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  • Terror management theory posits that awareness of mortality elicits existential anxiety.
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  • Direct evidence for implicit negative affect under mortality salience is limited.

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  • To investigate the role of self-regulation, specifically action versus state orientation, in modulating implicit affective responses to mortality salience.
  • To explore whether individual differences in self-regulation influence the experience of negative affect when death is made salient.

Main Methods:

  • Participants completed measures assessing personality (action vs. state orientation).
  • Mortality salience was manipulated, followed by a task assessing affective judgments of artificial words.
  • A control condition without mortality salience was included for comparison.

Main Results:

  • Action-oriented individuals judged artificial words as expressing less negative affect under mortality salience compared to control conditions.
  • State-oriented individuals exhibited the opposite pattern, judging words as more negative under mortality salience.
  • This suggests self-regulation ability influences implicit emotional responses to death awareness.

Conclusions:

  • Individual differences in self-regulation significantly impact implicit negative affect in response to mortality salience.
  • Action orientation may facilitate the regulation of negative affect associated with death awareness.
  • State orientation may be linked to heightened negative affect when mortality is salient.