@article{ref1,
title="To protect or to kill? Environmental contingent self-worth moderates death prime effects on animal-based attitudes",
journal="Personality and social psychology bulletin",
year="2023",
author="Fairlamb, Samuel and Stan, Andrada-Elena and Lovas, Katinka",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Lifshin et al. found that death primes increased support for killing animals, suggesting that the killing of animals serves a terror management function. The present research adds to this by suggesting that protecting animals can also serve a terror management function when people see such behaviors as culturally valuable. In three studies (N = 765), environmental contingent self-worth (ECSW) moderated the effect of death primes on attitudes toward animals. Attitudes toward animals also mediated the effect of a death prime on increased power-based invulnerability for those with low ECSW and decreased power-based invulnerability for those with high ECSW (Study 3). Finally, we found little support that death primes influenced beliefs regarding human-animal superiority (Study 1 and 2) or similarity (Study 2). Our findings therefore provide partial support for past terror management research and further the understanding regarding how to promote more benevolent human-animal relations.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0146-1672",
doi="10.1177/01461672231160652",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01461672231160652"
}