Terror management and aggression
Evidence that mortality salience motivates aggression against worldview-threatening others
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6205528 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Holly A Mcgregor, Joel D Lieberman, Jeff Greenberg (0000-0002-2206-0771), Sheldon Solomon (0000-0002-7035-2082), Jamie Arndt, Linda Simon, Tom Pyszczynski (0000-0003-4008-3384) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 590-605 |
| Publication date | 1998-01-01 |
| 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 | 10.1037/0022-3514.74.3.590 |
| OpenAlex | W4296746719 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 166 |
Aggression · Cognitive psychology · Developmental psychology · Medical emergency · Mortality salience · Poison control · Salience (neuroscience) · Terror management theory · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Optimism, Hope, and Well-being · Psychology · Social Psychology
Upholding social hierarchies
The effect of mortality salience on consumers' preference for experiential purchases and its mechanism
Negative urgency and emotion regulation strategy use
The effects of existential threat on reading comprehension of worldview affirming and disconfirming information
Experimental Existential Psychology
Terror Management Theory
The Scrooge Effect
Threat and Defense
Death anxiety and its role in psychopathology
When Death is Good for Life
Self-Affirmation and Mortality Salience
Mortality Salience Increases Adherence to Salient Norms and Values
Deliver us from Evil
Making Sense of Life
Thirty Years of Terror Management Theory
Boosting Attachment Security to Promote Mental Health, Prosocial Values, and Inter-Group Tolerance
Mortality salience and the spreading activation of worldview-relevant constructs
Death anxiety in the time of Covid-19
The Existential Function of Close Relationships
The Meaning Maintenance Model
Fleeing the Body
Perceived Intergroup Threat and Attitudes of Host Community Members Toward Immigrant Acculturation
Moral Foundations Theory
Mortality Salience Increases Personal Relevance of the Norm of Reciprocity
The Urge to Splurge
Building blocks of communication networks in times of crises
Two Decades of Terror Management Theory
Ma(r)king The Unthinkable
Aggressive measures, rising inequalities, and mass formation during the Covid-19 crisis
Self‐affirmation reduces vigilance to mortality threat
Intolerant of being tolerant? Examining the impact of intergroup toleration on relative left frontal activity and outgroup attitudes
Effects of death anxiety on fear of missing out
Existential Threat Fuels Worldview Defense, but not after Priming Autonomy Orientation
Exploring schadenfreude from the perspectives of deservingness and terror management theories
What If They’re Right About the Afterlife? Evidence of the Role of Existential Threat on Anti-Atheist Prejudice
Opposing and Promoting Effects
Activism as a heroic quest for symbolic immortality
Righteous violence
Experimental peace psychology
Terror Management Theory
Subconscious Gatekeeping
Ontological insecurity’ and ‘terror management’
Casualties and Support for Violent Conflict in Civil Wars
Existential threat and responses to emotional displays of ingroup and outgroup members
Prejudicial reactions to the removal of Native American mascots
Anxiety and Intergroup Bias
Cyberbomb
Collective narcissism and anti-Semitism in Poland
Of Mice and Men, and Objectified Women
Fighting death with health inequality
Death in Groups
When thinking of my death leads to thinking of others’ deaths
Justification of intergroup violence among Israeli Jews
(Con)spirituality as a curriculum of immortality
The Existential Quest
Death awareness and organizational behavior
How and why terrorism corrupts the consistency principle of organizational justice
Mortality salience in an offline and online setting
Psychological Defenses Against Death Anxiety
Mortality Salience and Positive Affect Influence Adolescents' Attitudes Toward Peers with Physical Disabilities
Self-Consciousness and Death Cognitions from a Terror Management Perspective
How collective and personal mortality salience impacts antagonism against worldview-threatening others
Death, love, and evolution
Gender Differences in the Willingness to Engage in Risky Behavior
Psychosocial Analysis of the Collective Processes in the United States After September 11
In Defense of the Body
How mortality awareness regulates intertemporal Choice
Under the veil of tolerance
Stigma and Discrimination During Covid-19 Pandemic
Can boredom help? Increased prosocial intentions in response to boredom
Examining Belief in a Just World, Religious Worldviews, and Self-Esteem Within the Framework of Terror Management Theory
Disease, death, morality, and politics
Adaptive time management
Structured Terror
Desire in the face of death
Identity Exploration, Commitment, and Existential Anxiety as Predictors of the Forms and Functions of Aggression
Understanding human ambivalence about sex
Attachment, Self-Esteem, Worldviews, and Terror Management
The siren's call
In Search of the Missing Links Between Economic Insecurity and Political Protest
Empathy, Social Dominance Orientation, Mortality Salience, and Perceptions of a Criminal Defendant
Modelling terror management theory
Beyond terror
On defeating death
Applying terror management theory as a framework to understand the impact of heightened mortality salience on children, adolescents, and their parents
Coping with ongoing terror threats
The vegan dilemma
Terror management and acculturation
The effect of mortality salience on weapon bias
Globalization, religious fundamentalism and the need for meaning
Emotional arousal and gender differences in aggression
A hot new way to measure aggression
Trait aggressiveness predicting aggressive behavior
Hot Sauce, toy guns, and graffiti
The competitive reaction time task
Behavioral and self-reported aggression as a function of domain-specific self-esteem
Feeling fear as power and oppression
Fighting the future with the past
The control of death and the death of control
Intrinsic religiosity reduces intergroup hostility under mortality salience
| Unique citing works | 166 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6,15 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2026 (28) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 162 |