Positive emotional language in the final words spoken directly before execution
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- Sarah Hirschmüller
- Boris Egloff
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- 1664-1078
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- Frontiers in psychology
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- 150 Psychologie
- 150 Psychology
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- eng
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- Art. 1985
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2016
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- Frontiers Research Foundation
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- http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01985
- Datum der Datenerfassung
- 2020
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- 2020
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- Titel
- Positive emotional language in the final words spoken directly before execution
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- 6
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- Autoren
- Sarah Hirschmueller
- Boris Egloff
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- 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01985
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- Clarivate Analytics Document Solution ID: DA7TY
- PubMed Identifier: 26793135
- ISSN
- 1664-1078
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- FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
- Schlüsselwörter
- mortality salience
- language use
- quantitative text analysis
- emotional positivity
- terror management
- Artikelnummer
- ARTN 1985
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2016
- Status
- Published
- Titel
- Positive Emotional Language in the Final Words Spoken Directly Before Execution
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- Article
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 6
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- Autoren
- Sarah Hirschmüller
- Boris Egloff
- DOI
- 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01985
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- 1664-1078
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- Frontiers in Psychology
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- 2016
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- http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01985
- Datum der Datenerfassung
- 2017
- Titel
- Positive Emotional Language in the Final Words Spoken Directly Before Execution
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 6
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- Abstract
- How do individuals emotionally cope with the imminent real-world salience of mortality? DeWall and Baumeister as well as Kashdan and colleagues previously provided support that an increased use of positive emotion words serves as a way to protect and defend against mortality salience of one's own contemplated death. Although these studies provide important insights into the psychological dynamics of mortality salience, it remains an open question how individuals cope with the immense threat of mortality prior to their imminent actual death. In the present research, we therefore analyzed positivity in the final words spoken immediately before execution by 407 death row inmates in Texas. By using computerized quantitative text analysis as an objective measure of emotional language use, our results showed that the final words contained a significantly higher proportion of positive than negative emotion words. This emotional positivity was significantly higher than (a) positive emotion word usage base rates in spoken and written materials and (b) positive emotional language use with regard to contemplated death and attempted or actual suicide. Additional analyses showed that emotional positivity in final statements was associated with a greater frequency of language use that was indicative of self-references, social orientation, and present-oriented time focus as well as with fewer instances of cognitive-processing, past-oriented, and death-related word use. Taken together, our findings offer new insights into how individuals cope with the imminent real-world salience of mortality.
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- Department of Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Mainz, Germany.
- Autoren
- Sarah Hirschmüller
- Boris Egloff
- DOI
- 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01985
- eISSN
- 1664-1078
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- PubMed Identifier: 26793135
- PubMed Central ID: PMC4710806
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- Datum der Datenerfassung
- 2016
- Titel
- Positive Emotional Language in the Final Words Spoken Directly Before Execution.
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- research-article
- Journal Article
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 6
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- Abstract
- How do individuals emotionally cope with the imminent real-world salience of mortality? DeWall and Baumeister as well as Kashdan and colleagues previously provided support that an increased use of positive emotion words serves as a way to protect and defend against mortality salience of one's own contemplated death. Although these studies provide important insights into the psychological dynamics of mortality salience, it remains an open question how individuals cope with the immense threat of mortality prior to their imminent actual death. In the present research, we therefore analyzed positivity in the final words spoken immediately before execution by 407 death row inmates in Texas. By using computerized quantitative text analysis as an objective measure of emotional language use, our results showed that the final words contained a significantly higher proportion of positive than negative emotion words. This emotional positivity was significantly higher than (a) positive emotion word usage base rates in spoken and written materials and (b) positive emotional language use with regard to contemplated death and attempted or actual suicide. Additional analyses showed that emotional positivity in final statements was associated with a greater frequency of language use that was indicative of self-references, social orientation, and present-oriented time focus as well as with fewer instances of cognitive-processing, past-oriented, and death-related word use. Taken together, our findings offer new insights into how individuals cope with the imminent real-world salience of mortality.
- Date of acceptance
- 2015
- Autoren
- Sarah Hirschmüller
- Boris Egloff
- Autoren-URL
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26793135
- DOI
- 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01985
- Externe Identifier
- PubMed Central ID: PMC4710806
- ISSN
- 1664-1078
- Zeitschrift
- Front Psychol
- Schlüsselwörter
- emotional positivity
- language use
- mortality salience
- quantitative text analysis
- terror management
- Sprache
- eng
- Country
- Switzerland
- Paginierung
- 1985
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2015
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- Published online
- Datum, an dem der Datensatz öffentlich gemacht wurde
- 2016
- Titel
- Positive Emotional Language in the Final Words Spoken Directly Before Execution.
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- Journal Article
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 6
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- Autoren
- Sarah Hirschmüller
- Boris Egloff
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- Universitätsbibliothek Mainz
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- 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01985
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- DFG, Open Access-Publizieren Universität Mainz / Universitätsmedizin
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- 150 Psychologie
- 150 Psychology
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- eng
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- Open Access
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- Art. 1985
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- 2016
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- https://openscience.ub.uni-mainz.de/handle/20.500.12030/7389
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- Frontiers Research Foundation
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- http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01985
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- 2022
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- 2022
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- Titel
- Positive emotional language in the final words spoken directly before execution
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
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