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Robert A. Wicklund
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Robert A. Wicklund is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Terror management theory & Mortality salience. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 209 citations.
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Whistling in the Dark: Exaggerated Consensus Estimates in Response to Incidental Reminders of Mortality
Tom Pyszczynski,Robert A. Wicklund,Stefan Floresku,Holgar Koch,Gerardine Gauch,Sheldon Solomon,Jeff Greenberg +6 more
TL;DR: This paper found that incidental reminders of one's mortality increase the need to believe that others share one's worldview and that cultural worldviews function to provide protection against anxiety concerning human vulnerability and mortality and that their effectiveness as buffers against such anxiety is maintained through a process of consensual validation.