Einn með dauðanum: Áhrif útilokunar á tilvistarótta

Miðvikudaginn 2. apríl heldur David Kidd frá sálfræðideild New School of Social Research í New York fyrirlestur með heitinu: Einn með dauðanum: Áhrif útilokunar á tilvistarótta

 

Útdráttur: Á grundvelli hugmynda mannfræðingsins Ernest Becker (1973) setti hópur sálfræðinga fram þá hugmynd um 1990 að margt í félagslegri hegðun mannsins megi rekja til þess að fólk sé að verja sig gegn tilvistaróttanum sem fylgir því að vera meðvitaður um eigin forgengileika (Greenberg og félagar, 1990, Rosenblatt og félagar, 1989). Kenningin, nefnd Óttastjórnunarkenningin (e. Terror Management Theory) er nú meðal mest rannsökuðu og umdeildustu kenningum innan félagslegrar sálfræði. Í þessum fyrirlestri mun David Kidd fara stuttlega yfir sögu Óttastjórnunarkenningarinnar og síðan greina frá nýjum rannsóknum sínum á mikilvægi sambanda okkar við annað fólk til þess að halda óttanum við dauðann í skefjum og slæmum áhrifum þess að vera útilokuð frá öðrum.

 

Fyrirlesturinn fer fram á ensku.

 

 

The Psychology Department announces a lecture on Wednesday, April 2 at 12pm. Room 225 in Main building (Aðalbygging).

 

David Kidd from the Psychology Department at the New School of Social Research in New York gives the following lecture: Alone with Death: The effects of ostracism on existential terror.

 

Abstract: Drawing from the work of the anthropologist Ernest Becker (1973), a team of psychologists in the early 1990s proposed that much of human social behavior serves to buffer the existential terror associated with awareness of our own mortality (Greenberg et al., 1990; Rosenblatt et al., 1989). Referred to as Terror Management Theory (TMT), this theory posits that we cope with the anxiety induced by our eventual deaths by adhering to a meaningful and stable cultural worldview and seeking to affirm our worth according to its values. TMT has garnered empirical support from hundreds of studies and provided insights into phenomena ranging from politically motivated violence to attachment in close relationships (Burke, Martens, & Faucher, 2010). Research motivated by TMT has also shown that social identities that are seen as lasting and meaningful provide a sense of immortality to those who hold them, demonstrating the importance of social identities to tempering existential terror (Castano & Dechesne, 2005). Additional research shows that an instance of social ostracism (being rejected by a group) leads to elevated accessibility of death-related thoughts (Steel, Kidd, & Castano, in press). Combined, these lines of research underscore the importance of social relationships in managing existential terror, and they may help to explain the intensity of both the need to belong and the pain of rejection.