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Stereotypes and terror management: Evidence that mortality salience enhances stereotypic thinking and preferences.

Jeff Schimel · Jeff Greenberg · Tom Pyszczynski · Sheldon Solomon · Jeannette Waxmonsky · Jamie Arndt

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

Abstract

If stereotypes function to protect people against death-related concerns, then mortality salience should increase stereotypic thinking and preferences for stereotype-confirming individuals. Study 1 demonstrated that mortality salience increased stereotyping of Germans. In Study 2, it increased participants' tendency to generate more explanations for stereotype-inconsistent than stereotype-consistent gender role behavior. In Study 3, mortality salience increased participants' liking for a stereotype-consistent African American and decreased their liking for a stereotype-inconsistent African American; control participants exhibited the opposite preference. Study 4 replicated this pattern with evaluations of stereotype-confirming or stereotype-disconfirming men and women. Study 5 showed that, among participants high in need for closure, mortality salience led to decreased liking for a stereotype-inconsistent gay man.

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