The Effects of Mortality Salience on Self-Serving Attributions-Evidence for the Function of Self-Esteem as a Terror Management Mechanism

By Mario Mikulincer, V. Florian. 2002

114 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Health, Social Psychology

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In Clinical Psychology

1. J. Greenberg
2. T. Pyszczynski
3. S. Solomon
4. Immo Fritsche
5. Katrin Häfner
6. T. Proulx
7. Constantine Sedikides
8. Jamie Arndt

In Health

1. S. Solomon
2. J. Greenberg
3. Constantine Sedikides
4. Jamie Arndt
5. Kathleen D. Vohs
6. C. Routledge
7. T. Wildschut
8. T. Pyszczynski

In Social Psychology

1. Constantine Sedikides
2. T. Wildschut
3. C. Routledge
4. Jamie Arndt
5. J. Greenberg
6. T. Pyszczynski
7. S. Solomon
8. T. Proulx

Citations in the corpus

• The Malicious Effects of Existential Threat on Motivation to Protect the Natural Environment and the Role of Environmental Identity as a Moderator (2012, background): “As an alternative anxiety-buffer strategy, people like to see themselves as valued members of their culture, expressed by increased self-esteem striving following mortality salience (e.g., Mikulincer & Florian, 2002; for a recent metaanalysis, see Burke, Martens, & Faucher, 2010).”
• Death and Black Diamonds: Meaning, Mortality, and the Meaning Maintenance Model (2006, background): “Similarly, boosts to self-esteem have been shown to eliminate the effects of mortality salience, both on death thought accessibility and on worldview defense ( Harmon-Jones et al, 1997 ; Mikulincer & Florian, 2002 ).”
• On the Unique Psychological Import of the Human Awareness of Mortality: Theme and Variations (2006, unknown): “…that increasing self-esteem (Arndt & Greenberg, 1999; Harmon-Jones et al., 1997); defending self-esteem by engaging in self-serving attributions (Mikulincer & Florian, 2002, Study 3); priming religiosity among intrinsically, but not extrinsically, religious persons (Jonas & Fischer, 2006); and…”
• A blast from the past: The terror management function of nostalgia. (2008, methodology): “Schmeichel and Martens (2005), Mikulincer and Florian (2002), and Harmon-Jones et al. (1997) found similar buVering eVects for self-aYrmation, self-serving bias, and self-esteem boosts, respectively.”
• Why do people need self-esteem? A theoretical and empirical review. (2004, background): “…regarding self-esteem dynamics have been shown to be exaggerated or increased in magnitude when death-related thoughts are made accessible (e.g., Arndt, Greenberg, et al., 2002; Dechesne, Greenberg, et al., 2000; Mikulincer & Florian, 2002; Simon et al., 1997; Taubman Ben-Ari et al., 1999).”
• The Meaning Maintenance Model: On the Coherence of Social Motivations (2006, background): “…framework, which has identified a variety of meaning boosts that diminish the impact of mortality salience (e.g., Dechesne, Janssen, & van Knippenberg, 2000; Harmon-Jones et al., 1997; Mikulincer & Florian, 2002; Schmeichel & Martens, in press; Van den Bos & Miedema, 2000; Wisman & Koole, 2003).”