Mortality Salience and Its Effects on Peace Processes
A Review
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5338732 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniela Niesta, Daniela Niesta Kayser (0000-0001-7358-3735, University of Rochester, corresponding author), Immo Fritsche (0000-0001-6022-8021, Friedrich Schiller University Jena), Eva Jonas (0000-0003-1016-3076, University of Salzburg) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 48-58 |
| Publication date | 2008-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1864-9335 • E-ISSN: 2151-2590 |
| Publisher | Hogrefe Publishing Group (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1027/1864-9335.39.1.48 |
| OpenAlex | W2131196142 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
| References cited | 53 |
The present paper offers a review of the relationship between existential individual threats and peace-hampering as well as peace-facilitating factors. An overwhelming bulk of literature on terror management theory (TMT) demonstrates negative effects of mortality salience such as derogation of outgroup members, prejudice, stereotyping, aggression, and racism. These negative reactions may be detrimental in peace-processes and critical in explaining intergroup conflicts, severe hostilities, and war. Complementary empirical insights derived from TMT, however, demonstrate positive effects of mortality salience (MS) that lead to prosocial reactions. The findings that are reviewed throughout this paper aim at reconciling the seemingly contradictory findings of antisocial and prosocial reactions to reminders of death. In concluding, a variety of conceivable interventions are discussed that may override genuinely detrimental consequences of MS and help to foster peace processes
Aggression · Cognitive psychology · Derogation · Developmental psychology · Mortality salience · Outgroup · Prosocial behavior · Psychological intervention · Terror management theory · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
Faces in the face of death
Mortality salience and evaluations of in‐group versus out‐group critics
Developing Moral Agency through Narrative
History of Social Psychology
Two Decades of Terror Management Theory
Psychometric properties of the assessment of Covid‐19 attitudes and behaviors
Who Uses Groups to Transcend the Limits of the Individual Self? Exploring the Effects of Interdependent Self-Construal and Mortality Salience on Investment in Social Groups
G(r)o(w)ing International
Collective Reactions to Threat
The Threat of Nuclear Proliferation
The Effect of Mortality Salience on Implicit Bias
Focus theory of normative conduct and terror-management theory
Identity Exploration, Commitment, and Existential Anxiety as Predictors of the Forms and Functions of Aggression
Empathy, Social Dominance Orientation, Mortality Salience, and Perceptions of a Criminal Defendant
Does mortality salience produce positive effects on hotel employee behaviors? A temporal distance perspective
The effect of mortality salience on weapon bias
Defining a Moment in History
Meaning threat can promote peaceful, not only military‐based approaches to intergroup conflict
Intrinsic religiosity reduces intergroup hostility under mortality salience
The Constitution of Death Valence as a Key to Intervene in Social Discrimination
The aftermath of destruction
Cultural complex, death anxiety and individuation during times of populism
Social Psychology and Peace
The Effects of Mortality Salience and Social Dominance Orientation on Attitudes Toward Illegal Immigrants
The Scrooge Effect
I Belong, therefore, I Exist
Terror Management Theory of Self-Esteem and Cultural Worldviews
A Terror Management Theory of Social Behavior
Contact and Cooperation
Subliminal Exposure to Death-Related Stimuli Increases Defense of the Cultural Worldview
Deliver us from Evil
Mortality Salience, Martyrdom, and Military Might
A dual-process model of defense against conscious and unconscious death-related thoughts
The Existential Function of Close Relationships
Intergroup relations
Social Psychology of Intergroup Relations
Rediscovering the Social Group
Justice and Social Conflict
On defeating death
Death Concerns and Other Adaptive Challenges
International Collaboration under Threat
The anxiety buffering function of close relationships
Terror management and the vicissitudes of sports fan affiliation
Prejudice as self-image maintenance
Terror management and tolerance
Evidence for terror management theory II
Stress and accessibility of proximity-related thoughts
Effects of Self-Esteem on Vulnerability-Denying Defensive Distortions
An enquiry concerning the principles of cultural norms and values
Evidence for terror management theory
Role of consciousness and accessibility of death-related thoughts in mortality salience effects
Terror management and aggression
Derogation and distancing as terror management strategies
Self-regulatory processes defend against the threat of death
Terror management theory and self-esteem
Compensatory conviction in the face of personal uncertainty
Terror management and religion
Hiding in the crowd
Focus theory of normative conduct and terror-management theory
Stereotypes and terror management
The role of control motivation in mortality salience effects on ingroup support and defense
Social Psychology's Contribution to the Psychological Study of Peace
The need to belong
In-group bias in the minimal intergroup situation
Terrorism Salience increases System Justification
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2025 (18) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |