Deliver us from Evil: The Effects of Mortality Salience and Reminders of 9/11 on Support for President George W. Bush

By M. Landau, S. Solomon, J. Greenberg, Florette Cohen, T. Pyszczynski, Jamie Arndt, Claude H. Miller, D. Ogilvie, Alison Cook. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2004

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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“Elective Affinities”: On the Psychological Bases of Left–Right Differences (2009, background): “…by flashing words on a computer screen or asking people to think or write about any of these topics) caused liberals as well as conservatives to increase their levels of support for President Bush and his agenda (e.g., Cohen, Ogilvie, Solomon, Greenberg, & Pyszczynski, 2005; Landau et al., 2004).”
Terror Management Theory and the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020, background): “…studies show that mortality salience leads to a shift toward more conservative attitudes regardless of political orientation (Cohen et al., 2017; Landau et al., 2004), others show it leads to polarization, with conservatives endorsing more conservative attitudes and liberals endorsing more…”
Terrorism Salience increases System Justification: Experimental Evidence (2007, background): “One may wonder, however, if this increase is due to heightened MS, as would be suggested by a terror management analysis of terrorism (Jost and Hunyady, 2005; Landau et al., 2004; Pyszczynski et al., 2003).”
Political ideology: its structure, functions, and elective affinities. (2009, background): “…election revealed that although college students favored Democratic challenger John Kerry in the control condition, they showed a preference reversal following exposure to mortality salience primes, supporting Republican President George W. Bush instead (Cohen et al. 2005, Landau et al. 2004).”
How terrorism news reports increase prejudice against outgroups: A terror management account (2009, background): “Also, priming participants subliminally with 9/11 stimuli increased death related thoughts (Landau et al., 2004).”
On the Unique Psychological Import of the Human Awareness of Mortality: Theme and Variations (2006, background): “Research has shown that death thought accessibility is increased by subliminal presentation of the numerals 911 or the letters WTC (Landau et al., 2004b, Study 4), reminders of cancer (Arndt, Cook, Goldenberg, & Cox, in press), reminders of animality (Cox, Goldenberg, Pyszczynski, & Weise, in press)”
The “Antidemocratic Personality” Revisited: A Cross‐National Investigation of Working‐Class Authoritarianism (2008, background): “Research suggests that threat increases both political conservatism and authoritarianism (e.g., Doty, Peterson, & Winter, 1991; Feldman & Stenner, 2003; Jost et al., 2003a,b; Landau et al., 2004).”
The People Paradox: Self-Esteem Striving, Immortality Ideologies, and Human Response to Climate Change (2009, background): “A previous study demonstrated that people asked to think about death gave George W. Bush elevated approval ratings (Landau et al. 2004).”
Going to College and Unpacking Hazing: A Functional Approach to Decrypting Initiation Practices Among Undergraduates (2005, background): “Processes such as these may be unleashed among constituencies as large as nations (Landau et al., 2004; Rosenblatt, 1964) or as small as universities and social clubs (Baumeister & Leary, 1995; Hermanowicz & Morgan, 1999; Moreland & Levine, 1989).”