“…Increases in death-thought accessibility have been documented in response to thoughts regarding separation from a loved one or the break-up of an important romantic relationship (Mikulincer et al, 2003), negative interactions with attachment figures , threats to justice, in which bad things happen to good rather than bad people (Hirschberger, Florian, & Mikulincer, 2005;Landau et al, 2004), the physical aspects of sex when not associated with love (Goldenberg, Pyszczynski, McCoy, Greenberg, & Solomon, 1999), doing a breast self-examination on a breast model (Goldenberg, Arndt, Routledge, & Hart, 2006), viewing pictures of or simply answering questions about disgust-eliciting stimuli (Cox, Goldenberg, Pyszczynski, et al, in press), and thinking about breast-feeding in public (Cox, Goldenberg, Arndt, et al, 2007). More recently, Schimel, Hayes, Williams, and Jahrig (in press) have shown that (a) threats to the Canadian worldview increase death-thought accessibility among Canadians, and proevolution arguments increase death thought accessibility among creationists on both wordstem completion and lexical decision measures; (b) these effects are eliminated when the threat can be easily dismissed; (c) these increases in death-thought accessibility were independent of the arousal of both anxiety and anger; and (d) these increases did not extend to increases in the accessibility of other negative and neutral words.…”