An existentialist view on mortality salience effects: Personal hardiness, death‐thought accessibility, and cultural worldview defence
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Two studies examined the possible moderating role of hardiness on reactions to mortality salience inductions. A sample of 240 Israeli undergraduate students completed a hardiness scale, were exposed to a mortality salience or control induction, and then either rated the severity and punishment of 10 social transgressions (Study 1, N = 120) or performed a word‐stem completion task, which tapped the accessibility of death‐related thoughts (Study 2, N = 120). Results indicated that a mortality salience induction led to more severe judgments of social transgressions as well as to more severe punishments than a control induction only among participants scoring low in the hardiness scale. However, a mortality salience induction led to a higher cognitive accessibility of death‐related thoughts than a control condition regardless of participants' hardiness scores. The discussion emphasizes the importance of considering inner resources when examining reactions to mortality reminders.
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Mortality reminders increased death-thought accessibility regardless of hardiness levels, but only those low on hardiness increased punishment severity.
“Mortality reminders increased death-thought accessibility regardless of hardiness levels, but only those low on hardiness increased punishment severity.”
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- Authors
- Florian, V., Mikulincer, M., & Hirschberger, G.
- Affiliations
- Bar-Ilan University (IL)
- Venue
- British Journal of Social Psychology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2001-09
- Volume
- 40
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 437-453
- ISSN
- 0144-6665 (ISSN-L)
- 2044-8309
- OpenAlex
- W2034333293
- Cited by
- 56
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- 0
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- FWCI
- 2.20
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- British Journal of Social Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- 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, death-thought accessibility, existentialism, social transgression, punishment judgments, death-related thoughts, moderating effect
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Attitude to Death, Cross-Cultural Comparison, Defense Mechanisms, Existentialism, Female, Humans, Israel, Male, Personality, Projective Techniques, Social Perception
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