Poem-based threat inductions risk confounds from unequal content

Evidence

However, one could argue that our threat manipulation was not pure enough to ensure that the change in the dependent variables was only due to different intensities of control deprivation and the resultant control motivation. Although the poems used were matched in length, style, and content as far as possible, some differences in content remained. — Dmitrij Agroskin and Eva Jonas, Controlling death by defending ingroups, 75

Categorization

• SEED: A methodological caution useful for anyone designing MS or control-restoration studies: matching on length, style, and content is insufficient without pilot testing threat purity.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Dmitrij Agroskin and Eva Jonas, Controlling death by defending…, 75
• XREF: connects to: Meaning threats evoke a content-independent need for meaning structure — Travis Proulx, Steven J. Heine, and Kathleen D. Vohs, When Is the Unfamiliar the Uncanny?…, 64

Broader Connections

• Meaning threats evoke a content-independent need for meaning structure #complicates (0.80) — Travis Proulx, Steven J. Heine, and Kathleen D. Vohs, When Is the Unfamiliar the Uncanny?…, 64