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Mortality salience effects fail to replicate in traditional and novel measures

2019-05-17

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<p>Mortality salience (MS) effects, where death reminders lead to ingroup-bias and defensive protection of one’s worldview, have been claimed to be a fundamental human motivator. MS phenomena have been supported by more than 400 studies within the “terror management theory” framework, but transparent and high-powered replications are lacking. We performed an Experiment 1 (N = 101 Norwegian lab participants) to rep...

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DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/dkg53

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