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Article: Diverging effects of mortality salience on variety seeking: The different roles of death anxiety and semantic concept activation
Title | Diverging effects of mortality salience on variety seeking: The different roles of death anxiety and semantic concept activation |
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Keywords | Semantic priming Death anxiety Mortality salience Processing style Variety seeking |
Issue Date | 2015 |
Citation | Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2015, v. 58, p. 112-123 How to Cite? |
Abstract | © 2015 Elsevier Inc.Thoughts about one's death can not only induce death anxiety but also activate death-related semantic concepts. These effects of mortality salience have different implications for judgments and behavior. We demonstrate these differences in an investigation of variety-seeking behavior. Four experiments showed that the anxiety elicited by thinking about one's own death decreased the variety of participants' choices in an unrelated multiple-choice decision situation, whereas activating semantic concepts of death without inducing anxiety increased it. Moreover, inducing cognitive load decreased the anxiety-inducing effect of mortality salience, leading its concept-activation effect to predominate. The accessibility of death-related semantic concepts spontaneously induces a global processing style that increases the range of acceptable choice alternatives in a variety-seeking task, and this occurs regardless of how mortality salience is induced. However, the effect of inducing death anxiety, which is driven by a desire for stability, may override the effect of semantic concept activation when participants think about their own death. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/238122 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 3.2 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.841 |
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dc.contributor.author | Huang, Zhongqiang(Tak) | - |
dc.contributor.author | Wyer, Robert S. | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-02-03T02:13:07Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2017-02-03T02:13:07Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2015, v. 58, p. 112-123 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0022-1031 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/238122 | - |
dc.description.abstract | © 2015 Elsevier Inc.Thoughts about one's death can not only induce death anxiety but also activate death-related semantic concepts. These effects of mortality salience have different implications for judgments and behavior. We demonstrate these differences in an investigation of variety-seeking behavior. Four experiments showed that the anxiety elicited by thinking about one's own death decreased the variety of participants' choices in an unrelated multiple-choice decision situation, whereas activating semantic concepts of death without inducing anxiety increased it. Moreover, inducing cognitive load decreased the anxiety-inducing effect of mortality salience, leading its concept-activation effect to predominate. The accessibility of death-related semantic concepts spontaneously induces a global processing style that increases the range of acceptable choice alternatives in a variety-seeking task, and this occurs regardless of how mortality salience is induced. However, the effect of inducing death anxiety, which is driven by a desire for stability, may override the effect of semantic concept activation when participants think about their own death. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of Experimental Social Psychology | - |
dc.subject | Semantic priming | - |
dc.subject | Death anxiety | - |
dc.subject | Mortality salience | - |
dc.subject | Processing style | - |
dc.subject | Variety seeking | - |
dc.title | Diverging effects of mortality salience on variety seeking: The different roles of death anxiety and semantic concept activation | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.jesp.2015.01.008 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84922117745 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 58 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 112 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 123 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1096-0465 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000352251800013 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0022-1031 | - |