Fighting death with death: the buffering effects of learning that worldview violators have died |
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Authors: | Hayes Joseph Schimel Jeff Williams Todd J |
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Institution: | Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. jhayes@ualberta.ca |
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Abstract: | According to terror management theory, the annihilation of people who threaten one's worldview should serve the function of defending that worldview. The present research assessed this hypothesis. A sample of Christian participants read either a worldview-threatening news article reporting on the Muslimization of Nazareth or a nonthreatening article about the aurora borealis. Half of the participants in the worldview-threat condition were informed at the end of the article that a number of Muslims had died in a plane crash on their way to Nazareth. Although reading the threatening news article increased death-thought accessibility and worldview defense relative to reading the neutral article, these increases were not observed among participants who learned that a number of Muslims were dead. Implications for understanding protracted intergroup conflict are discussed. |
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