“We are people”: Ingroup humanization as an existential defense.

Jeroen Vaes · Nathan A. Heflick · Jamie L. Goldenberg

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Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning Social and Intergroup Psychology

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Prior research has shown the importance of humanness in shaping one's social identity, but no research has examined why this is the case. The present article reveals that humanizing the ingroup serves a terror management function. In 3 studies, Italian (Studies 1 and 2) and American (Study 3) participants humanized their own group more when their mortality was salient. In Study 3, humanizing the ingroup also functioned to reduce the accessibility of death thoughts. Together, these studies provide clear support for terror management theory as an explanatory framework for ingroup humanization.

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