Creative terror management: Creativity as a facilitator of cultural exploration after mortality salience
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Research indicates that people respond to the elicitation of death thoughts by dogmatically defending their cultural worldviews. The current research examines the potential for conditions of creativity, a construct associated with open-mindedness, to promote a more explorative reaction to the threat of death thoughts. In Studies 1 and 2, thoughts of death or a control topic were activated and then participants engaged in either a creative or a control task. In Study 3, thoughts of death or a control topic were activated and then participants were presented with information suggesting that creativity is or is not culturally valued. After these conditions, social, intellectual, and environmental exploration (Study 1) and cultural worldview exploration (Studies 2 and 3) were measured. Results indicated that both engaging in a creative task and being informed that creativity is culturally valued facilitated exploration in response to thinking about death. Conceptual and applied implications are discussed.
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When in a creative mind-set, MS enhanced social, intellectual, and environmental exploration, as well as the exploration of alternative secular and religious cultural worldviews.
“Specifically, when in a creative mind-set, MS enhanced social, intellectual, and environmental exploration, as well as the exploration of alternative secular and religious cultural worldviews.”
From When Death is Good for Life: Considering the Positive Trajectories of Terror Management (2012) · cites this paper as Routledge & Arndt, 2009
When in a creative mindset, mortality salience enhanced social, intellectual, and environmental exploration, as well as the exploration of alternative secular and religious cultural worldviews.
“Specifically, when in a creative mindset, MS enhanced social, intellectual, and environmental exploration, as well as the exploration of alternative secular and religious cultural worldviews [106,107].”
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- Authors
- Routledge, C. D., & Arndt, J.
- Affiliations
- North Dakota State University (US)
- University of Missouri (US)
- Corresponding author
- Routledge, Clay D.
- Venue
- Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2009-01-22
- Volume
- 35
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 493-505
- ISSN
- 0146-1672 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-7433
- OpenAlex
- W2168481107
- Cited by
- 69
- References
- 62
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 18 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 6
- FWCI
- 5.64
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
- Keywords
- creativity, mortality salience, terror management theory, open-mindedness, death thoughts, exploration, social exploration, environmental exploration
- MeSH terms
- Adaptation, Psychological, Adolescent, Attitude to Death, Cognition, Creativity, Culture, Defense Mechanisms, Female, Humans, Male, Pain Measurement, Young Adult
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