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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, Shelia M, Kennison, Amanda L, Burke, John M, Chaney   +3 more
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Mortality Salience Replication Manuscript

2021
Materials and data from TMT replication ...
Treger, Stan, Benau, Erik
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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
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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
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Culturally Divergent Responses to Mortality Salience

Psychological Science, 2011
Two experiments compared the effects of death thoughts, or mortality salience, on European and Asian Americans. Research on terror management theory has demonstrated that in Western cultural groups, individuals typically employ self-protective strategies in the face of death-related thoughts. Given fundamental East-West differences in self-construal (i.
Christine, Ma-Kellams, Jim, Blascovich
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Literature as Mortality Salience?

2015
The term ‘empathy’ is associated with positive values in western cultures: it is generally thought good if people feel empathetic, and children are standardly brought up to take feelings of other people into consideration. But what if empathy is distressful?
Chesnokova, Anna, Springer, Matthias, van Peer, Willie   +2 more
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Oxytocin intensifies the mortality salience effect: Novel evidence for the social salience model of oxytocin

Hormones and Behavior, 2021
Oxytocin plays an important role in human responses to threat processing. Few studies have directly examined the effects of oxytocin on our response to death-related stimuli. In the current study, 63 participants intranasally received either 32 IU of oxytocin or a placebo and thereafter completed a visual dot-probe task consisting of death-related and ...
Jun, Chen, Yu L L, Luo, Yiping, Xie, Ziyan, Yang, Huajian, Cai   +4 more
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Mortality salience and the uncanny valley

5th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2005., 2006
It seems natural to assume that the more closely robots come to resemble people, the more likely they are to elicit the kinds of responses people direct toward each other. However, subtle flaws in appearance and movement only seem eerie in very human-like robots.
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Mortality salience and the desire for offspring

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2007
Abstract Research on terror management theory (TMT) illustrates that following mortality salience (MS) people defend their cultural worldviews and bolster self-esteem to transcend death. Recently, research additionally showed that MS increased self-reports of the number of children desired in Dutch men but not in Dutch women.
Immo Fritsche, null Eva Jonas, Peter Fischer, Nicolas Koranyi, Nicole Berger, Beatrice Fleischmann   +5 more
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Mortality Salience Increases Personal Relevance of the Norm of Reciprocity

Psychological Reports, 2012
Research on terror management theory found evidence that people under mortality salience strive to live up to salient cultural norms and values, like egalitarianism, pacifism, or helpfulness. A basic, strongly internalized norm in most human societies is the norm of reciprocity: people should support those who supported them (i.e., positive reciprocity)
Schindler, Simon, Reinhard, Marc-André, Stahlberg, Dagmar   +2 more
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