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A Function of Form: Terror Management and Structuring the Social World.

Landau, Mark J., Johns, Michael, Greenberg, Jeff, Pyszczynski, Tom, Martens, Andy, Goldenberg, Jamie L., Solomon, Sheldon·2004·Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Drawing on lay epistemology theory, the authors assessed a terror management analysis of the psychological function of structuring social information. Seven studies tested variations of the hypothesis that simple, benign interpretations of social information function, in part, to manage death-related anxiety. In Studies 1-4, mortality salience (MS) exaggerated primacy effects and reliance on representative information, decreased preference for a behaviorally inconsistent target among those high in personal need for structure (PNS), and increased high-PNS participants' preference for interpersonal balance. In Studies 5-7, MS increased high-PNS participants' preference for interpretations that suggest a just world and a benevolent causal order of events in the social world.

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Authors: Landau, M. J., Johns, M., Greenberg, J., Pyszczynski, T., Martens, A., Goldenberg, J. L., & Solomon, S.
Affiliations: University of Arizona (US)
University of Colorado Colorado Springs (US)
University of California, Davis (US)
Skidmore College (US)
ORCID: Landau, Mark J.
Johns, Michael
Greenberg, Jeff
Pyszczynski, Tom
Goldenberg, Jamie L.
Solomon, Sheldon
Venue: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Published: 2004
Volume: 87
Issue: 2
Pages: 190-210
ISSN: 0022-3514 (ISSN-L)
1939-1315
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.87.2.190
OpenAlex: W2029862076
Cited by: 275
References: 126
Citations by year: 2026: 2 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 11 · 2019: 14 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 13 · 2016: 12 · 2015: 21 · 2014: 11 · 2013: 16 · 2012: 24
FWCI: 17.11
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Locations: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Digital Commons - University of South Florida (University of South Florida) (submittedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
Social Sciences › Anthropology › Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning
Keywords: terror management theory, fear of death, mortality salience, need for structure, social information processing, primacy effect, belief in a just world, causal order
MeSH terms: Adult, Affect, Cognition, Fear, Female, Humans, Male, Motivation, Personality Inventory, Surveys and Questionnaires, Social Behavior

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