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| Title |
Leaving a Legacy Neutralizes Negative Effects of Death Anxiety on Creativity
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, July 2013
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| DOI | 10.1177/0146167213490804 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Daniel J. Sligte, Bernard A. Nijstad, Carsten K. W. De Dreu |
| Abstract |
Mortality salience (MS) can lead to a paralyzing terror, and to cope with this, people strive for literal or symbolic immortality. As MS leads to conformity and narrow-mindedness, we predicted that MS would lead to lower creativity, unless creativity itself could lead to leaving a legacy and thus symbolic immortality. We show that this pattern holds (Experiment 1), but only when creativity is socially valued (Experiment 2). Finally, especially individualistic people are more creative under MS when they can leave a legacy than when they cannot, and high originality predicts subsequent accessibility of death thoughts (Experiment 3). Implications are discussed. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 4 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Belgium | 3 | 75% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 25% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 75% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 25% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 71 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 2 | 3% |
| United States | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 68 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 21 | 30% |
| Researcher | 7 | 10% |
| Student > Master | 7 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 8% |
| Student > Bachelor | 6 | 8% |
| Other | 13 | 18% |
| Unknown | 11 | 15% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 28 | 39% |
| Social Sciences | 6 | 8% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 5 | 7% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 3 | 4% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 3 | 4% |
| Other | 10 | 14% |
| Unknown | 16 | 23% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 89. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 December 2023.
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#484,654
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#337
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#3,440
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Outputs of similar age from Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
#9
of 48 outputs
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