Terror management and the vicissitudes of sports fan affiliation: The effects of mortality salience on optimism and fan identification.

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Sympathy for the Devil: Evidence That Reminding Whites of Their Mortality Promotes More Favorable Reactions to White Racists (2001, background): “Recent research in fact shows that after mortality salience people often disidentify with a group they belong to if negative characteristics of that group are salient ( e.g., Arndt et al., 2001; Dechesne et al., 2000).”
On defeating death: Group reification and social identification as immortality strategies (2005, methodology): “To examine this hypothesis, we made use of the season opener of the University of Arizona college football team (Dechesne et al., 2000a, Exp. 2).”
Why do people need self-esteem? A theoretical and empirical review. (2004, background): “…increase selfesteem (Nezlek et al., 1997; Sommer & Baumeister, 2002) and that people sometimes disidentify themselves from groups to protect self-esteem (e.g., Dechesne et al., 2000a) all seem to suggest that if self-esteem were a sociometer, it would be a very inefficiently calibrated one indeed.”