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- ItemDeath, Isolation, and Culture: Testing the Validities of Terror Management Theory and Coalitional Psychology(2006) Ing, Jennifer; Le, Benjamin; Sternberg, WendyTwo empirical studies attempted 1) to compare the validities of terror management theory and coalitional psychology, 2) to extend past research on cultural influences on cognition, and 3) to examine the effects of mortality and social isolation salience on cognition. Experiment 1 examined the effects of cultural (collectivism or individualism) priming and salience (mortality, social isolation, or neutral) priming on performance on a field-dependence task and a causal attribution task. The results revealed no significant effects for the field-dependence task but a significant cultural priming effect on the attribution task. Experiment 2 examined the effects of cultural priming and salience priming on mortality, social isolation, or fear-thought accessibility as measured through a word completion task. The only significant effect that emerged was one of salience priming in which the neutral salience condition showed a greater accessibility for social isolation words. The implications of these results for both past and future research are discussed.
- ItemIntracoalition Dynamics in India: Analyzing Strategic Transfers and Stability(2024) Goyal, Devansh; Parameswaran, Giri
- ItemThe Effects of Mortality Salience and Social Isolation Salience on Individualistic and Collectivistic Cognition(2006) Polykoff, JasonTerror management theory asserts that humans have an inherent fear of dying, and when their death is made salient (mortality salience) they cling to their worldviews as a means to mitigate their fear. Coalitional psychology’s claims diverge from this assumption, stating that it is not individuals’ thoughts of death that cause them to attach to their worldviews, but instead, it is thoughts of being socially alone (social isolation salience). A study testing this assertion found no significant difference in thought accessibility between mortality salience and social isolation salience. Additionally, studies using cognitive tasks found that individuals from separate cultures (individualistic and collectivistic) think differently. The present study compared terror management theory claims and coalitional psychology claims on individualistic and collectivistic cognition. In Study 1, thought accessibility was examined using a word-completion task after participants were primed with individualistic or collectivistic thought, followed by mortality salience, social isolation salience, or neutral salience. In Study 2, participants completed two cognitive tasks, the Embedded Figures Task and the Self-Attribution Task, after being primed with the same saliencies as the first study. Results from both studies produced no relevant significant findings. The potential confounds of the study’s design and ideas for future research are discussed.