Boredom salience serves as a comparison condition to isolate control restoration from meaning maintenance.
Evidence
Study 2 was designed to confront a possible meaningrelated criticism of Study 1. Proulx and Heine (2010) argued that MS and control deprivation could be viewed as instances of meaning deprivation, and illusory pattern perception constitutes efforts in meaning maintenance. We therefore compared the effects of MS and control deprivation with another aversive condition that was supposed to deprive participants of meaning. Specifically, we induced boredom salience because boredom has been shown to create a sense of meaninglessness (Van Tilburg & Igou, 2012), as well as ingroup defense via augmenting the need for meaning (Van Tilburg & Igou, 2011). — Dmitrij Agroskin and Eva Jonas, Controlling death by defending ingroups, 83
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Control motivation but not implicit death cognition drives threat-based ingroup defense. — Dmitrij Agroskin and Eva Jonas, Controlling death by defending…, 143; Ingroup defenses like prejudice function primarily to restore an orderly worldview. — Dmitrij Agroskin and Eva Jonas, Controlling death by defending…, 168
Related
- Mortality salience triggers ingroup defense through control deprivation (similarity 0.84)
- Ingroup defenses like prejudice function primarily to restore an orderly worldview. (similarity 0.81)
- Death-thought accessibility does not mediate mortality salience effects on ingroup defense. (similarity 0.80)
- Dmitrij Agroskin and Eva Jonas — Controlling death by defending ingroups Mediational insights into terror management and control restoration (similarity 0.78)
- Death reminders evoke ingroup defense through a shared loss-of-control mechanism (similarity 0.78)
- Illusory pattern perception drives both death and control threats toward ingroup defense (similarity 0.78)