Terror management and cognitive-experiential self-theory
Evidence that terror management occurs in the experiential system
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6205952 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Linda Simon (University of Arizona, corresponding author), Jeff Greenberg (0000-0002-2206-0771), Eddie Harmon-Jones (0000-0003-4771-3043, University of Arizona), Sheldon Solomon (0000-0002-7035-2082, Skidmore College), Tom Pyszczynski (0000-0003-4008-3384, University of Colorado Colorado Springs), Et Al, et al et al, Jamie Arndt (University of Arizona), Teresa Abend, Teresa A Abend (University of Arizona) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 72 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1132-1146 |
| Publication date | 1997-01-01 |
| 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//0022-3514.72.5.1132 |
| PMID | 9150588 |
| OpenAlex | W4252668152 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 52 |
| References cited | 31 |
The authors hypothesized, on the basis of terror management theory and cognitive-experiential self-theory, that participants in an experiential mode of thinking would respond to mortality salience with increased worldview defense and increased accessibility of death-related thoughts, whereas participants in a rational mode would not. Results from 3 studies provided convergent evidence that when participants were in an experiential mode, mortality salience produced the typical worldview defense effect, but when participants were in a rational mode it did not. Study 4 revealed that mortality salience also led to a delayed increase in the accessibility of death-related thoughts only when participants were in an experiential mode. These results supported the notion that worldwide defense is intensified only if individuals are in an experiential mode when considering their mortality. Discussion focuses on implications for understanding terror management processes
Anxiety · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Experiential avoidance · Experiential learning · Mortality salience · Psychiatry · Salience (neuroscience · Terror management theory · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Leadership, Courage, and Heroism Studies · Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs · Psychology · Social Psychology
Religiosity in times of crisis
Anxiety buffer disruption
Self-affirmation attenuates death-thought accessibility after mortality salience, but not among a high post-traumatic stress sample
Rational Versus Experiential Processing of Negative Feedback Reduces Defensiveness but Induces Ego Depletion
Researcher Effects on Mortality Salience Research
The scientific legacy of Sigmund Freud
A theoretical and empirical review of the death-thought accessibility concept in terror management research
Terror management and attributions of blame to innocent victims
Reducing defensive responses to thoughts of death
Contrasting the Effects of Mortality Salience and Future Time Limitation on Goal Prioritization in Older and Younger Adults
In the wake of 9/11
A dual-process model of defense against conscious and unconscious death-related thoughts
Impulse and Constraint
The implications of death for health
Deliver us from Evil
Thirty Years of Terror Management Theory
Mortality salience and the spreading activation of worldview-relevant constructs
Proximal and Distal Defenses in Response to Reminders of One’s Mortality
An Exploratory Study of Death Anxiety and Trainees' Choice of Theoretical Orientation
Unconscious death thoughts
An Investigation Into the Unconscious Influence of Mortality Salience Upon Sentencing Decisions
Latent profiles of death anxiety among young adults
How does mortality salience influences personal identity-based consumption? The role of meaning in life
Fighting death with health inequality
How and why terrorism corrupts the consistency principle of organizational justice
Mortality salience in an offline and online setting
International Collaboration under Threat
Terror management theory and self-esteem revisited
Ghosts, UFOs, and magic
Stereotypes and terror management
Bridging the partisan divide
Cancer and the threat of death
Aspects of Love
An Exploratory Study of Death Anxiety and Trainees' Choice of Theoretical Orientation
Does mortality salience produce positive effects on hotel employee behaviors? A temporal distance perspective
When being far away is good
Scared to death or scared to love? Terror management theory and close relationships seeking
Clarifying the Function of Mortality Salience-Induced Worldview Defense
Pearls in the desert
Unintended effects of measuring implicit processes
Defending one's worldview under mortality salience
Diverging effects of mortality salience on variety seeking
Controlling death by defending ingroups — Mediational insights into terror management and control restoration
The aftermath of destruction
Literal and symbolic immortality
Threat and Decision Making
What's in a name
Compensatory conviction in the face of personal uncertainty
Hiding in the crowd
Terror Management in the Courtroom
How terrorism cues affect attitude polarization over undocumented immigrants via negative emotions and information avoidance
The Effects of Death Reminders on Sex Differences in Prejudice Toward Gay Men and Lesbians
Social identity theory
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
Multiple Processes by which Attitudes Guide Behavior
Under what conditions does theory obstruct research progress?
Whistling in the Dark
Why Do We Need What We Need? A Terror Management Perspective on the Roots of Human Social Motivation
The Causes and Consequences of a Need for Self-Esteem
Judgment under Uncertainty
Implicit social cognition
Public Self and Private Self
The principle of short‐circuiting of threat
Testing alternative explanations for mortality salience effects
Threat as a factor in authoritarianism
Terror management and tolerance
Evidence for terror management theory II
Effects of Self-Esteem on Vulnerability-Denying Defensive Distortions
Integration of the cognitive and the psychodynamic unconscious
Exacerbation of extreme responses to an out-group
Role of consciousness and accessibility of death-related thoughts in mortality salience effects
Suppression, accessibility of death-related thoughts, and cultural worldview defense
Causal versus diagnostic contingencies
Economic threat as a determinant of conversion rates in authoritarian and nonauthoritarian churches
Cognitive-experiential self-theory and subjective probability
On the spontaneity of trait attribution
Why do people need self-esteem? Converging evidence that self-esteem serves an anxiety-buffering function
Downward comparison, prejudice, and evaluations of others
Two indirect tactics of image management
Self- versus peer ratings of specific emotional traits
The Implications of Cognitive-experiential Self-theory for Research in Social Psychology and Personality1
| Unique citing works | 52 |
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| Citations per year | 1,86 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2026 (29) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 43 |