Imagining flight reduces death thoughts after mortality reminders

Evidence

Indeed, recent studies confirm that such supernatural escapades serve to manage existential terror. After pondering their mortality, people fantasized more about being able to fly. Additionally, after visualizing themselves flying above a lush green mountain, people reminded of their mortality had fewer death thoughts hovering on the fringes of consciousness. — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core, 316

Categorization

  • QUESTION: Would be worth tracking down which specific studies demonstrate flying imagery suppressing death-thought accessibility.
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