Winter serves as an aversive control condition comparable to dental pain in terror-management research.

Evidence

We used three short German poems that were very similar in terms of length and form to induce feelings and thoughts associated with death/lack of control/winter. Winter was used as an aversive control topic akin to the dental pain condition frequently used in TMT research (e.g., Jonas, Greenberg, & Frey, 2003). — Dmitrij Agroskin and Eva Jonas, Controlling death by defending ingroups, 47

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Relevant to ‘Control restoration’ parallels with the author’s sacrificial-grief framework if seasonal/aversive imagery functions as a comparable threat inducer.
• SHARE: Winter as a stand-in for dental pain — a control topic that isn’t death but is still aversive — could be a useful detail for a colleague building TMT stimuli.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Dmitrij Agroskin and Eva Jonas, Controlling death by defending…, 47