¨In a 1997 article,
Arndt and his colleagues at the University
of Arizona report on 3 different studies designed to test Terror
Management Theory. The procedure for these studies involved exposing the
subject to different types of
words flashed on a computer screen, including
all of the following EXCEPT:
¨a.
death words (e.g., “dead” flashed on the screen)
¨b.
pain words (e.g., “hurt” flashed on the screen)
¨c.
worldview words (e.g., “culture” flashed on the screen)
¨d.
subliminal death words (e.g., ”dead” flashed quickly on the screen)