@article{ref1,
title="Memories of a death threat: negative consequences of unconscious thoughts about a terrorist attack on attitudes towards alcohol",
journal="OMEGA - Journal of death and dying",
year="2020",
author="Pradel, Franziska and Sattler, Sebastian",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Based on the terror management health model (TMHM), we examined the impact of terrorist attacks as reminders of death on implicit alcohol-related attitudes,  including the moderating role of conscious death-related thoughts and alcohol-based  self-esteem (ABS). With an online experiment (N = 487), we analyzed how thoughts and  memories about a recent terrorist attack unconsciously (with a delay task) and  consciously (without a delay task) affected implicit alcohol-related attitudes. We  found that such thoughts increased the death-thought accessibility. While no main  effect of the salience of the terrorist attack on alcohol-related attitudes existed,  respondents with low ABS had more positive attitudes, when unconsciously thinking  about the attack as compared to the control group. Respondents with high ABS in the  delay task had lower alcohol-IAT scores. Overall, this study provides evidence that  thoughts about terrorism that can be provoked through media affect alcohol-related  attitudes. Such attitudes may cause negative health consequences through  health-related decisions.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0030-2228",
doi="10.1177/0030222820984935",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0030222820984935"
}