Reminders of Mortality: Investigating the Effects of Different Mortality Saliences on Somatosensory Neural Activity.

ABSTRACT: The Terror Management Theory (TMT) offered a great deal of generative hypotheses that have been tested in a plethora of studies. However, there is a still substantive lack of clarity about the interpretation of TMT-driven effects and their underlying neurological mechanisms. Here, we aimed to expand upon previous research by introducing two novel methodological manipulations aimed to enhance the effects of mortality salience (MS). We presented participants with the idea of the participants' romantic partner's death as well as increased the perceived threat of somatosensory stimuli. Linear mixed modelling disclosed the greater effects of MS directed at one's romantic partner on pain perception (as opposed to the participant's own mortality). The theta event-related oscillatory activity meas

SUBMITTER: Gyimes IL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10377243 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature