Lost in the Wilderness
Terror Management, Action Orientation, and Nature Evaluation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6200725 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sander L Koole (0000-0002-3422-223X, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Agnes E Van Den Berg (0000-0002-7332-5397, Wageningen University & Research) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 88 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1014-1028 |
| Publication date | 2005-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/0022-3514.88.6.1014 |
| PMID | 15982119 |
| OpenAlex | W2131516029 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 48 |
| References cited | 59 |
The authors propose that wilderness is intrinsically associated with death, and, consequently, terror management concerns may promote more negative evaluations of wilderness. Consistent with this, wilderness inspired more thoughts about death than either cultivated nature or urban environments (Study 1), and death reminders reduced perceived beauty of wilderness (Study 2). The authors further suggest that active self-regulation facilitates suppression of the dark side of wilderness. Consistent with this, action orientation was positively related to perceived beauty of wilderness (Study 3), and after viewing wilderness, action-oriented individuals were more efficient at suppressing the association between wilderness and death than state-oriented individuals (Study 4). Direct death reminders overruled the effects of action orientation on nature evaluation (Study 5), presumably because direct death reminders are difficult to suppress even for action-oriented individuals
Action (physics) · Beauty · Environmental ethics · Orientation (vector space) · Political science · Wilderness · Wilderness area · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Ecology · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Urban Green Space and Health
Nature relatedness
Walkerton revisited
Disgust sensitivity predicts defensive responding to mortality salience
Automatic emotion regulation after social exclusion
Provoking the Citizen
A theoretical and empirical review of the death-thought accessibility concept in terror management research
Ambivalent landscapes—wilderness in the urban interstices
Experimental Existential Psychology
Flourishing in nature
A Social Identity Model of Pro-Environmental Action (Simpea).
Go greener, feel better? The positive effects of biodiversity on the well-being of individuals visiting urban and peri-urban green areas
Evaluating restoration in urban green spaces
Where the wild things are! Do urban green spaces with greater avian biodiversity promote more positive emotions in humans?
Why Is Nature Beneficial?
New wilderness in the Netherlands
Flourishing or Frightening? Feelings about Natural and Built Green Spaces in Singapore
An Experimental Exploration of the Effects of Exposure to Images of Nature on Rumination
Two Decades of Terror Management Theory
The impact of mortality salience on environmental concerns and diet intentions
Nature connectedness taking into account its negative elements / Conectividad con la naturaleza atendiendo a los elementos negativos de la misma
Psychometric Evaluation of the Action Control Scale in Turkish Samples and the Relationship of Action–State Orientation with Emotional Labor
Relationship Between Urban Tree Diversity and Human Well-being
Faith and Nature
Fear, anger and responsibility
Life after death
Terror Management Theory and mortality awareness
Climate change risk and terror management theory
Love honey, hate honey bees’
Ambivalence in the Woods
Evidence for an Association Between Women and Nature
An Eco-Existential Understanding of Time and Psychological Defenses
Transcendent Experiences in Wild and Manicured Settings
Death Anxiety is Associated With Less Health Behavior for Individuals Low in Action Orientation
Becoming who you are
Assembling Homelessness
Mortality management and climate action
Landscape Aesthetics and Maintenance Perceptions
When You See Nature, Nature Give You Something Inside”
The Promise of Wilderness Between Paradise and Hell
The nature of death and the death of nature
Imagining climate change
Romantic love versus reproduction opportunities
Could this happen to me?”
Exploring urban novel ecosystems
When possessions become part of the self
Differentiating the effects of self-control and self-esteem on reactions to mortality salience
The aftermath of destruction
Power and Action Orientation
Advances In Experimental Social Psychology
Biophilia
Fears, phobias, and preparedness
A Functional-Design Approach to Motivation and Self-Regulation
Nature is Scary, Disgusting, and Uncomfortable
Terror Management Theory of Self-Esteem and Cultural Worldviews
A Terror Management Theory of Social Behavior
Subliminal Exposure to Death-Related Stimuli Increases Defense of the Cultural Worldview
I am not an animal
Tracking restoration in natural and urban field settings
Emotion Regulation
Environmental preference and restoration
Transcendent Experience in Forest Environments
Fleeing the Body
A Shortened Version of the Profile of Mood States
Toward a Self-Evaluation Maintenance Model of Social Behavior
Psychological Restoration in Nature as a Positive Motivation for Ecological Behavior
Ironic processes of mental control.
Why Do We Need What We Need? A Terror Management Perspective on the Roots of Human Social Motivation
The experience of landscape
Hierarchical linear models
Restorative Experience and Self-Regulation in Favorite Places
New Look 3
The Duality of Wilderness
Human Behavior and Environment
Testing alternative explanations for mortality salience effects
Efficiency under record performance demands
Efficiency under record performance demands
Getting a Grip on Your Feelings
Trivialization
The sex → aggression link
The cessation of rumination through self-affirmation
Motivational and functional helplessness
The silence of the library
Self-discrimination and memory
Intuition, affect, and personality
A room with a cue
Fear of death and the judgment of social transgressions
A New Ecological Paradigm for Post-Exuberant Sociology
New Directions in Environmental Sociology
| Unique citing works | 48 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,4 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2025 (20) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 42 |