%0 Journal Article
%T The Effect of Death Anxiety on Attitudes towards Muslims in the UK: A Terror Management Theory Perspective
%A Kenan Sevin£¿
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%D 2019
%X The United Kingdom is one of the countries with the highest Muslim population in Europe and in the UK, negative attitudes and discrimination against Muslims are increasing in parallel with the rise of far right in all around Europe. There are many different psychological reasons for negative attitudes towards foreigners and especially towards Muslims. Terror Management Theory claims that one of these reasons is the mortality salience. According to the theory, human with a strong motivation to survive knows that one day all his efforts will fail and he will die. This creates a death anxiety. In order to get rid of this anxiety, the individual turns his face to his culture or world view and begins to defend it strongly. Individuals, whose deaths are reminded, develop prejudice or develop negative attitudes toward other cultures, ie, outgroups or towards their members, when they turn to their own culture to deal with the anxiety. In order to test this claim, an experiment was conducted with participation of 50 people in the UK in 2018. The participants were divided into two groups as experimental and control groups. In order to examine the effect of the mortality salience on the attitudes towards Muslims, the experimental group was shown a video about death, and then, both groups were asked questions that measured attitudes towards Muslims. As a result of the experiment, it has been found that the attitudes of participants (experimental group) to whom the death was reminded, towards Muslims are more negative than the attitudes of other participants (control group)
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%U http://dergipark.org.tr/da/issue/45758/530472