A Psychiatrist's Experience of Death Terror

Casey, Jesse F.

doi:10.1111/j.1943-278x.1981.tb00905.x

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“…These are important findings, in part because they can be contrasted with suggestions that thinking about death and mortality can be so overwhelming that other issues receive less attention than they normally do (e.g., Battegay, 1975; Casey, 1981; Fortner & Niemeyer, 1999). In correspondence with the large amount of empirical findings that terror management theory has generated (e.g., Arndt et al, 1999; Greenberg et al, 1990, 1997; Harmon-Jones et al, 1997; McGregor et al, 1998; Rosenblatt et al, 1989; Solomon et al, 1991), the current research shows that mortality salience leads people to react more negatively toward violation and more positively toward things that uphold or bolster their cultural norms and values.…”

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“…We think it is interesting to investigate this hypothesis not only because of the above-mentioned reasons, but also because the hypothesis can be contrasted with suggestions that thinking about death and mortality can be so overwhelming that other issues receive less attention than they normally do (see, e.g., Battegay, 1975; Casey, 1981; Fortner & Niemeyer, 1999). This suggests that after they have been thinking about death and mortality, our participants may feel that whether or not they are allowed an opportunity to voice their opinion or whether they are confronted with accurate or inaccurate procedures in the lab experiments is not very important.…”

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Toward understanding why fairness matters: The influence of mortality salience on reactions to procedural fairness.

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2000

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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This article focuses on the question of why fairness matters to people. On the basis of fairness heuristic theory, the authors argue that people especially need fairness when they are uncertain about things that are important to them. Following terror management theory, the authors focus on a basic kind of human uncertainty: fear of death. Integrating these two theoretical frameworks, it is proposed that thinking about their mortality should make fairness a more important issue to people. The findings of three experiments support the authors' line of reasoning: Asking participants to think about their mortality led to stronger fair process effects (positive effects of perceived procedural fairness on subsequent reactions) than not asking them to think about mortality. It is argued that these findings suggest that fairness especially matters to people when they are uncertain about fundamental aspects of human life such as human mortality.

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