Do salient social norms moderate mortality salience effects? A (challenging) meta-analysis of terror management studies

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Terror management theory postulates that mortality salience (MS) increases the motivation to defend one’s cultural worldviews. How that motivation is expressed may depend on the social norm that is momentarily salient. Meta-analyses were conducted on studies that manipulated MS and social norm salience. Results based on 64 effect sizes for the hypothesized interaction between MS and norm salience revealed a small-to-medium effect of g = 0.34, 95% confidence interval [0.26, 0.41]. Bias-adjustment techniques suggested the presence of publication bias and/or the exploitation of researcher degrees of freedom and arrived at smaller effect size estimates for the hypothesized interaction, in several cases reducing the effect to nonsignificance (range g corrected = −0.36 to 0.15). To increase confidence in the idea that MS and norm salience interact to influence behavior, preregistered, high-powered experiments using validated norm salience manipulations are necessary. Concomitantly, more specific theorizing is needed to identify reliable boundary conditions of the effect.

OriginalspracheEnglisch
ZeitschriftPersonality and Social Psychology Review
Jahrgang27
Ausgabenummer2
Seiten (von - bis)195-225
Anzahl der Seiten31
ISSN1088-8683
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PublikationsstatusErschienen - 05.2023
Extern publiziertJa

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