Successful conversion reduces the converter’s death anxiety

Evidence

Furthermore, studies show that proselytizing is prophylactic: if I learn that you have adopted my beliefs, I feel more confident of their validity and consequently don’t worry so much about my own death. — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core, 498

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: proselytizing as self-medication for mortality anxiety — reframes evangelism and ideological zeal as psychological prophylaxis.
• QUESTION: Does this prediction hold in reverse — do failed conversion attempts increase death anxiety?