Citation

Florian V, Mikulincer M. J. Pers. Soc. Psychol. 1997; 73(2): 369-380.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel. floriav@ashur.cc.biu.ac.il

Copyright

(Copyright © 1997, American Psychological Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9248054

Abstract

The purpose of the research was to integrate a multidimensional approach to fear of personal death with terror management theory. In Study 1, 190 students were divided according to the manipulation of death salience and the intrapersonal and interpersonal aspects of fear of death and were asked to judge transgressions that have either intrapersonal or interpersonal consequences. Study 2 was a conceptual replication of Study 1, with the exception that the manipulation of mortality salience included conditions that made salient either intrapersonal or interpersonal aspects of death. Findings indicate that the effects of mortality salience depend on the aspect of death that is made salient, the aspect of death that individuals most fear, and the type of the judged transgression. More severe judgments of transgressions after death salience manipulation were found mainly when there was a fit between these 3 factors. Findings are discussed in light of terror management theory.

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