@article{ref1,
title="Culture and its neurofunctional correlates when death is in mind",
journal="Neuroscience letters",
year="2013",
author="Graupmann, Verena and Peres, Isabella and Michaely, Tonia and Meindl, Thomas and Frey, Dieter and Reiser, Maximilian and Pöppel, Ernst and Fehse, Kai and Gutyrchik, Evgeny",
volume="548",
number="",
pages="239-243",
abstract="The human fear of death is marked by specific psychological reactions that affirm cultural belonging. Terror management theory explains this phenomenon with the symbolic immortality provided by collective meaning in culture. This coping has also been explained with the motive of maintaining a meaningful representation of the world. Here we show that neural patterns of activations corresponding to cultural worldview defense processes differed when images that affirmed participants' cultural heritage were preceded by death-related verbal primes versus verbal primes threatening meaning. Cultural content was drawn upon distinctly on a neural basis when facing death-related cognitions. The neural representation of cultural coping sheds light on the immediate mechanisms in compensating the human fear of death.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0304-3940",
doi="10.1016/j.neulet.2013.05.062",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2013.05.062"
}