An experimental study was carried out in order to explore two aspects of the terror management theory that have received little attention until now. The first objective was to see whether the different procedures to arouse mortality awareness have the same effects in certain dimensions included within the general construct of ‘worldviews’ (namely, commitment to life‐after‐death beliefs, Eurocentrism and xenophobia, European identity and the importance attached to the family and offspring in personal growth). The second objective was to study the role played by three mediators (emotions, death‐thoughts accessibility and self‐esteem) in the effects of mortality awareness on worldviews. The results revealed that different death reminders influenced different worldview dimensions and that emotions played a major role in the process.

We studied the influence of explicitating

Three studies were designed to prove that while instrumentality and communality are mainly dimensions related to role identities, and thus determined by occupational status, masculinity and femininity are social identities linked to gender. Some ideas are put forward as to the reasons that have led historically to the overlapping of role and gender identities. The studies showed that people differentiate communality/instrumentality and masculinity/ femininity, perceiving the former as linked to professional status and the latter to gender membership. Finally, current representations of masculinity and femininity are explored.

In this study evidence is given on the mechanisms subjects use to guarantee the stability of their social representations. A n initial interview was held in which subjects REPRESENTATIONS AND MEMORYThe objective of this study is to analyze the mechanisms involved in keeping a social representation stable. Most studies in social representations are static analyses of already established representations and their influence as an independent variable on a particular phenomenon of interest. In this study we aim to analyze distortions in information recall, be it in the form of selective or distorted recall of original information.Furthermore, if it is confirmed that biases in recall act as mechanisms to guarantee the stability of pre-existing representations, this would question the usefulness of prevention campaigns based exclusively on imparting information.Within the area of attitude theory, the influence of pre-existing information on social perception and cognitive processes has been the subject of much discussion

Three experimental studies analyzed the extent to which correlations between implicit and explicit measures of (anti-Arab) attitudes depend on the conditions in which these measures are applied. The first study revealed that the correlation increased when the explicit measure was applied in conditions of time-pressure and cognitive load. The second study showed that, under these conditions, both implicit and explicit measures predicted stereotypic attributions. The third study confirmed that the correlation between both measures increased when participants were previously familiarized with the logic that underlies the use of implicit measures. The theoretical and methodological implications of these results are discussed.