@article{ref1,
title="Of Trophies and Pillars: Exploring the Terror Management Functions of Short-Term and Long-Term Relationship Partners",
journal="Personality and social psychology bulletin",
year="2010",
author="Kosloff, Spee and Greenberg, Jeff and Sullivan, Daniel and Weise, David",
volume="36",
number="8",
pages="1037-1051",
abstract="Prior terror management research shows that mortality salience (MS) motivates both self-esteem striving and worldview bolstering. The present research examined these processes in the context of dating preferences. It was hypothesized that in short-term romantic contexts, MS-induced self-esteem striving motivates interest in dating a physically attractive other, whereas in long-term romantic contexts, MS-induced motives for worldview validation heighten interest in dating a same-religion other. Study 1 showed that in a short-term dating context, MS increased preference for an attractive but religiously dissimilar person, whereas in a long-term dating context, MS increased preference for a religiously similar, less attractive person. Study 2 clarified that MS motivates preference for attractive short-term partners for their self-enhancing properties rather than their potential sexual availability. Study 3 supported the theorized processes, showing that under MS, self-esteem-relevant constructs became spontaneously accessible in short-term dating contexts, whereas worldview-relevant constructs became spontaneously accessible in long-term dating contexts.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0146-1672",
doi="10.1177/0146167210374602",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167210374602"
}