Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2012
Abstract
The current work tested the hypothesis that a glucose drink would reduce worldview defense following mortality salience. Participants consumed either a glucose drink or placebo, wrote about either death or dental pain, and then completed a measure of worldview defense (viewing positively someone with pro-US views and viewing negatively someone with anti-US views). Mortality salience increased world- view defense among participants who consumed a placebo but not among participants who consumed a glucose drink. Glucose might reduce defensiveness after mortality salience by increasing the effectiveness of the self-controlled suppression of death-related thought, by providing resources to cope with mortality salience and reducing its threatening nature, or by distancing the individual from actual physical death.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4236/psych.2012.311149
Repository Citation
Gailliot, Matthew T., "Mortality Salience and Metabolism: Glucose Drinks Reduce Worldview Defense Caused by Mortality Salience" (2012). Faculty Publications. 7.
https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/psychology_facultypubs/7
Comments
Gailliot, M. T. (2012). Mortality Salience and Metabolism: Glucose Drinks Reduce Worldview Defense Caused by Mortality Salience. Psychology, 03(11), 991–996. https://doi.org/10.4236/psych.2012.311149