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Fritsche, Immo; Hoppe, Annedore

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“…Not only does death anxiety result in negative attitudes toward dissimilar others, but it can also result in negative attitudes toward nature (for a review, see Fritsche & Hoppe, 2019). For example, Koole and Van den Berg (2005; Study 2) found that participants decreased their positive evaluations of natural landscapes when reminded of mortality.…”

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Testing the differential effects of death anxiety and death reflection on proenvironmental outcomes.

Guerriero¹,

Swim²

2022

Translational Issues in Psychological Science

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Building on previous research in existential psychology, we tested whether inducing death anxiety and death reflection differentially inhibit or inspire proenvironmental outcomes, respectively (Hypothesis 1). The outcomes we examined were of biospheric concern, intention to engage in environmental activism, support for population growth mitigation policies, and support for reducing carbon dioxide emissions. We also hypothesized that these differential effects would be more evident for those with less versus more environmentalist contingent self-worth (Hypothesis 2). In an experimental online study (N = 280), neither death anxiety nor death reflection affected proenvironmental outcomes. We only found a marginally significant positive effect of death reflection vs. the control condition on biospheric concern and a marginally significant interaction suggesting death reflection might increase biospheric concern compared to death anxiety among those weak in environmentalist contingent self-worth. Overall, the notion that mortality reminders affect proenvironmental outcomes was unsupported.What is the significance of this article for the general public?Despite plausibility based on extant theory in existential psychology and prior findings on the effect of mortality reminders on proenvironmental outcomes, we did not find evidence that experiences of death anxiety or death reflection have a meaningful impact on proenvironmental outcomes. Although we detected the possibility of a small positive effect of death reflection on biospheric concern, especially for those with less environmentalist contingent self-worth, mortality reminders did not affect activism intention, support for population growth mitigation policies, or support for reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

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Section: Death Anxietymentioning

confidence: 99%

Testing the differential effects of death anxiety and death reflection on proenvironmental outcomes.

Guerriero¹,

Swim²

2022

Translational Issues in Psychological Science

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“…Kinship terminology in Albanian, likein other Balkan languages 11 , is rich in specific terms to define in a precise manner of the type of family relationship in the male, as well as in the female line. An interesting example in our text is the term baxhanak "the sister's husband": KS I, I, II, 69, 22: Burrat e motrave në mes tyne quhen baxhanakë.…”

Section: Women In Their Birth Familymentioning

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The Roles of Women in the Lexicon of the Albanian “Code of Skanderbeg” (Kanuni I Skanderbegut)

Genesin

2020

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

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A lexical analysis of the so-called Kanuni i Skanderbegut, an Albanian collection of customary laws, provides an insight to understand women’s social role in traditional communities living in the northern area of Albania. In the use of specific terminology one can notice a clear separation between the two sexes which is reflected in the distribution of roles and in using a structured terminology that designates not only roles and conditions, but also other aspects of social life.

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“…They occur both at a personal level and in large‐scale events that involve collective experiences such as man‐made and natural disasters or contagions such as the current pandemic crisis (Pyszczynski et al, 2020 ). In general, TMT assumes that the awareness of disasters or threatening large‐scale events increase death anxiety (Fritsche & Hoppe, 2019 ). In the case of natural disasters, TMT has provided empirical evidence of attitude changes, for instance, effects on people's attitudes towards their own body via a disgust towards body products (Goldenberg et al, 2001 ) or less positive attitudes toward breastfeeding (Cox et al, 2007 ).…”

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“…In the case of natural disasters, TMT has provided empirical evidence of attitude changes, for instance, effects on people's attitudes towards their own body via a disgust towards body products (Goldenberg et al, 2001 ) or less positive attitudes toward breastfeeding (Cox et al, 2007 ). This distance from the corporeal and human's animal nature is considered as an adaptive tendency to control existential anxiety (Fritsche & Hoppe, 2019 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, when the conditions of uncertainty increased in people without this trait, the same increase was observed in the tendency to discriminate against others. It is important to pinpoint that uncertainty (as well as lack of control) has been proposed to be intimately related to existential threat elicited by the awareness of inevitable personal death (Fritsche & Hoppe, 2019 ). Moreover, Echebarria‐Echabe ( 2013 ) has also experimentally analyzed this debate between the effects of mortality salience and uncertainty, finding that, although they are not exactly the same, both conditions generate high levels of anxiety and rejection towards those who present a different vision or belong to another group.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Social capital in Mexico moderates the relationship of uncertainty and cooperation during the SARS‐COV‐2 pandemic

Torres

Campo‐Ríos

2021

Journal Community Psychology

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This study proposes that, given the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, its sanitary restrictions, and the associated economic effects, citizens perceive higher uncertainty and tend to reduce their willingness to cooperate with others. Community social capital refers to a set of norms of reciprocity, trust, and civic engagement networks that promote trust, reciprocal help, and cooperation for mutual benefits. It is also suggested that it can help alleviate negative effects of the pandemic in communities, by reducing uncertainty and its harmful effects on cooperation. These hypotheses were tested in a sample of 565 inhabitants of Mexico, who answered an online survey with measurements of social capital, uncertainty, and willingness to cooperate in the face of the pandemic. The relationships between variables were analyzed in two structural equation models, which show adequate goodness of fit, where higher levels of uncertainty generated by the pandemic were associated with a greater disposition to noncooperation with others, while social capital moderated this relation decreasing negative effects of uncertainty on noncooperation. The value of social capital is discussed as a resource worth preserving and promoting in communities to strengthen them, so that they are better able to face health or economic contingencies.

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We Supernaturals

Cited by 9 publications

References 67 publications

Testing the differential effects of death anxiety and death reflection on proenvironmental outcomes.

Testing the differential effects of death anxiety and death reflection on proenvironmental outcomes.

The Roles of Women in the Lexicon of the Albanian “Code of Skanderbeg” (Kanuni I Skanderbegut)

Social capital in Mexico moderates the relationship of uncertainty and cooperation during the SARS‐COV‐2 pandemic

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