SSEH2270 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Mortality Salience, Terror Management Theory
4 Dec 2020
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Sseh2270: self esteem in terror management theory (tmt) By living up to the standards of an accepted cultural worldview. An individual attains a hope of literal and/or symbolic immortality. Lots of research has also indicated that self-esteem helps to buffer against self-reported anxiety, physiological arousal, and anxiety-related defensiveness. Terror management and the vicissitudes of sports fan affiliation: The effects of mortality salience on optimism and fan identification". Description of emotion and thoughts that death arouses. Questions about watching television rather than about death. Then all participants asked to report their score prediction for the upcoming soccer game between holland and germany. Participants in death prime group expected more goals for their own team. Greater likelihood of predicting a win if they were previously asked to think about death. Start of college season for university of arizona football team. Mortality salience as per group in experiment 1.
