mortality salience

collocation in English

meaningsofmortalityandsalience

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mortality
noun[U]
uk
/mɔːˈtæl.ə.ti/us
/mɔːrˈtæl.ə.t̬i/
the way that people do not live ...
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salience
noun[U]
uk
/ˈseɪ.li.əns/us
/ˈseɪ.li.əns/
the fact of being important to or connected with what is happening or ...
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(Definition ofmortalityandsaliencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Although atheists undermortalitysaliencedid not show stronger supernatural belief, neither did they derogate supernatural beliefs (in defending an atheistic worldview).
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Another study found thatmortalitysaliencecould cause an increase in support for martyrdom and military intervention.
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Studies also show thatmortalitysaliencecan also lead people to feel more inclined to punish minor moral transgressions.
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A t test comparing themortalitysaliencecondition and the control found that participants in the mortality salience condition found the art less attractive.
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Most research done on terror management theory revolves around themortalitysalienceparadigm.
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Humans respond to the anxiety and dreadmortalitysalienceproduces by clinging to their cultural worldview, through self-esteem and also close personal relationships.
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Subjects with low dissociative tendencies reacted as terror management theory predicts when confronted withmortalitysalienceand thought of the earthquake.
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The results indicated that subjects with high dissociative tendencies showed no effect ofmortalitysalienceon attitudes toward the foreign aid.
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Experimenters found that individuals with higher self-esteem do not react tomortalitysalience, while those with moderate self-esteem do.
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Themortalitysaliencecondition consisted of two opened ended questions about emotions and physical details concerning the participants own death.
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Three priming conditions were employed:mortalitysalience, earthquake or dental pain.
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Mortalitysaliencehas an influence on individuals and their decisions regarding their health.
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Particularly with people's smoking behaviors, self-esteem andmortalitysaliencehave different effects on individuals decisions.
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Actual warning labels were utilized to createmortalitysaliencein this specific experiment.
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