The role of control motivation in mortality salience effects on ingroup support and defense

Fritsche, Immo; Jonas, Eva; Fankhänel, Thomas

doi:10.1037/a0012666

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The role of control motivation in mortality salience effects on ingroup support and defense

Fritsche, Immo, Jonas, Eva, Fankhänel, Thomas·2008·Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

DOI 10.1037/a0012666

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Terror management research has shown that mortality salience (MS) leads to increased support and defense of cultural ingroups and their norms (i.e., worldview defense, WD). The authors investigated whether these effects can be understood as efforts to restore a generalized sense of control by strengthening one's social ingroup. In Studies 1-3, the authors found that WD was only increased following pure death salience, compared with both dental pain salience and salience of self-determined death. As both the pure death and the self-determined death conditions increased accessibility of death-related thoughts (Study 4), these results do not emerge because only the pure death induction makes death salient. At the same time, Study 5 showed that implicitly measured control motivation was increased in the pure death salience condition but not under salience of both self-determined death and dental pain. Finally, in Study 6, the authors manipulated MS and control salience (CS) independently and found a main effect for CS but not for MS on WD. The results are discussed with regard to a group-based control restoration account of terror management findings.

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MS was shown to increase identification with salient ingroups.
“Supporting this idea, MS was shown to increase identification with salient ingroups (Castano et al., 2002; Fritsche et al., 2008; Giannakakis & Fritsche, 2011; Jonas & Fritsche, 2012; Sani et al., 2009).”
From Do Salient Social Norms Moderate Mortality Salience Effects? A (Challenging) Meta-Analysis of Terror Management Studies (2023) · cites this paper as Fritsche et al., 2008
Group-based control theory predicts that people increasingly act on the collective level of their self to restore a sense of control after their personal-level control has been threatened.
“As an alternative social identity–inspired approach, group-based control theory (Fritsche, 2022) predicts that people increasingly act on the collective level of their self (i.e., act in terms of ingroup norms; Stollberg et al., 2017) to restore a sense of control after their personal-level control has been threatened (e.g., due to MS; Fritsche et al., 2008).”
From Do Salient Social Norms Moderate Mortality Salience Effects? A (Challenging) Meta-Analysis of Terror Management Studies (2023) · cites this paper as Fritsche et al., 2008
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Authors: Fritsche, I., Jonas, E., & Fankhänel, T.
Affiliations: Friedrich Schiller University Jena (DE)
University of Salzburg (AT)
ORCID: Fritsche, Immo
Jonas, Eva
Venue: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Published: 2008-09
Volume: 95
Issue: 3
Pages: 524-541
ISSN: 0022-3514 (ISSN-L)
1939-1315
DOI: 10.1037/a0012666
OpenAlex: W2013134249
Cited by: 252
References: 87
Citations by year: 2026: 10 · 2025: 21 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 20 · 2020: 23 · 2019: 15 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 11 · 2016: 9 · 2015: 20 · 2014: 18 · 2013: 17 · 2012: 8
FWCI: 14.67
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Locations: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders: German Research Foundation (FR 2067/1-1; FR 2067/1 -2; FR 2067/1-3)
Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
Social Sciences › Anthropology › Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning
Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
Keywords: mortality salience, terror management theory, worldview defense, control motivation, dental pain, death-related thoughts
MeSH terms: Adaptation, Psychological, Adolescent, Adult, Attitude to Death, Defense Mechanisms, Female, Humans, Individuality, Internal-External Control, Male, Motivation, Politics, Psychological Theory, Sex Factors, Social Control, Formal, Social Identification, Social Perception, Social Support, Social Values, Suicide, Toothache, Uncertainty, Young Adult

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