Cancer and the threat of death: The cognitive dynamics of death-thought suppression and its impact on behavioral health intentions
Cancer and the threat of death: The cognitive dynamics of death-thought suppression and its impact on behavioral health intentions
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DOI：
10.1037/0022-3514.92.1.12
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发表时间：
2007-01-01
影响因子：
7.6
通讯作者：
Cox, Cathy R.
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作者：
Arndt, Jamie;Cook, Alison;Cox, Cathy R.
五项研究探讨了癌症想法和死亡想法之间的认知联系及其对筛查意图的影响。第一项研究发现，对癌症的明确思考并没有增加死亡思想的可及性。为了支持这一假设，即这反映了对死亡相关想法的抑制，研究2发现，在高认知负荷下，想到癌症的个体表现出更高的死亡想法可及性，研究3表明，癌症这个词的阈下启动导致死亡想法可及性增加。研究4显示，当对癌症的易感性较高时，死亡思想的可及性水平较低，再次表明与癌症相关的有意识威胁会抑制与死亡相关的思想。研究5扩展了分析，发现在癌症显着性之后，高认知负荷可能会破坏癌症与死亡之间联系的抑制，降低癌症相关的自我检查意图。理解恐怖管理，启动和抑制，以及对癌症的反应的理论和实践意义进行了讨论。
Five studies examined the cognitive association between thoughts of cancer and thoughts of death and their implication for screening intentions. Study I found that explicit contemplation of cancer did not increase death-thought accessibility. In support of the hypothesis that this reflects suppression of death-related thoughts, Study 2 found that individuals who thought about cancer exhibited elevated death-thought accessibility under high cognitive load, and Study 3 demonstrated that subliminal primes of the word cancer led to increased death-thought accessibility. Study 4 revealed lower levels of death-thought accessibility when perceived vulnerability to cancer was high, once again suggesting suppression of death-related thoughts in response to conscious threats associated with cancer. Study 5 extended the analysis by finding that after cancer salience, high cognitive load, which presumably disrupts suppression of the association between cancer and death, decreased cancer-related self-exam intentions. Theoretical and practical implications for understanding terror management, priming and suppression, and responses to cancer are discussed.