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Are we truly special and unique? A replication of Goldenberg et al. (2001)
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According to the mortality salience hypothesis of terror management theory, reminders of our future death increase the necessity to validate our cultural worldview and to enhance our self-esteem. In Experiment 2 of the study 'I am not an animal: Mortality salience, disgust, and the denial of human creatureliness', Goldenberg et al. (Goldenberg et al. 2001 J. Exp. Psychol. Gen. 130, 427-435. (doi:10.1037/0096-3445.130.3.427)) observed that participants primed with questions about their death provided more positive evaluations to an essay describing humans as distinct from animals than control participants presented with questions regarding another aversive situation. In a replication of this experiment conducted with 128 volunteers, we did not observe evidence for a mortality salience effect.
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RODRÍGUEZ-FERREIRO, Javier, et al. Are we truly special and unique? A replication of Goldenberg et al. (2001). Royal Society Open Science. 2019. Vol. 6, num. 191114. ISSN 2054-5703. [consulted: 7 of June of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/162299