Ideology, Fear of Death, and Death Anxiety
By Emanuele Castano, Bernhard Leidner, Alain Bonacossa, J. Nikkah, Rachel Perrulli, Bettina Spencer, N. Humphrey. 2011
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Ideological beliefs have long attracted the attention of social psychologists, who have investigated their genesis as well as their influence on a host of social phenomena. Conservatism, from the Motivated Social Cognition framework, stems from epistemic and existential needs of the individual, and notably the fear of death. However, Terror Management Theory proposes a view of conservatism and its contrary, liberalism, as equivalent cultural worldviews, equally fit to fulfill such needs. In the present contribution, results are presented from five studies, which test the contrasting hypotheses derived from these two perspectives. A new perspective is considered that accounts for these and previous findings.
Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Death Goes to the Polls: A Meta-Analysis of Mortality Salience Effects on Political Attitudes* (2013, background): “In three other studies, MS led liberals, but not conservatives, to become less authoritarian and less favorable toward conservative views such as creationism and conservative policies regarding welfare, abortion, and the pledge of allegiance (Castano et al., 2011; Nikkah, 2008).”
- The Politics of Fear: Is There an Ideological Asymmetry in Existential Motivation? (2017, methodology): “Likewise, if a given study contained three measures of political ideology that included ideological self-placement, the authors selected the measure of ideological self-placement and dropped the other two.”