Are we truly special and unique? A replication of Goldenberg et al. (2001)
Entity
UAM. Departamento de Psicología BásicaPublisher
Royal SocietyDate
2019Citation
10.1098/rsos.191114
Royal Society Open Science 6 (2019): 191114
ISSN
2054-5703DOI
10.1098/rsos.191114Funded by
J.R.-F., I.B. and M.A.V. were supported by grant nos. PSI2016-80061-R (AEI/FEDER UE), PSI2016-75776-R (AEI/FEDER UE) and PSI2017-85159-P (AEI/FEDER UE), respectively. M.A.V. was also supported by grant no. 2016-T1/SOC-1395 (Comunidad de Madrid; Programa de Atracción de Talento Investigador).Project
Gobierno de España. PSI2017-85159-P; Comunidad de Madrid. 2016-T1/SOC-1395Editor's Version
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.191114Subjects
Terror management theory; Mortality salience; Meta-analysis; Replication; Publication bias; PsicologíaRights
© 2019 The Authors.Abstract
According to the mortality salience hypothesis of terror
management theory, reminders of our future death increase the
necessity to validate our cultural worldview and to enhance
our self-esteem. In Experiment 2 of the study ‘I am not an
animal: Mortality salience, disgust, and the denial of human
creatureliness’, Goldenberg et al. (Goldenberg et al. 2001 J. Exp.
Psychol. Gen. 130, 427–435. (doi:10.1037/0096-3445.130.3.427))
observed that participants primed with questions about their
death provided more positive evaluations to an essay
describing humans as distinct from animals than control
participants presented with questions regarding another
aversive situation. In a replication of this experiment
conducted with 128 volunteers, we did not observe evidence
for a mortality salience effect.
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Google Scholar:Rodríguez-Ferreiro, Javier
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Barberia, Itxaso
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González-Guerra, Jordi
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Vadillo, Miguel A.
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