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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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Self-Regulation After Mortality Salience

European Psychologist, 2005
Abstract. This research investigates mortality salience (MS) and national pride in Germany, a country in which, for historical reasons, attitudes toward the nation are negatively valued. Within this cultural context, utilizing national pride as a coping strategy for dealing with MS may require well-developed self-regulatory abilities: It was ...
Miguel Kazén, Nicola Baumann, Julius Kuhl   +2 more
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Mortality Salience and Cultural Cringe

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 2014
Terror Management Theory predicts that mortality salience (MS) instigates cultural worldview defenses, especially among individuals with lower self-esteem. That MS intensifies positive evaluations of pro-U.S. essay authors, and negative evaluations of anti-U.S. essay authors have been documented as supportive evidence. However, the evidence to date may
Kashima, Emiko, Beatson, Ruth, Kaufmann, Leah Mary, Branchflower, Sarah, Marques, Mathew   +4 more
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Mortality Salience, Mood Regulation and Materialism

2015
Consumers surround themselves with material goods and experiences. Sometimes they consume out of necessity (i.e., to eat), other times to build relationships and experiences (i.e., attending a play), or to enhance their self-view (Belk 1988). Possessions can serve as security against fears and anxiety (Belk 1988).
Kevin Lehnert, Kelly Cowart
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Mortality Salience of Birthdays on Day of Death in the Major Leagues

Death Studies, 2009
The authors assessed the relationship of mortality salience, as represented by birthdays, on the day of death. Preliminary studies considered the role of possible artifacts such as seasonality of birth and death, and time units for evaluation. On the basis of terror management theory's concept of "mortality salience," the authors hypothesized that ...
Ernest L, Abel, Michael L, Kruger
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