Re: Okinawa

[Guest guest]

Do the quiet hawks practice CR, or is dominating death via killing a better way of achieving symbolic immortality or at least alleviating that anxiety? Also, I thought fewer and fewer Americans voted, and of those who did, the majority didn't vote for their current government.

HOWEVER, as it might relate to CR, any or all of the following studies are of interest. Clinton was overtly aware of this work and I get the very strong sense W is. Walford has even been interviewed about it, and I'm looking forward to seeing the release of that documentary next month. The Taubman (last) article may be the most interesting, since it suggests that anxiety can prompt dangerous behaviour through a need for increased self-esteem via social identification/belonging -- perhaps this is why gory drinking & driving posters don't work, and the relationship between health & diet is not normally a strong motivator (the less healthy socially desirable body image is more prevalent):

Arndt, and Jeff Greenberg. “The Effects of Self-Esteem Boost and Mortality Salience on Responses to Boost-Relevant and Irrelevant Worldview Threats.” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 25.11 (1999): 1331-1342.

Arndt, , Jeff Greenberg, Jeff Schimel, Tom Pyszczynski, and Sheldon . “To Belong or Not to Belong, That is the Question: Terror Management and Identification With Gender and Ethnicity.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 83.1 (2002): 26-43.

Goldenberg, L, Tom Pyszczynki, Jeff Greenberg, Sheldon , Kluck, and Robin Cornwell. “I am Not an Animal: Mortality Salience, Disgust, and the Denial of Human Creatureliness.” Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 130.3 (2001): 427-435

Goldenberg, L., Tom Pyszczynski, Jeff Greenberg and Sheldon . “Fleeing the Body: A Terror Management Perspective on the Problem of Human Corporeality.” Personality and Social Psychology Review 4.3 (2000): 200-218.

Goldenberg, L., Tom Pyszczynksi, S.K. McCoy, Jeff Greenberg and Sheldon . “Death, Sex, Love, and Neuroticism: Why is Sex Such a Problem?” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 77 (1999): 1173-1187.

Greenberg, Jeff, Tom Pyszczynksi, and Sheldon . “The Causes and Consequences of a Need For Self-Esteem: A Terror Management Theory.” Public and Private Self. Ed. R.F. Baumeister. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1986. 189-212.

Schimel, Jeff and Sheldon . “Stereotypes and Terror Management: Evidence That Mortality Salience Enhances Stereotypic Thinking.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 77.5 (1999): 905-926.

Taubman Ben-Ari, Orit. “The Effect of Reminders of Death on Reckless Driving: A Terror Management Perspective.” Current Directions in Psychological Science 9.6 (2000): 196-199.

Cheers,

______________________ Gifford3-5 Humanities CentreDepartment of EnglishUniversity of Albertawww.ualberta.ca/~gifford