Acts of Meaning: A Terror Management Perspective on Action Identification

Terror Management Perspective on Attitudes Toward Alzheimer's Disease

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e505772008-001 ◽

2008 ◽

Author(s):

Melissa L. Lunsman ◽

Susan H. McFadden

Keyword(s):

Alzheimer’S Disease ◽

Alzheimer's Disease ◽

Terror Management ◽

Management Perspective

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A terror management perspective on aging: Age differences in response to blatant and subtle reminders of mortality

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e511092014-191 ◽

2006 ◽

Author(s):

Molly Maxfield ◽

Tom Pyszczynski ◽

Jeff Greenberg ◽

Sheldon Solomon ◽

David Weise

Keyword(s):

Age Differences ◽

Terror Management ◽

Management Perspective

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It doesn't hurt to be a hero: A terror management perspective on heroism and pain endurance

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e512142015-039 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Simon McCabe ◽

Ryan William Carpenter ◽

Jamie Arndt

Keyword(s):

Terror Management ◽

Management Perspective

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Physical Warmth Attenuates Ethnocentric Bias under Mortality Salience: An Embodied Terror Management Perspective

10.31234/osf.io/x6m8u ◽

2020 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Armand Chatard ◽

Margaux Renoux ◽

Jean Monéger ◽

Leila Selimbegovic

Keyword(s):

Mortality Salience ◽

Terror Management ◽

Negative Consequences ◽

Defensive Reaction ◽

Worldview Defense ◽

Management Perspective ◽

Physical Warmth ◽

Alternative Means ◽

First Time

Research indicates that individuals often deal with mortality salience by affirming beliefs in national or cultural superiority (worldview defense). Because worldview defense may be associated with negative consequences (discrimination), it is important to identify alternative means to deal with death-related thoughts. In line with an embodied terror management perspective, we evaluate for the first time the role of physical warmth in reducing defensive reaction to mortality salience. We predicted that, like social affiliation (social warmth), physical warmth could reduce worldview defense when mortality is salient. In this exploratory (preregistered) study, 202 French participants were primed with death-related thoughts, or an aversive control topic, in a heated room or a non-heated room. The main outcome was worldview defense (ethnocentric bias). We found no main effect of mortality salience on worldview defense. However, physical warmth reduced worldview defense when mortality was salient. Implications for an embodied terror management perspective are discussed.

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