Stereotypes and mortality salience: evidence supporting terror management theory's view of stereotype and prejudice
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- Algoma University Archives > Algoma University Theses collection > Psychology series > Stereotypes and mortality salience: evidence supporting terror management theory's view of stereotype and prejudice
- Creator
- Jason Patrick Zeppa
- Date
- 2002
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- 3.37 MB of textual records (PDF)
- General Material Designation
- Electronic record, Textual record
- Language(s)
- English
- Bibliographic Information
- Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.:, OSTMA-PSYC-Zeppa-Jason-Patrick-20020402
- Descriptive Notes
- Audience: Undergraduate. -- Dissertation: Thesis (B. A.). -- Algoma University, 2002. -- Submitted in partial fulfillment of course requirements for PSYC 4105. -- Includes figures. -- Contents: Literature review / Thesis.
- This study investigates the effects of MS on access and preference of sterotypes, predicting that MS will influence the preference for stereotype consistent depiction of cultural groups. Subjects completed a gender-role behaviour preference scale and a primed stroop color-word task using consistent and inconsistent cultural stereotypes. Self-esteem is predicted to reduce the preference for stereotype consistent groups and gender-role behaviour. Subjects were further divided into high/low self-esteem creating a 2 (mortality salience: death/dental) X2 (self-esteem: High/Low) X3 (neutral vs consistent vs inconsistent) pre/post state-anxiety tests and two death-thought accessibility scales were used to measure the effects of the independent variable. Results for the Stroop task are consistent with terror management theory and predictions. Self-esteem was found to have no effects on stereotype preference.