In the Wake of 9/11: The Psychology of Terror

By L. DeLisi. 2003

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Introducing Science to the Psychology of the Soul (2006, methodology): “People’s initial, conscious reaction to mortality salience is to deny their personal vulnerability to impending death (e.g., ‘‘I am a healthy person, death is far off’’) and to suppress further deathrelated thoughts (Pyszczynski et al., 2003).”
Threat, Authoritarianism, and Selective Exposure to Information (2005, methodology): “Half of our respondents were randomly assigned to the high-threat condition via a mortality salience induction in which subjects responded to the following two standard queries: “Please write down, as specifically as you can, what you think will happen to you as you physically die and once you are d”