The Effects of A Self-Esteem Boost and Mortality Salience on Responses to Boost Relevant and Irrelevant Worldview Threats  

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Arndt, Jamie ; Greenberg, Jeff

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (http://journals.sagepub.com/home/pspc) vol. 25 no. 11 (1999), page 1331-1341.
Topik: MORTALITY; irrelevant worldview threats; boost relevant; self - esteem boost; mortality salience
Fulltext: 1331PSPB2511.pdf (98.08KB)

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Previous research found that rasising self - esteem attenuated mortality salience effects on reactions to cultural worldview threats. The present study assessed whether raising self - esteem attenuates such effects when a target specifically threatened the dimension on which the boost was predicated. Participants : (a) received positive personality feedback emphasizing likelihood of success either in their major or a different domain or neutral feedback, (b) contemplated their mortality or a control topic, and (c) evaluated targets threatening beliefs about the United States and the participant’s major. Replicating earlier findings, after mortality salience, neutral feedback participants derogated the anti - U. S. target, whereas positive feedback participants did not. However, if the feedback mentioned participants’ major, mortality salience led to derogation of the anti - major target, even if the feedback was positive. These findings indicate that when a target threatens a dimension on which a self - esteem boost is predicated, such a boost will not deter derogation following mortality salience.

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