Culture and its neurofunctional correlates when death is in mind

被引：6

作者：

Graupmann, Verena ^{[1
]}

Peres, Isabella ^{[2
]}

Michaely, Tonia ^{[2
]}

Meindl, Thomas ^{[2
]}

Frey, Dieter ^{[2
]}

Reiser, Maximilian ^{[2
]}

Poeppel, Ernst ^{[2
]}

Fehse, Kai ^{[2
]}

Gutyrchik, Evgeny ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Depaul Univ, Chicago, IL 60614 USA

[2] Univ Munich, D-81377 Munich, Germany

来源：

NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS | 2013年 / 548卷

关键词：

Terror management theory; Culture; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Meaning maintenance; Mortality salience; Self; TERROR MANAGEMENT THEORY; AFFECTIVE WORD LIST; MORTALITY SALIENCE; FEEL; SELF; NEUROSCIENCE; LANGUAGE; THOUGHTS; BRAIN; MODEL;

D O I：

10.1016/j.neulet.2013.05.062

中图分类号：

Q189 [神经科学];

学科分类号：

071006 ;

摘要：

The human fear of death is marked by specific psychological reactions that affirm cultural belonging. Terror management theory explains this phenomenon with the symbolic immortality provided by collective meaning in culture. This coping has also been explained with the motive of maintaining a meaningful representation of the world. Here we show that neural patterns of activations corresponding to cultural worldview defense processes differed when images that affirmed participants' cultural heritage were preceded by death-related verbal primes versus verbal primes threatening meaning. Cultural content was drawn upon distinctly on a neural basis when facing death-related cognitions. The neural representation of cultural coping sheds light on the immediate mechanisms in compensating the human fear of death. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：239 / 243

页数：5

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