Mother's Milk : An Existential Perspective on Negative Reactions to Breast-Feeding  

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Cox, Cathy R. ; Goldenberg, Jamie L. ; Arndt, Jamie ; Pyszczynski, Tom

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (http://journals.sagepub.com/home/pspc) vol. 33 no. 01 (2007), page 110-122.
Topik: terror management; terror management theory; death anxiety; breast - feeding; evaluation of women; evaluation of the body
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Drawing from an existential perspective rooted in terror management theory, four studies examined the hypothesis that breast - feeding women serve as reminders of the physical, animal nature of humanity and that such recognition is threatening in the face of one's unalterable mortality. Study 1 demonstrated that mortality salience (MS) led to more negative reactions toward a scenario depicting a woman breast - feeding her infant in public, and in Study 2, MS decreased liking and increased physical avoidance of a potential task partner described as breast - feeding in another room. Further supporting the hypothesis that such reactions are rooted in threats associated with human creatureliness, MS in conjunction with a breast - feeding prime led to an increase in the accessibility of creaturely related cognitions (Study 3) and priming human / animal similarities (i. e., creatureliness) led to increased negativity toward a magazine cover depicting a woman breast - feeding her child (Study 4). Implications of this research are discussed.

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