Terror Management Theory and Judgments of Close Relationships
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2005
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Haverford College. Department of Psychology
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This study was designed to relate terror management theory with different features of close relationships. Terror management theory suggests that when mortality is made salient, people cling to a variety of aspects of their cultures in an effort to ease their anxiety. Participants were given a variety of different personality assessment measures and then exposed to either a mortality salience or control prime. After a short delay, they were asked to respond to questions about vignettes which described third party's close relationships. No main effect was found for mortality salience, the independent variable, or for any of the quasi-independent variables: attachment style, implicit theories of relationships, or self-esteem. There were also no interactions.