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Mortality salience and prejudice towards ethno-religion minorities: Results and implications of a Nigerian study

Published in: Journal of Psychology in Africa
Volume 27 , issue 5 , 2017 , pages: 420–426

DOI: 10.1080/14330237.2017.1347773

Author(s): Valentine C. Ezeh Department of Psychology, Nigeria , Philip C. Mefoh Department of Psychology, Nigeria , Samson K. Nwonyi Department of Psychology, Nigeria , Joseph C. Aliche Department of Psychology, Nigeria

Keywords: Hausas , Igbos , mortality salience , prejudice

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Abstract

The present study examined mortality salience (MS) effect on prejudice towards an ethno-religion minority group of Northern Nigeria. Participants were 120 undergraduate students (females = 41.67%) with an age range between 17 and 38 years. The students completed a Distance-(relationship)-Situation (DS) measure under alternative conditions: with MS priming and a control condition. Following a three-way mixed model ANOVA, results showed MS to predict prejudice across relationship situations of secret disclosure, business partnership, and cooperating to get a task done. Consistent with terror management theory, MS effects on ethno-cultural prejudice expression apply across relationship situations.

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