Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Believing in Karma: The Effect of Mortality Salience on Excessive Consumption |
| Authors: |
Siyun Chen, Haiying Wei, Lu Meng, Yaxuan Ran |
| Source: |
Frontiers in Psychology, Vol 10 (2019) |
| Publisher Information: |
Frontiers Media S.A., 2019. |
| Publication Year: |
2019 |
| Collection: |
LCC:Psychology |
| Subject Terms: |
belief in karma, mortality salience, terror management, temporal perspective, excessive consumption, Psychology, BF1-990 |
| More Details: |
This research proposes that mortality salience leads individuals to engage in differentiation of excessive consumption based on their appraisal of the karmic system. Study 1 demonstrated that mortality salience interacts with belief in karma to jointly determine excessive consumption, such that consumers faced with mortality salience tend to increase overconsumption likelihood when they have a weak (vs. strong) belief in karma. Study 2 revealed the underlying mechanism – temporal perspective – that drives our main effect. Replicating the findings of the two previous studies, study 3 further delineated benefit appeal as a theoretically derived boundary condition for the proposed interaction effect on excessiveness. Theoretical and, practical implications, as well as avenues for future research are discussed. |
| Document Type: |
article |
| File Description: |
electronic resource |
| Language: |
English |
| ISSN: |
1664-1078 |
| Relation: |
https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01519/full; https://doaj.org/toc/1664-1078 |
| DOI: |
10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01519 |
| Access URL: |
https://doaj.org/article/bf90a2aa9eea45968fb3df243b6aa7fe |
| Accession Number: |
edsdoj.bf90a2aa9eea45968fb3df243b6aa7fe |
| Database: |
Directory of Open Access Journals |
