Are You Smarter Than a Cetacean?: Death Reminders and Concerns About Human Intelligence

Autor:	Florette Cohen, Uri Lifshin, Melissa Soenke, Jeff Greenberg
Rok vydání:	2018
Předmět:	Sociology and Political Science General Veterinary Human intelligence 05 social sciences Applied psychology Mortality salience 050109 social psychology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Terror management theory Psychology human activities 050105 experimental psychology
Zdroj:	Society & Animals. 26:469-489
ISSN:	1568-5306
DOI:	10.1163/15685306-12341553
Popis:	Terror management theory and research indicate that humans cope with concerns about mortality by believing we are more than nonhuman animals. The current studies investigated whether this motivation plays a role in believing humans are more intelligent than other animals. Study 1 had participants think about mortality or another unpleasant topic. The study found that after the death reminder, participants had more negative reactions to a scientific article describing dolphins as smarter than humans, but not to an article that merely focused on dolphins’ intelligence. Study 2 had participants read an article about dolphins being smarter than humans or an article describing dolphin intelligence without a comparison to humans. Participants then completed a measure that assessed how close to consciousness thoughts of death were. Those who read that dolphins were smarter than humans exhibited higher levels of death-related thought. These results may have important implications for conserving intelligent animal species.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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