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A Function of Form: Terror Management and Structuring the Social World.
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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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“After MS, participants low in PNS tended to be more open-minded regarding violations of the just-world assumption ([111], Study 5), preferred a more flexible self-concept ([112], Study 1), and became more interested in exploring novel social, intellectual, and environmental stimuli [113].”
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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
- Venue
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- Published
- 2004
- Volume
- 87
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 190-210
- ISSN
- 0022-3514 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1315
- 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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