The effects of personal and collective mortality salience on individualism: Comparing Australians and Japanese with higher and lower self-esteem

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Two Decades of Terror Management Theory: A Meta-Analysis of Mortality Salience Research (2010, background): “Other recent work has been examining aspects of the threat of death such as lack of control over death (Fritsche, Jonas, & Fankhanel, 2008) and dying alone versus with others (Kashima et al., 2004).”
On defeating death: Group reification and social identification as immortality strategies (2005, background): “by Kashima et al. (2004) may have resonated very differently in the two cultures.”
Why do people need self-esteem? A theoretical and empirical review. (2004, background): “Conceptually similar research has found that whereas Australian participants with low self-esteem respond to reminders of mortality by becoming more individualistic in their behavior, Japanese participants with low self-esteem respond to MS by becoming less individualistic in their behavior (Kashima”