Summit

2024 APS Global Psychological Science Summit · 2024

Responses to Abortion Restrictions As a Function of Existential Anxiety, Worldview Defense, and History of Reproductive Coercion

Virtual · October 2024

Posters · Social Psychology

Session: Poster Session - Holding

Authors

Abstract

We assessed the role of existential anxiety and worldview defense on responses to abortion reminders. There were 626 participants from two universities in different geographic regions of the US. Those who were reminded of their mortality and identified as pro-life assigned significantly higher monetary punishment than all other groups.

Implicit Bias