a Department of Psychology , Texas Christian University , Fort Worth , Texas , USA.
b Department of Psychology , North Dakota State University , Fargo , North Dakota , USA.
Death Stud. 2017 Oct;41(9):585-591. doi: 10.1080/07481187.2017.1322644. Epub 2017 Apr 24.
According to terror management theory, individuals defend their cultural beliefs following mortality salience. The current research examined whether naturally occurring instances of death (i.e., Ebola) correspond to results found in laboratory studies. The results of two experiments demonstrated that participants experienced a greater accessibility of death-related thoughts in response to an Ebola prime during a regional outbreak. Study 2 also showed that increased mortality awareness following an Ebola manipulation was associated with greater worldview defense (i.e., religious fundamentalism). Together, these results suggest that reminders of death in the form of a disease threat operate similarly to a mortality salience manipulation.
根据死亡管理理论，个体在意识到死亡后会捍卫自己的文化信仰。本研究旨在探讨自然发生的死亡事件（如埃博拉病毒）是否与实验室研究结果相符。两项实验的结果表明，在区域性爆发期间，参与者在埃博拉病毒的影响下，对与死亡相关的想法更加敏感。研究二还表明，在埃博拉病毒的影响下，对死亡的认识增加与世界观的防御（即宗教原教旨主义）增强有关。综上所述，这些结果表明，疾病威胁等形式的死亡提醒与死亡突显的影响类似。
