Psychology, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 52900, Israel.
The Leslie and Susan Gonda (Goldschmied) Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 52900, Israel.
F1000Res. 2024 Jul 3;13:737. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.151742.1. eCollection 2024.
Climate change denial (CCD) has been found to be more pronounced among individuals with a conservative political orientation. Terror Management Theory posits that an individual's worldview serves as a primary defense mechanism in coping with existential threats, such as the reality of climate change. Drawing on these premises, we conducted preliminary research investigating the impact of death priming on CCD from the Terror management theory perspective.
We administered a death priming task and measured CCD in its immediate wake or following a delay task. We confirmed among 219 Amazon's MTurk participants that immediately following death priming, CCD was reduced among all participants. In the delayed death priming condition, we acquired preliminary evidence that CCD was heightened among Republican participants.
These findings demonstrate the relevance of death priming to CCD tendencies and potentially spawn future research regarding CCD as a particular form of coping with existential threats.
气候变化否认（CCD）在具有保守政治倾向的个体中更为明显。 恐怖管理理论认为，个体的世界观是应对生存威胁（如气候变化的现实）的主要防御机制。 根据这些前提，我们进行了初步研究，从恐怖管理理论的角度调查了死亡启动对 CCD 的影响。
我们进行了死亡启动任务，并在立即或延迟任务后测量了 CCD。我们在 219 名亚马逊 MTurk 参与者中证实，在死亡启动后，所有参与者的 CCD 都降低了。在延迟的死亡启动条件下，我们初步发现，共和党参与者的 CCD 升高。
这些发现表明死亡启动与 CCD 倾向的相关性，并可能引发关于 CCD 作为应对生存威胁的特定形式的未来研究。
