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Title: | FACING DEATH TOGETHER: ENGAGING IN MORTALITY SALIENCE WITH OTHERS BUFFERS DEATH ANXIETY | Authors: | TAN YIA CHIN | Keywords: | terror management, mortality salience, death anxiety, pre-emptive buffer, shared attention, affiliation, symbolic immortality | Issue Date: | 30-Jul-2018 | Citation: | TAN YIA CHIN (2018-07-30). FACING DEATH TOGETHER: ENGAGING IN MORTALITY SALIENCE WITH OTHERS BUFFERS DEATH ANXIETY. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. | Abstract: | Awareness of mortality is often a shared experience in real life. Past research on the Terror Management Theory has, however, focused on examining mortality salience only as a solitary experience. In this thesis, we examined the effect of contemplating death with social others on individuals’ distal defenses against death anxiety. Two competing hypotheses are considered. The threat alleviation hypothesis posits that shared mortality salience would reduce distal defenses, whereas the emotion intensification hypothesis posits that distal defenses would be intensified. Study 1 failed to support either hypothesis, whereas Studies 2 and 3 supported the threat alleviation hypothesis. While individuals exhibited distal defenses in the form of increased desire for offsprings (Studies 2 and 3) and heightened intolerance to cultural contamination (Study 3) when contemplating death alone, these effects disappeared when they believed that they were contemplating death together with social others. Theoretical and practical implications for the findings are discussed. | URI: | http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/151176 |
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