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Curiosity enhances the role of mindfulness in reducing defensive responses to existential threat
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- 자료유형학술지논문
- 저자명Kashdan, T. B.,Afram, A.,Brown, K. W.,Birnbeck, M.,Drvoshanov, M.
- 학회/출판사/기관명Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam
- 출판년도2011
- 언어영어
- 학술지명/학위논문주기Personality and individual differences
- 발행사항Vol.50No.8[2011]_x000D_
- ISBN/ISSN0191-8869
- 소개/요약Using a terror management theory paradigm, the present research assessed whether people characterized by both an attitude of curiosity, as well as mindful attention, would exhibit non-defensive reactions to targets that threaten their worldview. Participants (N = 118) were randomly assigned to an existential threat (mortality salience) condition or a control condition then asked to read an essay describing humans as just another animal or an essay describing the uniqueness of humans. Participants higher in both curiosity and mindful attention responded non-defensively, rating the humans as animals essay writer as likeable and intelligent, with a valid opinion. Participants who were high in mindfulness but low in curiosity responded defensively, with negative judgments of the essay writer. Mindlessness (endorsing low curiosity and mindful attention) also mitigated defensive responding. Although mindful and mindless people both showed non-defensive reactions, we theorize about distinct causal paths. Results suggest that curiosity plays
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