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

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Do salient social norms moderate mortality salience effects? A (challenging) meta-analysis of terror management studies. / Schindler, Simon; Hilgard, Joseph; Fritsche, Immo et al.
In: Personality and Social Psychology Review, Vol. 27, No. 2, 05.2023, p. 195-225.

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Schindler, S, Hilgard, J, Fritsche, I, Burke, B & Pfattheicher, S 2023, 'Do salient social norms moderate mortality salience effects? A (challenging) meta-analysis of terror management studies', Personality and Social Psychology Review, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 195-225. https://doi.org/10.1177/10888683221107267

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Schindler, S., Hilgard, J., Fritsche, I., Burke, B., & Pfattheicher, S. (2023). Do salient social norms moderate mortality salience effects? A (challenging) meta-analysis of terror management studies. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 27(2), 195-225. https://doi.org/10.1177/10888683221107267

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Schindler S, Hilgard J, Fritsche I, Burke B, Pfattheicher S. Do salient social norms moderate mortality salience effects? A (challenging) meta-analysis of terror management studies. Personality and Social Psychology Review. 2023 May;27(2):195-225. doi: 10.1177/10888683221107267

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title = "Do salient social norms moderate mortality salience effects? A (challenging) meta-analysis of terror management studies",
abstract = "Terror management theory postulates that mortality salience (MS) increases the motivation to defend one{\textquoteright}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.",
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