APS
31st APS Annual Convention · 2019
Using P-Curve to Find Evidential Value in the Terror Management Literature
- Rachele Benjamin
University of British Columbia - Bill Chen
University of British Columbia - Addison Lai
University of British Columbia - Steven Heine
University of British Columbia
Abstract
Using the p-curve, a tool for detecting publication bias (Simonsohn, Nelson & Simmons, 2014), we determined if Terror Management Theory’s mortality salience hypothesis (Greenberg, Pyszczynski, & Solomon, 1986), has evidential value. Our analysis suggests that there is evidential value, but the effect size is much lower than previously believed.
Social Cognition
