TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2013//
TI  - Culture and its neurofunctional correlates when death is in mind
JO  - Neuroscience letters
A1  - Graupmann, Verena
A1  - Peres, Isabella
A1  - Michaely, Tonia
A1  - Meindl, Thomas
A1  - Frey, Dieter
A1  - Reiser, Maximilian
A1  - Pöppel, Ernst
A1  - Fehse, Kai
A1  - Gutyrchik, Evgeny
SP  - 239
EP  - 243
VL  - 548
IS  - 
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0304-3940
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2013.05.062
ID  - ref1
ER  -