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	Terror Management Experiment	Emotion Appraisal in Politics
Field	Political Psychology	Political Psychology
Family	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Year of origin	1990	2000
Originator	Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski & Sheldon Solomon	George Marcus, Russell Neuman & Michael MacKuen; Ted Brader
Type	Lab experiment	Survey/lab experiment
Seminal source	Greenberg, J., Pyszczynski, T., Solomon, S., Rosenblatt, A., Veeder, M., Kirkland, S., & Lyon, D. (1990). Evidence for terror management theory II: The effects of mortality salience on reactions to those who threaten or bolster the cultural worldview. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 58(2), 308-318.	Marcus, G. E., Neuman, W. R., & MacKuen, M. (2000). Affective intelligence and political judgment. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 9780226504698
Aliases	Mortality Salience Experiment, TMT Experiment, Death-Thought Accessibility Study	Affective Intelligence Experiment, Political Emotion Appraisal Study, Discrete Emotions Politics Measure
Related	4	4
Summary	A terror management experiment tests terror management theory (TMT), which holds that awareness of one's own mortality creates potential anxiety that people manage by defending their cultural worldview and self-esteem. The canonical mortality-salience paradigm (Greenberg et al., 1990) experimentally reminds participants of death and measures increased worldview defense, such as harsher judgments of out-groups and stronger ingroup and political allegiance.	Emotion appraisal in politics studies how distinct emotions, anxiety, anger, enthusiasm, and others, arise from cognitive appraisals of political events and in turn shape attention, information seeking, persuasion, and participation. It combines appraisal theory with affective intelligence theory (Marcus, Neuman and MacKuen, 2000) and Brader's (2006) work on emotional campaign appeals, typically measured through experiments and surveys that elicit and analyze discrete emotional responses.