@article{ref1,
title="Fighting death with death: the buffering effects of learning that worldview violators have died",
journal="Psychological science",
year="2008",
author="Hayes, Joseph and Schimel, Jeff and Williams, Todd J.",
volume="19",
number="5",
pages="501-507",
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.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0956-7976",
doi="10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02115.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02115.x"
}