Whistling in the dark: exaggerated consensus estimates in response to incidental reminders of mortality

Article Abstract:

Incidental reminders of mortality-related stimuli increase the tendency of people to exaggerate social consensus estimates for culturally relevant attitudes. This increase in social consensus estimates is mainly evident in people holding minority views on an issue. The fact that similar others consensually validate one's worldviews, whereas dissimilar others threaten this view, mediates the influence of mortality salience.

Psychological aspects, Mortality, Consensus (Social sciences)

---

Subliminal exposure to death-related stimuli increases defense of the cultural worldview

Article Abstract:

Unconscious concerns relating to mortality motivate defense of an individual's culturally based belief system, according to terror management theory (TMT). Experiments are reported, providing support for such a hypothesis. The experiments included contrasted exposure to subliminal death-related stimuli, standard mortality-salience treatment and neutral subliminal stimuli.

Management, Observations, Fear, Subliminal perception

---

If attitudes affect how stimuli are processed, should they not affect the event-related brain potential?

Article Abstract:

A seriesof experiments is conducted to find out if attitudes can be differentiated by alate positive component of the event-related brain potentials (ERP), with each series having six attitude stimuli from a certain semantic classification. The tests verify the convergence of ERP data and self-report indices of attitudes and establish the validity of the ERP measures.

Brain stimulation

Similar abstracts:

• Abstracts: Need for cognition and response mode in the active construction of an information domain. What individual investors value: some Australian evidence
• Abstracts: The distinctiveness effect in the absence of conscious recollection: evidence from conceptual priming . Meaning's moderating effect on recollection rejection
• Abstracts: Progress in the technology of measurement: applications of item response models. What's new about evidence-based assessment?
• Abstracts: The Teddy Bears' Picnic: four-year-old children's personal constructs in relation to behavioural problems and to teacher global concern
• Abstracts: Surviving the care system: education and resilience. Identity status and empathic response patterns: a multidimensional investigation

This website is not affiliated with document authors or copyright owners. This page is provided for informational purposes only. Unintentional errors are possible.