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Bicultural individuals shift worldviews contextually under death threat

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aliases@greenberg_terror_2008, loc. 82

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Bicultural individuals shift worldviews contextually under death threat

Evidence

Finally, Halloran and Kashima (2004) provided encouraging evidence that individuals can indeed adopt pluralistic worldviews, and that these worldviews can effectively serve terror management functions. These studies were done with bicultural Aborigines: individuals whose beliefs are rooted both in traditional Australian culture and the more modern and prevailing Anglo-Australian culture. These individuals responded to MS in ways that corresponded to one or the other of these worldviews, depending on which worldview was first brought to their attention. Specifically, if these people were first led to contemplate Aboriginal beliefs, then MS led them to prefer Aboriginal values; but if they were first led to contemplate Anglo-Australian beliefs, then MS led them to prefer Anglo-Australian values. This suggests that bicultural individuals may have a readiness to productively adapt the values they express to the situations in which they find themselves. — Jeff Greenberg and Spee Kosloff, Terror Management Theory, 82

Categorization

  • QUESTION: This contextual switching between two affirmative cultural identities is near the reader’s negated-identity question, but the two poles here are both positive worldviews rather than one being defined purely by what it opposes.
  • XREF: connects to: Prejudiced targets cope via assimilation, resistance, or pluralism — Jeff Greenberg and Spee Kosloff, Terror Management Theory: Implications…, 75; Death-awareness drives humans to cling to cultural worldviews and self-esteem — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core: On the Role of…, 476; Awareness of mortality drives people to defend cultural worldviews that give life meaning. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1488 (+2 more)

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