Terror Management among Chinese: Worldview Defense, and Intergroup Bias in Resource Allocation

• Main Authors: TAM, Kim-Pong, CHIU, Chi-Yue, LAU, Ivy Yee-Man
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2007
• Subjects: Chinese culture; intergroup bias; mortality salience; terror management theory; worldview defence; Asian Studies; Social Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/147
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Management of terror of death and its subsequent reactions has been held to be universal. However, with only a few exceptions empirical efforts have so far been focused on people from North American and European countries. Would Eastern philosophical traditions render differential management of the...