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Empathy, Social Dominance Orientation, Mortality Salience, and Perceptions of a Criminal Defendant
SAGE Open, 2016 In two studies, participants completed measures of trait empathy and social dominance orientation, read a summary of a hit and run trial, and provided reactions to the case.
Donna Crawley, Richard Suarez
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The Embodied Reader and Experiential Death
Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry, 2023 Narratives being the cornerstone of societal development will never go out of fashion. The act of reading will naturally be a part of highly developed cognitive beings. In this paper, the ideal reader is replaced by the embodied reader.
Sree Sakthi Prem, P.T. Selvi Kohila
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 A growing body of research aims to identify the factors that motivate people to make contributions in Wikipedia. We conducted two laboratory experiments to investigate the connections between topic characteristics, perception of threat, and willingness ...
Seren Yenikent +3 more
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Religions, 2019 In this article, I argue that “mindfulness of death” (maraṇasati) can be a tool to induce mortality salience and can have a positive psychological impact.
Hyun Gong Moon
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 According to terror management theory, humans rely on meaningful and permanence-promising cultural worldviews, like religion, to manage mortality concerns. Prior research indicates that, compared to religious individuals, atheists experience lower levels
Melissa Soenke +2 more
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Mortality Salience, Self-Esteem and Status Seeking [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013 According to the Terror Management Theory, the fear of death may induce anxiety and threaten individual self-esteem. To remove this fear, individuals need to obtain and sustain self-esteem, for example by competing in rank order tournaments, or by focusing on status seeking.
Giannetti, Caterina, Orsini, Raimondello
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Frontiers in Communication, 2022 The TEBOTS model predicts that narratives are sought after more often in times of depletion. The present study aimed at expanding this idea by testing whether engagement with narratives is also intensified under self-threatening conditions.
Diana Rieger, Frank M. Schneider
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Positive Emotional Language in the Final Words Spoken Directly Before Execution
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 How do individuals emotionally cope with the imminent real-world salience of mortality? DeWall and Baumeister as well as Kashdan and colleagues previously provided support that an increased use of positive emotion words serves as a way to protect and ...
Sarah eHirschmüller, Boris eEgloff
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The effect of mortality salience on weapon bias [PDF]
International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 2012 Abstract The research tested the hypothesis that those in life-threatening situations may accidentally fire upon an individual whose ethnicity differs from their own, because mortality salience (MS) increases negative bias toward outgroup members ( Greenberg, Pyszczynski, & Solomon, 1986 ).
Kristopher I. Bradley +1 more
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Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Loss of the miR‐214/199a cluster is associated with recurrence in ovarian cancer. Engineered small extracellular vesicles (m214‐sEVs) elevate miR‐214‐3p/miR‐199a‐5p in tumor cells, suppress β‐catenin, TLR4, and YKT6 signaling, reprogram tumor‐derived sEV cargo, reduce chemoresistance and migration, and enhance carboplatin efficacy and survival in ...
Weida Wang +12 more
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