Death-thought accessibility is measured covertly via ambiguous word fragments.

Evidence

Next, participants completed a word fragment task that contained 17 death-related items (e.g., in Dutch the fragment doo_ can be completed as dood [dead], doos [box], or doof [deaf]). — Enny Das, Brad J. Bushman, Marieke D. Bezemer, Peter Kerkhof, Ivar E. Vermeulen, How Terrorism News Reports Increase…, 169

Categorization

• DEFINE: Illustrates the word-fragment completion method for measuring death-thought accessibility — a nice concrete example of the paradigm.