The nature of death and the death of nature: The impact of mortality salience on environmental concern

By Matthew Vess, Jamie Arndt. 2008

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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The dragons of inaction: psychological barriers that limit climate change mitigation and adaptation. (2011, background): “Terror management theory (e.g., Goldenberg, Pyszczynski, Greenberg, & Solomon, 2000) suggests that people may deny the problem because it is a reminder of their mortality (Vess & Arndt, 2008).”
Self-identity threat and resistance to change: Evidence from regular travel behaviour (2012, background): “Feinberg and Willer (2011) explored just-world beliefs, Feygina, Jost and Goldsmith (2010) looked at group-based beliefs, and Vess and Arndt (2008) investigated threats to mortality and environmental concern.”
Cross-Cultural Validation of A Revised Environmental Identity Scale (2021, background): “For those whose identity is linked to the natural environment, environmental issues are likely to have greater emotional resonance, and pro-environmental behaviors are likely to be positively evaluated [4].”
Psychology and Global Climate Change: Addressing a Multi-faceted Phenomenon and Set of Challenges A Report by the American Psychological Association's Task Force on the Interface Between Psychology and Global Climate Change Members (2009, background): “…environment illustrated that increased mortality salience resulted in decrease concern about protecting the environment among those who did not derive their self-esteem from the environment and had the opposite effect on those who derived their self-esteem from the environment (Vess & Arndt, 2008).”
The Malicious Effects of Existential Threat on Motivation to Protect the Natural Environment and the Role of Environmental Identity as a Moderator (2012, background): “…research helps to understand divergent results in research on the effects death awareness has on environmental behavior (Fritsche et al., 2010; Vess & Arndt, 2008) by throwing light on the motivational processes involved: Proenvironmental action should be reduced under conditions of threat…”
Terror Management Theory and Research: How the Desire for Death Transcendence Drives Our Strivings for Meaning and Significance (2014, background): “motivate pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors (Fritsche et al., 2010; Vess and Arndt, 2008).”