TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2023//
TI  - To protect or to kill? Environmental contingent self-worth moderates death prime effects on animal-based attitudes
JO  - Personality and social psychology bulletin
A1  - Fairlamb, Samuel
A1  - Stan, Andrada-Elena
A1  - Lovas, Katinka
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0146-1672
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01461672231160652
ID  - ref1
ER  -