Death Can Be Good for Your Health: Fitness Intentions as a Proximal and Distal Defense Against Mortality Salience

By Jamie Arndt, Jeff Schimel, Jamie L. Goldenberg. 2003

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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Terror Management Theory and Research: How the Desire for Death Transcendence Drives Our Strivings for Meaning and Significance (2014, background): “When people based their self-worth on being tan or fit, nonconscious death thoughts motivated them to boost their intentions to tan or exercise (Arndt et al., 2003; Routledge, Arndt, and Goldenberg, 2004), and smokers who based their self-worth on smoking increased smoking intentions when graphic ci”
Let Us Eat and Drink, for Tomorrow We Shall Die: Effects of Mortality Salience and Self-Esteem on Self-Regulation in Consumer Choice (2005, background): “Mortality salience also increased fitness behavior intentions for those with high importance on fitness (Arndt et al. 2003) and increased the appeal of physical sex for those high in body esteem (Goldenberg et al. 2000; for other examples, see Pyszczynski et al. 2004, 439–45).”
Why do people need self-esteem? A theoretical and empirical review. (2004, background): “To investigate the application of the dual process defense model to health-related behavior, Arndt et al. (2003) recruited participants for whom fitness was either high or low in importance to their self-esteem, reminded them of their mortality or a control topic, and then assessed their fitness…”
The Sweet Escape: Effects of Mortality Salience on Consumption Quantities for High- and Low-Self-Esteem Consumers (2008, background): “This control manipulation was designed to produce some mildly negative feelings without producing any death-related thoughts or caus- ing the participants to lose interest in eating (Arndt et al. 2003).”