Successfully challenging fundamentalist beliefs results in increased death awareness

Friedman, Mike; Rholes, W. Steven

doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2006.07.008

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“…In the current studies, priming the otherwise neglected compassionate religious values in the context of the fundamentalist's sacred text seems to produce alternate defensive strategies in response to MS that entail living up to these standards. The fact that MS increased adherence to the compassionate values of their faith among high RFs is consistent with the role of death-related concerns in religion posited by TMT (Greenberg, Landau, Solomon, & Pyszczynski, 2005) and the particular role that fundamentalism plays in these processes, posited by Friedman and Rholes (2006), Friedman and Rholes (2008).…”

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confidence: 73%

“…A growing body of literature supports the idea that fundamentalists' rely on their textually centered belief systems to alleviate death concerns. In one study Friedman and Rholes (2006) found that pointing out conflicting biblical passages increased death-thought accessibility for high but not low fundamentalist Christians. Another study found that high fundamentalist participants reported more positive responses to open-ended MS questions (which could be a sign of their greater use of literal immortality beliefs to cope with the problem of death) but did not show increased secular worldview defense after MS as compared to a control prime (Friedman & Rholes, 2008).…”

Section: Terror Management Theorymentioning

confidence: 98%

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Does peace have a prayer? The effect of mortality salience, compassionate values, and religious fundamentalism on hostility toward out-groups

Rothschild

Abdollahi

Pyszczynski

2009

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 73%

Section: Terror Management Theorymentioning

confidence: 98%

Does peace have a prayer? The effect of mortality salience, compassionate values, and religious fundamentalism on hostility toward out-groups

Rothschild

Abdollahi

Pyszczynski

2009

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

138

128

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“…Indeed, with the addition of the research reported in this article, higher levels of DTA have now been observed following threats to people's cultural worldview, belief in a just world, romantic relationships, and self-esteem (Florian, Mikulincer, & Hirschberger, 2002;Friedman & Rholes, 2007;Hayes et al, in press;Hirschberger, 2006;Landau et al, 2004;Mikulincer et al, 2002;Schimel et al, 2007). Furthermore, exposing people to situations and events that remind them of the fragility of human existence such as cancer patients, persons with disabilities, and human creatureliness have also been shown to increase DTA (Arndt et al, 2007;Cox et al, 2007;Goldenberg et al, 1999;Hirschberger et al, 2005).…”

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confidence: 87%

Evidence for the DTA hypothesis II: Threatening self-esteem increases death-thought accessibility

Hayes

Schimel

Faucher

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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

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“…Esto es coherente con un gran número de investigaciones que han evidenciado el papel de la religiosidad como protector de la ansiedad relacionada con la propia muerte (saliencia de mortalidad) y que la postre podría favorecer respuestas diferentes a las amenazas existenciales (Friedman y Rholes, 2007;Greenberg, Porteus, Simon, Pyszczynski y Solomon, 1995;Norenzayan, Dar-Nimrod, Hansen, y Proulx, 2009;Norenzayan y Shariff, 2008). Sin embargo, como ya hemos comentado no encontramos relaciones estadísticamente significativas entre necesidad de cierre cognitivo y la religiosidad en la muestra analizada.…”

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Cierre cognitivo, sexismo y religiosidad: diferencias y similitudes entre grupos de adolescentes con distinta cultura

2013

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Resumen: Desde el ámbito de la cognición social motivada, la necesidad de cierre cognitivo emerge como una variable crucial para la mejor comprensión de las diferencias individuales en variables psicosociales asociadas a la cultura y, además, susceptible de tener en cuenta en programas de intervención cuyo objetivo vaya dirigido a modificar actitudes ancladas en el prejuicio y la discriminación. En la presente investigación se ha realizado un estudio de este constructo motivacional y su relación con el sexismo y la religiosidad en una muestra de adolescentes cristianos y musulmanes, todos ellos residentes en un contexto social con un marcado carácter multicultural. De acuerdo con los datos obtenidos, no se han encontrado diferencias entre musulmanes y cristianos en necesidad de cierre cognitivo y sexismo. Sin embargo, se han encontrado diferencias por sexo en sexismo hostil. La necesidad de cierre cognitivo correlacionó de una forma estadísticamente significativa con el sexismo (hostil y benevolente), y es un buen predictor. Los musulmanes puntuaron de una forma significativamente más elevada que los cristianos en los indicadores de religiosidad. Se discuten los resultados en el marco de investigaciones previas. Palabras clave: Cierre cognitivo; sexismo; religiosidad; cultura.Title: Cognitive closure, sexism and religiosity: differences and similarities between teenagers with different culture. Abstract: In the context of motivated social cognition, the need for cognitive closure emerges like a decisive factor for a better understanding of individual differences on psychosocial variables linked to culture. Besides, they are likely to be taken into account in intervention programmes which objectives would aim to modify attitudes anchored in prejudice and discrimination. The goal of this research is to study this motivational construct and its relationship with sexism and religiosity with a sample of Christians and Muslims teenagers, all of them living in a multicultural context. According to the gathered data, there are not any significant differences between Muslims and Christians in need for cognitive closure and sexism. However, there are significant differences between girls and boys in hostile sexism. The need for cognitive closure was positively related, in a statistically significant way, with sexism (hostile and benevolent), and it is a significant predictor. Muslims got higher scores than Christians on indicators of religiosity in a statistically significant way. Results are discussed in relation to previous research. Key words: Cognitive closure; sexism; religiosity; culture. IntroducciónEl concepto de necesidad de cierre cognitivo (need for cognitive closure), fue propuesto por Arie W. Kruglanski (1989Kruglanski ( , 2004) para desarrollar un modelo científico sobre los aspectos cognitivo-conductuales de la toma de decisiones. Básicamente, la necesidad de cierre cognitivo puede ser definida como el deseo de dar una respuesta rápida a una pregunta o cuestión que tiene contenido confuso y ambiguo. Se asum...

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Successfully challenging fundamentalist beliefs results in increased death awareness

Cited by 72 publications

References 26 publications

Does peace have a prayer? The effect of mortality salience, compassionate values, and religious fundamentalism on hostility toward out-groups

Does peace have a prayer? The effect of mortality salience, compassionate values, and religious fundamentalism on hostility toward out-groups

Evidence for the DTA hypothesis II: Threatening self-esteem increases death-thought accessibility

Cierre cognitivo, sexismo y religiosidad: diferencias y similitudes entre grupos de adolescentes con distinta cultura

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