TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - The impact of death awareness on sizes of self-representational objects
JO  - British journal of social psychology
A1  - McCabe, Simon
A1  - Vail, Kenneth E.
A1  - Arndt, Jamie
SP  - 174
EP  - 188
VL  - 57
IS  - 1
N2  - People seem to have a tendency to increase the relative size of self-representational objects. Prior research suggests that motivational factors may fuel that tendency, so the present research built from terror management theory to examine whether existential motivations - engendered by concerns about death - may have similar implications for self-relevant size biases. Specifically, across two studies (total N = 288), we hypothesized that reminders of death would lead participants to inflate the size of self-representational objects. Both studies suggested that relative to reminders of pain, mortality salience led participants to construct larger clay sculptures of themselves (vs. others; Study 1) and a larger ostensible video game avatar for the self (vs. others; Study 2).<br><br>© 2017 The British Psychological Society.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0144-6665
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12227
ID  - ref1
ER  -