Inhibition Underlies the Effect of High Need for Closure on Cultural Closed-Mindedness under Mortality Salience
The hypothesis that people respond to reminders of mortality with closed-minded, ethnocentric attitudes has received extensive empirical support, largely from research in the Terror Management theory tradition. However, the basic motivational and neural processes that underlie this effect remain lar...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2016-10-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Psychology |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01583/full |