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  • Terror management theory posits that death awareness triggers psychological defenses.
  • The passage of time is intrinsically linked to mortality.
  • Understanding the psychological impact of death salience is crucial.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the hypothesis that contemplating death influences time perception.
  • To determine if death awareness leads to an elongation of perceived time intervals.
  • To explore the relationship between mortality salience and temporal overestimation.

Main Methods:

  • Three studies were conducted with college student participants.
  • Methodology involved assessing frequency of death thoughts and time estimation.
  • Study 3 employed an experimental design, assigning participants to think about death or a control topic.

Main Results:

  • Studies 1 and 2 revealed a positive correlation between death frequency and time overestimation.
  • Study 3 demonstrated a causal link: thinking about death led to longer time estimates.
  • Participants in the death-thought condition significantly overestimated brief durations compared to controls.

Conclusions:

  • Mortality salience appears to motivate an elongation of perceived time.
  • Time overestimation may serve as a psychological defense mechanism against death anxiety.
  • Findings support terror management theory by linking death awareness to cognitive processes.