Death Goes to the Polls: A Meta-Analysis of Mortality Salience Effects on Political Attitudes*

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Changes in Personal Values in Pandemic Times (2021, background): “Increased mortality salience is likely to increase defense of one’s cultural worldview (Burke et al., 2013), thereby decreasing the universalism aspect of self-transcendence.”
Ideological Asymmetries and the Essence of Political Psychology (2017, methodology): “These databases are much, much larger than those used in previous meta-analyses by Burke, Kosloff, and Landau (2013), Jost et al. (2003), Onraet et al. (2013), and Van Hiel et al. (2010).”
The Politics of Fear: Is There an Ideological Asymmetry in Existential Motivation? (2017, methodology): “A narrative review by Hibbing et al. (2014) reached a similar conclusion, as did quantitative reviews by Onraet et al. (2013) and Burke et al. (2013).”
Terror Management Theory and the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020, background): “A meta-analytic review of this literature concluded that there is evidence for both tendencies, with the evidence being somewhat stronger for polarization (Burke et al., 2013).”