Do salient social norms moderate mortality salience effects? A (challenging) meta-analysis of terror management studies
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in: Personality and Social Psychology Review, Jahrgang 27, Nr. 2, 05.2023, S. 195-225.
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T1 - Do salient social norms moderate mortality salience effects? A (challenging) meta-analysis of terror management studies
AU - Schindler, Simon
AU - Hilgard, Joseph
AU - Fritsche, Immo
AU - Burke, Brian
AU - Pfattheicher, Stefan
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022 by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc.
PY - 2023/5
Y1 - 2023/5
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Psychology
KW - meta-analysis
KW - mortality salience
KW - publication bias
KW - social norms
KW - terror management theory
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U2 - 10.1177/10888683221107267
DO - 10.1177/10888683221107267
M3 - Scientific review articles
C2 - 35950528
VL - 27
SP - 195
EP - 225
JO - Personality and Social Psychology Review
JF - Personality and Social Psychology Review
SN - 1088-8683
IS - 2
ER -