Enny Das, Brad J. Bushman, Marieke D. Bezemer, Peter Kerkhof, Ivar E. Vermeulen — How Terrorism News Reports Increase Prejudice Against Outgroups: A Terror Management Account
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Thesis
Death-thought accessibility is measured covertly via ambiguous word fragments. · ch. 0
Argument
- Self-esteem buffers people against death-related anxiety. — ch. 0
- A real-world murder during data collection created a natural quasi-experiment on death-thought effects. — ch. 0
- Terrorism news increases prejudice only when it is psychologically close. — ch. 1
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- A real-world murder during data collection created a natural quasi-experiment on death-thought effects. — Connects to terror management theory (TMT) literature and quasi-experimental design discussions.
- Terrorism news increases prejudice only when it is psychologically close. — Connects to the psychological-distance literature in construal level theory and to the effect of media framing—worth contrasting with global-village claims about distant news shaping attitudes. Seed
- A real-world murder during data collection created a natural quasi-experiment on death-thought effects. — An essay angle: how researchers can exploit real events that land mid-study — the murder of Theo van Gogh splitting an experimental sample by chance. Define
- Self-esteem buffers people against death-related anxiety. — A concise statement of self-esteem’s anxiety-buffering role in terror management theory.
- Death-thought accessibility is measured covertly via ambiguous word fragments. — Illustrates the word-fragment completion method for measuring death-thought accessibility — a nice concrete example of the paradigm.