Add to ORKGDiener and colleagues (2001) illustrated that individuals rely heavily on endings to evaluate the quality of a life. Two studies investigated the potential for posthumous events to affect rated life quality, calling into question the intuitive ``ending'' of a life at death. Undergraduates read a series of short life narratives to assess the consequences of posthumous reversals of fortune on judgments of the goodness and happiness of the life. In a 2x2 within-subjects design, lives positive and negative in valence were displayed twice: once from birth to death and once each life was followed by a posthumous event of opposite valence. Results demonstrated that posthumous reversals of fortune shift judgments of the goodness and happiness of th...
In correspondence with terror management theory, the findings of two experiments show that reminder...
The existence of a death effect—that the value of a creative work tends to increase after the creato...
Two experiments tested the hypothesis that evaluations of the dead are more resistant to change than...
In this article, we examine the temporary and long-term consequences of the death of a parent or chi...
This study explored the effect that mortality salience, both death and imminent death, had on life g...
The effect of life events on subjective well-being (SWB) was explored in a 2-year longitudinal study...
In correspondence with terror management theory, the findings of two experiments show that reminders...
Previous research reveals that issues of existence may contribute to a protective kind of perception...
To assess whether degree of belief in afterlife enhanced bereavement recovery following different ty...
Three studies examined the relation of subjective well-being to the organization and retrieval of va...
One hundred eight college students (Study 1) and 109 elderly adults (Study 2) rated 28 health impair...
This paper assesses the impact of disturbing life events over five years on the wellbeing of 340 peo...
Do people lose hope when thinking about death? Based on Terror Management Theory, we predicted that...
The authors investigated how filial bereavement affects the subjective well-being of adult children....
Although everyone would agree that bereavement is extremely stressful, surprisingly little is known ...
In correspondence with terror management theory, the findings of two experiments show that reminder...
The existence of a death effect—that the value of a creative work tends to increase after the creato...
Two experiments tested the hypothesis that evaluations of the dead are more resistant to change than...
In this article, we examine the temporary and long-term consequences of the death of a parent or chi...
This study explored the effect that mortality salience, both death and imminent death, had on life g...
The effect of life events on subjective well-being (SWB) was explored in a 2-year longitudinal study...
In correspondence with terror management theory, the findings of two experiments show that reminders...
Previous research reveals that issues of existence may contribute to a protective kind of perception...
To assess whether degree of belief in afterlife enhanced bereavement recovery following different ty...
Three studies examined the relation of subjective well-being to the organization and retrieval of va...
One hundred eight college students (Study 1) and 109 elderly adults (Study 2) rated 28 health impair...
This paper assesses the impact of disturbing life events over five years on the wellbeing of 340 peo...
Do people lose hope when thinking about death? Based on Terror Management Theory, we predicted that...
The authors investigated how filial bereavement affects the subjective well-being of adult children....
Although everyone would agree that bereavement is extremely stressful, surprisingly little is known ...
In correspondence with terror management theory, the findings of two experiments show that reminder...
The existence of a death effect—that the value of a creative work tends to increase after the creato...
Two experiments tested the hypothesis that evaluations of the dead are more resistant to change than...