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Social identity and worldview validation: the effects of ingroup identity primes and mortality salience on value endorsement
- Source :
- Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin. July, 2004, Vol. 30 Issue 7, p915, 11 p.
- Publication Year :
- 2004
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Abstract
- In this article, the authors report an investigation of the relationship between terror management and social identity processes by testing for the effects of social identity salience on worldview validation. Two studies, with distinct populations, were conducted to test the hypothesis that mortality salience would lead to worldview validation of values related to a salient social identity. In Study 1, reasonable support for this hypothesis was found with bicultural Aboriginal Australian participants (N = 97). It was found that thoughts of death led participants to validate ingroup and reject outgroup values depending on the social identity that had been made salient. In Study 2, when their student and Australian identities were primed, respectively, Anglo-Australian students (N = 119) validated values related to those identities, exclusively. The implications of the findings for identity-based worldview validation are discussed. Keywords: terror management; mortality salience; social identity; self-categorization; Indigenous Australians; Australian culture
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01461672
- Volume :
- 30
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- Gale General OneFile
- Journal :
- Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsgcl.131937416