Arndt Jamie, Greenberg Jeff, Cook Alison
J Exp Psychol Gen. 2002 Sep;131(3):307-24. doi: 10.1037//0096-3445.131.3.307.
Seven experiments assessed the hypothesis derived from terror management theory that reminding people of their mortality would increase accessibility of constructs central to their worldview. Experiment 1 found that mortality primes, relative to control primes, increased accessibility of nationalistic constructs for men but not for women. Experiment 2 replicated this finding and also found that mortality salience increased romantic accessibility for women but not for men. Four subsequent experiments supported the role of unconscious death-related ideation in producing these effects. A final experiment demonstrated that situational primes can increase the accessibility of nationalistic constructs for women after mortality salience. The roles of situational cues and individual differences in the effects of exposure to death-related stimuli on worldview-relevant construct accessibility are discussed.
七项实验对源自恐惧管理理论的假设进行了评估，该假设认为，提醒人们意识到自己终有一死会增加其世界观核心概念的可及性。实验1发现，与对照启动相比，死亡启动增加了男性对民族主义概念的可及性，但对女性没有影响。实验2重复了这一发现，还发现死亡凸显增加了女性对浪漫概念的可及性，但对男性没有影响。随后的四项实验支持了无意识的死亡相关思维在产生这些影响中的作用。最后一项实验表明，情境启动可以在死亡凸显后增加女性对民族主义概念的可及性。本文讨论了情境线索和个体差异在接触与死亡相关刺激对世界观相关概念可及性影响中的作用。
