused by Mortality Salience: Terror Management in COVID-19 Pandemic [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 With the outbreak of the COVID-19 crisis, the public keeps getting epidemic-related information on the media. News reports on the increasing number of fatalities have exposed individuals to death, which causes negative emotional experiences such as ...
Yu-Xin Cui +7 more
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Mortality Salience, System Justification, and Candidate Evaluations in the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Experiments conducted during the 2004 and 2008 U.S. presidential elections suggested that mortality salience primes increased support for President George W. Bush and Senator John McCain, respectively.
Joanna Sterling +2 more
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The effect of mortality salience and type of life on personality evaluation [PDF]
Europe’s Journal of Psychology, 2017 Mortality salience, or awareness of the inevitability of one’s own death, generates a state of anxiety that triggers a defense mechanism for the control of thinking that affects different human activities and psychological processes. This study aims to analyze the effect of mortality salience on the formation of impressions.
Fernando Gordillo +4 more
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The impact of mortality salience on quantified self behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic [PDF]
Personality and Individual Differences, 2021 Xingyang Lv
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Do Salient Social Norms Moderate Mortality Salience Effects? A (Challenging) Meta-Analysis of Terror Management Studies [PDF]
Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2023 Simon Schindler +2 more
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