APS
30th APS Annual Convention · 2018
Money As an Existential Anxiety Buffer: Exposure to Money Prevents Mortality Reminders from Leading to Increased Death Thoughts
- Agata Gasiorowska
SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities - Tomasz Zaleskiewicz
SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities - Pelin Kesebir
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Abstract
We present five experiments on Polish and American samples showing that money helps people deal with existential anxiety. Exposure to money cues decreases the accessibility of death-related cognition when mortality thoughts are activated, and as a result, reduced death anxiety. This effect is stronger among people linking self-worth to finances.
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