latest lab paper with a dream team of scientists Nathan DeWall, Suzanne Segerstrom, & Kirk Brown). 4 experiments in a 5000 word paper! reducing the babbling introductions in psychology, one paper at a time... Kashdan, T.B., Dewall, C.N., Schurtz, D.R., Deckman, T., Lykins, E.L.B., Evans, D.R., McKenzie, J., Segerstrom, S.C., Gailliot, M.T., & Brown, K.W. (in press). More than words: Contemplating death enhances positive emotional word use. Personality and Individual Differences Abstract Four experiments, three cross-sectional and one longitudinal, tested the hypothesis that contemplating ones own death produces a shift toward the use of positive emotion words. Participants who wrote about their own death, compared with those who wrote about dental pain, uncertainty, and meaninglessness, used more positive emotions words in their narratives (Experiments 1a and 1b). Experiment 2 found that contemplating ones own death enhanced positive emotional word use across different mortality salience manipulations and remained consistent over the course of a 6-day study. Experiment 3 showed that the more positive emotion words participants used when contemplating their mortality, the greater worldview defense they showed. These results suggest that word use offers insight into how the mind responds to the salience of mortality.
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