Clarifying the Function of Mortality Salience-Induced Worldview Defense: Renewed Suppression or Reduced Accessibility of Death-Related Thoughts?

By J. Greenberg, Jamie Arndt, Jeff Schimel, T. Pyszczynski, S. Solomon. 2001

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Self-control relies on glucose as a limited energy source: willpower is more than a metaphor. (2007, background): “Past research has indicated that avoiding the thought of death is effortful and demanding (Arndt, Greenberg, Solomon, Pyszczynski, & Simon, 1997; Greenberg, Arndt, Schimel, Pyszczynski, & Solomon, 2001 ) and requires self-control (Gailliot et al., 2006).”
Offensive Defensiveness: Toward an Integrative Neuroscience of Compensatory Zeal After Mortality Salience, Personal Uncertainty, and Other Poignant Self-Threats (2006, background): “Initial evidence has suggested that zealous reactions to separation, cognitive dissonance, academic failure, uncertainty, and mortality salience do, indeed, serve the same purpose—relieving preoccupation with threats ( Greenberg, Arndt, Schimel, Pyszcznski, & Solomon, 2001 ; McGregor, 2004 , 2006a;”
Anxiety and Intergroup Bias: Terror Management or Coalitional Psychology? (2004, methodology): “Following the manipulation, participants completed the state PANAS-X (Watson & Clark, 1992), after which, following the method used by terror management researchers (Greenberg et al., 2001), they read two short essays ostensibly written by two foreign students.”
Why do people need self-esteem? A theoretical and empirical review. (2004, background): “Epistemologically, Laudan (1984), Harris (1979), and a host of other philosophers of science have argued that theories can be evaluated in terms of (a) degree of conceptual coherence and internal consistency, (b) how well they can explain what is currently known about a given area of empirical inqui”
Successfully challenging fundamentalist beliefs results in increased death awareness (2007, background): “Such “cultural worldviews” are one of the most important defenses against existential anxiety ( Greenberg, Arndt, Schimel, Pyszczynski, & Solomon, 2001; Schmeichel & Martens, 2005).”
On the Unique Psychological Import of the Human Awareness of Mortality: Theme and Variations (2006, background): “Although the death reminders used in these studies typically do not arouse negative affect, research shows that they increase the potential to experience anxiety, and it is this increased potential that motivates worldview defense (Greenberg et al., 2003). MS also increases the accessibility of cent”