@article{ref1,
title="Interdependent self-construals mitigate the fear of death and augment the willingness to become a martyr",
journal="Journal of personality and social psychology",
year="2014",
author="Orehek, Edward and Sasota, Jo A. and Kruglanski, Arie W. and Dechesne, Mark and Ridgeway, Leianna",
volume="107",
number="2",
pages="265-275",
abstract="Humans are motivated by a quest for significance that is threatened by the inevitability of death. However, individuals with interdependent self-construals, self-representations that reflect embeddedness with and connection to others, are able to extend themselves through time and space through their linkage to a larger social group. The present set of 5 experiments tested the hypotheses that individuals primed with an interdependent self-construal would fear death less and would be more willing to face harm for the sake of the group than individuals with an independent self-construal, that is, self-representations that reflect autonomy and independence from others (&quot;I have self-control&quot;). The results show that interdependent self-construals, compared to independent self-construals, attenuate death anxiety, reduce the avoidance of death, increase the approach to death-related stimuli, induce a greater willingness to become a martyr, and induce a greater willingness to sacrifice the self for other members of important groups. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved).<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-3514",
doi="10.1037/a0036675",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0036675"
}