Mortality Salience, System Justification, and Candidate Evaluations in the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election.

Experiments conducted during the 2004 and 2008 U.S. presidential elections suggested that mortality salience primes increased support for President George W. Bush and Senator John McCain, respectively. Some interpreted these results as reflecting "conservative shift" following exposure to...

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Main Authors: Joanna Sterling, John T Jost, Patrick E Shrout
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4794238?pdf=render