Evidence for terror management theory II: The effects of mortality salience on reactions to those who threaten or bolster the cultural worldview.

Greenberg, Jeff; Pyszczynski, Tom; Solomon, Sheldon; Rosenblatt, Abram; N. Veeder, Mitchell; Kirkland, Shari; Lyon, Deborah

doi:10.1037/0022-3514.58.2.308

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Evidence for terror management theory II: The effects of mortality salience on reactions to those who threaten or bolster the cultural worldview.

Published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology • Feb 1, 1990

Authors:

Jeff Greenberg

Tom Pyszczynski

Sheldon Solomon

Abstract

Three experiments were conducted to test the hypothesis, derived from terror management theory, that reminding people of their mortality increases attraction to those who consensually validate their beliefs and decreases attraction to those who threaten their beliefs. In Study 1, subjects with a Chr...

Subject

Mortality salience

Terror management theory

Psychology

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