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Defending one’s worldviews under mortality salience – Testing the validity of an established idea

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In this paper, the authors conducted two preregistered lab studies applying the classic worldview defense paradigm and found that the expected interaction effects were not significant, while Bayesian analyses favored the null hypothesis.
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This article is published in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.The article was published on 2021-03-01. It has received 9 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Mortality salience & Terror management theory.

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Does Social Exclusion Improve Detection of Real and Fake Smiles? A Replication Study.

TL;DR: The authors showed that participants in the social exclusion condition were better in correctly categorizing a target person's smile as real or fake than in the control condition, but the performance did not differ between the exclusion and inclusion condition-although the pattern was in the predicted direction.
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Beyond doubt in a dangerous world: The effect of existential threats on the certitude of societal discourse

TL;DR: The authors investigated the association between existential threats and the certitude of societal discourse and found that exposure to life-threatening events will increase expressions of uncertainty and that people will respond to threats by utilizing psychological compensation mechanisms that will give rise to greater expressions of certainty.
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Do Salient Social Norms Moderate Mortality Salience Effects? A (Challenging) Meta-Analysis of Terror Management Studies

TL;DR: In this paper , a meta-analysis was conducted on studies that manipulated mortality salience and social norm salience to increase confidence in the idea that MS and norm saliency interact to influence behavior.
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Social-coalitional trait is related to coping capacity with mortality threat: association with leadership and a reduced parietal response to mortality salience

TL;DR: In this article , the authors explored correlations between the neural responses to mortality threat and the factor scores of the Power to Live questionnaire, which measures eight resilience-related psychobehavioral traits.
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Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences

TL;DR: The concepts of power analysis are discussed in this paper, where Chi-square Tests for Goodness of Fit and Contingency Tables, t-Test for Means, and Sign Test are used.
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Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect: The PANAS scales.

TL;DR: Two 10-item mood scales that comprise the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) are developed and are shown to be highly internally consistent, largely uncorrelated, and stable at appropriate levels over a 2-month time period.
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Statistical power analyses using G*Power 3.1: tests for correlation and regression analyses.

TL;DR: In the new version, procedures to analyze the power of tests based on single-sample tetrachoric correlations, comparisons of dependent correlations, bivariate linear regression, multiple linear regression based on the random predictor model, logistic regression, and Poisson regression are added.
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The WEIRDest People in the World

TL;DR: A review of the comparative database from across the behavioral sciences suggests both that there is substantial variability in experimental results across populations and that WEIRD subjects are particularly unusual compared with the rest of the species – frequent outliers.
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Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science

Alexander A. Aarts, +290 more
- 28 Aug 2015 - 
TL;DR: A large-scale assessment suggests that experimental reproducibility in psychology leaves a lot to be desired, and correlational tests suggest that replication success was better predicted by the strength of original evidence than by characteristics of the original and replication teams.
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