Terror management and political attitudes: the influence of mortality salience on Germans' defence of the German reunification

Terror management and the vicissitudes o

Terror management and the vicissitudes of sports fan affiliation: the effects of mortality salience on optimism and fan identification

✍ Mark Dechesne; Jeff Greenberg; Jamie Arndt; Jeff Schimel 📂 Article 📅 2000 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 184 KB 👁 1 views

The present research examined the hypothesis derived from terror management theory that identi®cations with sports teams shield against the potential consequences of awareness of death. Experiment 1 demonstrated that Dutch participants who were reminded of their death expressed greater optimism abou