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Terror management theory and self-esteem revisited: the roles of implicit and explicit self-esteem in mortality salience effects.
Brandon J. Schmeichel,Matthew T. Gailliot,Emily-Ana Filardo,Ian McGregor,Seth A. Gitter,Roy F. Baumeister +5 more
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Findings indicate that high implicit self-esteem confers resilience against the psychological threat of death, and therefore the findings provide direct support for a fundamental tenet of terror management theory regarding the anxiety-buffering role of self- esteem.Abstract:
Three studies tested the roles of implicit and/or explicit self-esteem in reactions to mortality salience. In Study 1, writing about death versus a control topic increased worldview defense among participants low in implicit self-esteem but not among those high in implicit self-esteem. In Study 2, a manipulation to boost implicit self-esteem reduced the effect of mortality salience on worldview defense. In Study 3, mortality salience increased the endorsement of positive personality descriptions but only among participants with the combination of low implicit and high explicit self-esteem. These findings indicate that high implicit self-esteem confers resilience against the psychological threat of death, and therefore the findings provide direct support for a fundamental tenet of terror management theory regarding the anxiety-buffering role of self-esteem.read more
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Two Decades of Terror Management Theory: A Meta-Analysis of Mortality Salience Research:
TL;DR: A meta-analysis was conducted on empirical trials investigating the mortality salience (MS) hypothesis of terror management theory, finding moderate effects on a range of worldview- and self-esteem-related dependent variables (DVs).
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Threat and defense: From anxiety to approach
Eva Jonas,Ian McGregor,Johannes Klackl,Dmitrij Agroskin,Immo Fritsche,Colin Holbrook,Kyle Nash,Travis Proulx,Markus Quirin +8 more
TL;DR: This article proposed a taxonomy of variation and a common motivational process underlying people's reactions to threats, and found that there are common motivational processes that underlie the similar reactions to all of these diverse kinds of threats.
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A theoretical and empirical review of the death-thought accessibility concept in terror management research.
TL;DR: The authors outline the theoretical refinements to TMT that have accompanied significant research findings associated with the DTA concept and four distinct categories (mortality salience, death association, anxiety-buffer threat, and dispositional) are derived to organize the reviewed DTA studies.
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Implicit self-esteem: nature, measurement, and a new way forward.
TL;DR: The construct validity of the 2 most common measures of implicit self-esteem, the Implicit Association Test (IAT) and Name-Letter Test (NLT) are evaluated and it is concluded that both tests are impoverished measures of self- esteem that are better understood as measures of either generalized implicit affect or implicit egotism.
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