Hermits or coffins? How Terror Management Theory and Coalitional Psychology use culture to explain our deepest fears
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2006
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Haverford College. Department of Psychology
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The present research investigated the relative validities of Terror Management Theory (TMT) and Coalitional Psychology in 2 experiments. Based on previous research suggesting that individuals in a culture can be primed on the allocentrism spectrum, all participants, who were college students in the United States, first received a cultural prime (collectivism vs. individualism) and then a salience manipulation (mortality vs. social isolation vs. neutral). Experiment 1 measured fundamental attribution error and field-dependence, and Experiment 2 examined thought accessibility with respect to the salience prime. Our results were not significant and did not support either theory. Implications and future directions are discussed.