Age-related differences in responses to thoughts of one's own death: Mortality salience and judgments of moral transgressions
Age-related differences in responses to thoughts of one's own death: Mortality salience and judgments of moral transgressions
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DOI：
10.1037/0882-7974.22.2.341
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发表时间：
2007-06-01
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Solomon, Sheldon
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作者：
Maxfield, Molly;Pyszczynski, Tom;Solomon, Sheldon
两项实验探讨了年龄对死亡提醒的反应差异。恐怖管理研究表明，死亡提醒会导致人们更加坚持和捍卫自己的文化世界观。在研究1中，死亡率的显着性（MS）的年轻人和老年人的道德越轨的评价的影响进行了比较。年轻人对MS表现出典型的更严厉的判断模式，而老年人则没有。研究2比较了年轻人和老年人对典型的MS诱导和更微妙的死亡提醒的反应。虽然年轻人对MS诱导的反应更严厉，但老年人在微妙的MS诱导后做出了显着不那么严厉的评价。解释这种发展变化的反应提醒死亡进行了讨论。
Two experiments explored age differences in response to reminders of death. Terror management research has shown that death reminders lead to increased adherence to and defense of one's cultural worldview. In Study 1, the effect of mortality salience (MS) on evaluations of moral transgressions made by younger and older adults was compared. Whereas younger adults showed the typical pattern of harsher judgments in-response to MS, older adults did not. Study 2 compared younger and older adults' responses to both the typical MS induction and a more subtle death reminder. Whereas younger adults responded to both MS inductions with harsher evaluations, older adults made significantly less harsh evaluations after the subtle MS induction. Explanations for this developmental shift in responses to reminders of death are discussed.