The Death-Anxiety Buffering Function of Close Relationships: Exploring the Effects of Separation Reminders on Death-Thought Accessibility

By Mario Mikulincer, V. Florian, Gurit E. Birnbaum, Shira Malishkevich. 2002

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Daniel M.T. Fessler
2. Robert Kurzban
3. Jeff Schimel
4. W. Rholes
5. C. David Navarrete
6. K. van den Bos
7. Erik H. Faucher
8. Lee A. Kirkpatrick

In Social Psychology

1. C. David Navarrete
2. Daniel M.T. Fessler
3. Robert Kurzban
4. Lee A. Kirkpatrick
5. W. Rholes
6. Mike Friedman
7. Jeff Schimel
8. K. van den Bos

Citations in the corpus

• Normative Bias and Adaptive Challenges: A Relational Approach to Coalitional Psychology and a Critique of Terror Management Theory (2005, background): “Recent terror management research has documented that group identification and close social relationships are key themes in the investigation of intergroup bias and ideology defense (Florian et al., 2002; Hirschberger, Florian, and Mikulincer, 2003; Mikulincer et al., 2002).”
• Anxiety and Intergroup Bias: Terror Management or Coalitional Psychology? (2004, background): “Indeed, recent terror management research has documented that group identification and close social relationships are key themes in the investigation of intergroup bias and ideology defense (e.g. Mikulincer et al., 2002).”
• An enquiry concerning the principles of cultural norms and values: The impact of uncertainty and mortality salience on reactions to violations and bolstering of cultural worldviews (2005, background): “For example, Mikulincer, Florian, Birnbaum, and Malishkevich (2002) showed that imagining being separated from a relationship partner enhanced subsequent death-thought accessibility and it may be difficult to explain these findings from an uncertainty management account.”
• Evidence for the DTA hypothesis II: Threatening self-esteem increases death-thought accessibility (2008, background): “Indeed, with the addition of the research reported in this article, higher levels of DTA have now been observed following threats to people’s cultural worldview, belief in a just world, romantic relationships, and self-esteem (Florian, Mikulincer, & Hirschberger, 2002; Friedman & Rholes, 2007; Hayes”
• Successfully challenging fundamentalist beliefs results in increased death awareness (2007, background): “Drawing on TMT’s anxiety buVer hypothesis, we hypothesized that encountering this challenge would increase death-thought accessibility among fundamentalists, but not among other Christians, for whom the belief in biblical inerrancy is not as central (e.g., Florian et al., 2002; Goldenberg et al., 20”