University of Kassel, Germany.
Illinois State University, Normal, USA.
Pers Soc Psychol Rev. 2023 May;27(2):195-225. doi: 10.1177/10888683221107267. Epub 2022 Aug 11.
Terror management theory postulates that mortality salience (MS) increases the motivation to defend one's cultural worldviews. How that motivation is expressed may depend on the social norm that is momentarily salient. Meta-analyses were conducted on studies that manipulated MS and social norm salience. Results based on 64 effect sizes for the hypothesized interaction between MS and norm salience revealed a small-to-medium effect of = 0.34, 95% confidence interval [0.26, 0.41]. Bias-adjustment techniques suggested the presence of publication bias and/or the exploitation of researcher degrees of freedom and arrived at smaller effect size estimates for the hypothesized interaction, in several cases reducing the effect to nonsignificance (range = -0.36 to 0.15). To increase confidence in the idea that MS and norm salience interact to influence behavior, preregistered, high-powered experiments using validated norm salience manipulations are necessary. Concomitantly, more specific theorizing is needed to identify reliable boundary conditions of the effect.
死亡凸显理论假设，死亡凸显会增加人们捍卫自身文化世界观的动机。这种动机的表达可能取决于当前凸显的社会规范。对操纵死亡凸显和社会规范凸显的研究进行了元分析。基于假设的死亡凸显和规范凸显之间相互作用的 64 个效应量的结果表明，效应大小为 = 0.34，95%置信区间 [0.26, 0.41]。偏差调整技术表明存在发表偏差和/或研究人员自由度的利用，并且对假设的相互作用的效应大小估计较小，在某些情况下，将效应降低到无显著性（范围 = -0.36 至 0.15）。为了提高人们对死亡凸显和规范凸显相互作用影响行为的观念的信心，有必要使用经过验证的规范凸显操纵进行预先注册的、高功效的实验。同时，需要更具体的理论化来确定该效果的可靠边界条件。
