SynthesisPersonality and social psychology review : an official journal of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc2023
Do Salient Social Norms Moderate Mortality Salience Effects? A (Challenging) Meta-Analysis of Terror Management Studies.
Synthesis in Personality and social psychology review : an official journal of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- To change, but not to preserve! Norm conformity following control threat only emerges for change norms but not for status quo norms.Self and identity : the journal of the International Society for Self and Identity · 2024Article
- The impact of death priming on climate change denial: a preliminary investigation.F1000Research · 2024Article
- On the effectiveness of Buddhist view of life and death in regulating mortality salience.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Beyond the denial of death: death meditation increases a sense of connectedness and appreciation of life.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Exposure to the Death of Others during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Growing Mistrust in Medical Institutions as a Result of Personal Loss.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Not so terrifying after all? A set of failed replications of the mortality salience effects of Terror Management Theory.PloS one · 2023Article
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Abstract
Terror management theory postulates that mortality salience (MS) increases the motivation to defend one's cultural worldviews. How that motivation is expressed may depend on the social norm that is momentarily salient. Meta-analyses were conducted on studies that manipulated MS and social norm salience. Results based on 64 effect sizes for the hypothesized interaction between MS and norm salience revealed a small-to-medium effect of
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