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A blast from the past: the terror management function of nostalgia [PDF]
, 2008 According to terror management theory, people turn to meaning-providing structures to cope with the knowledge of inevitable mortality. Recent theory and research suggest that nostalgia is a meaning-providing resource and thus may serve such an ...
Arndt, A. +3 more
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On salience-based theories of demonstratives
, 2022 In this paper, we examine a number of ways in which the notion of salience has been or might be used to fix the reference of demonstrative expressions.
Ethan Nowak +3 more
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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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Sign Evaluation and Compliance Under Mortality Salience
Interdisciplinary Journal of Signage and Wayfinding, 2020 This article examines sign communication effectiveness in the context of COVID-19 pandemic-related signs that promote behavioral changes. A program of four experiments assessed the influence of mortality salience on responses to signs promoting frequent
James J. Kellaris +2 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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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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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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Mortality Salience on Moral Transgression
, 2022 A pilot experiment to test mortality salience ...
Larry Kou
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