@article{ref1,
title="Methodological weakness of the death-word-fragment task: alternative implicit death anxiety measures",
journal="Death studies",
year="2022",
author="Naidu, Priyanka A. and Hine, Trevor J. and Glendon, A. Ian",
volume="46",
number="7",
pages="1706-1715",
abstract="The efficacy of different implicit death anxiety measures was examined. In Study 1 (N = 133), the death-word-fragment task (DWFT), commonly used to test death-thought accessibility in terror management theory (TMT) research, did not differentiate between mortality salience (MS) and control conditions. Instead, death-related word completions were associated with word dimensions other than MS induction. Study 2 (N = 155) tested three implicit measures (lexical-decision task, dot-probe task, ambiguous pictures task), which differentiated between conditions, revealing greater sensitivity than the DWFT. As TMT research widens its scope, investigating measures to capture implicit death concerns is important.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0748-1187",
doi="10.1080/07481187.2020.1846228",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2020.1846228"
}