Bad news: do reminders of mortality influence support for authoritarian attitudes and social policies?
Terror management theory predicts that when people are reminded of their own mortality (mortality salience), they cling more strongly to cultural worldviews which provide them with a sense of security (Greenberg et al., 1986). For some people, this reaction to mortality salience also involves deroga...
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1993/23715 |