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Why Does Individualism Affect Economic Development: Is It Values, Policies, or Institutions?

open access: yesSouthern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A substantial body of literature highlights the positive roles of individualism and economic freedom in fostering prosperity, and recent work links the two. This paper disentangles their contributions to economic development. In cross‐country data, we show that both are independently associated with per capita income, even after extensive ...
Lewis S. Davis   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Effect of Mortality Salience on the Evaluation of Humorous Material

Journal of Social Psychology, 2011
The motivational aspects of humor are considered from the perspective of terror management theory, testing the hypothesis that exposure to the mortality salience manipulation will result in an alteration in participants' appreciation of humorous material. Participants rated several comic strips, indicating how funny they found the jokes.
exaly   +3 more sources

A Distant Ally?: Mortality Salience and Parasocial Attachment

OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying, 2022
Research in Terror Management Theory finds that close interpersonal relationships (e.g., parents, romantic partners) mitigate threat reactions to reminders of mortality. Parasocial relationships (imagined relationships with media personalities) afford many of the same benefits as interpersonal relationships.
Lucas A. Keefer   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Mortality Salience Replication Manuscript

2021
Materials and data from TMT replication ...
Treger, Stan, Benau, Erik
openaire   +1 more source

Mortality Salience in the Workplace

2020
Deaths in the workplace are stressful occurrences that can negatively impact the organization and its members. Therefore, the purpose of this chapter is to explain how employees’ encounters with death can influence their attitude, thoughts, and behavior through mortality salience.
Alexandra Jacobsen, Terry A. Beehr
openaire   +1 more source

The Effect of Mortality Salience on Implicit Bias

Death Studies, 2012
Previous research in terror management theory has shown that when individuals are reminded of their mortality, negative evaluations of out-group members increase. This previous research has used a variety of methods to investigate the change in attitudes toward out-group members.
Kristopher I, Bradley   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

The effects of mortality salience on escalation of commitment

International Journal of Psychology, 2011
Based on propositions derived from terror management theory (TMT), the current study proposes that people who are reminded of their mortality exhibit a higher degree of self‐justification behavior to maintain their self‐esteem. For this reason, they could be expected to stick with their previous decisions and invest an increasing amount of resources in
Chih-Long, Yen, Chun-Yu, Lin
openaire   +2 more sources

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