Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, UK.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2024 Sep;50(9):1315-1331. doi: 10.1177/01461672231160652. Epub 2023 Mar 21.
Lifshin et al. found that death primes increased support for killing animals, suggesting that the killing of animals serves a terror management function. The present research adds to this by suggesting that protecting animals can also serve a terror management function when people see such behaviors as culturally valuable. In three studies ( = 765), environmental contingent self-worth (ECSW) moderated the effect of death primes on attitudes toward animals. Attitudes toward animals also mediated the effect of a death prime on increased power-based invulnerability for those with low ECSW and decreased power-based invulnerability for those with high ECSW (Study 3). Finally, we found little support that death primes influenced beliefs regarding human-animal superiority (Study 1 and 2) or similarity (Study 2). Our findings therefore provide partial support for past terror management research and further the understanding regarding how to promote more benevolent human-animal relations.
利夫申等人发现，死亡凸显会增加人们对杀戮动物的支持，这表明杀戮动物具有一种恐惧管理功能。本研究通过以下方式进一步证明，当人们认为某些行为具有文化价值时，保护动物也可以起到恐惧管理的作用。在三项研究中（n=765），环境条件性自我价值感（ECSW）调节了死亡凸显对动物态度的影响。动物态度也调节了死亡凸显对低 ECSW 人群增强基于权力的免疫和对高 ECSW 人群降低基于权力的免疫的影响（研究 3）。最后，我们几乎没有发现死亡凸显会影响关于人类与动物优越性（研究 1 和 2）或相似性（研究 2）的信念的证据。因此，我们的研究结果部分支持了过去的恐惧管理研究，并进一步了解了如何促进更仁慈的人类与动物关系。
