Gutenberg Open Science: Positive emotional language in the final words spoken directly before execution

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dc.contributor.author	Hirschmüller, Sarah	-
dc.contributor.author	Egloff, Boris	-
dc.date.accessioned	2022-07-12T08:47:28Z	-
dc.date.available	2022-07-12T08:47:28Z	-
dc.date.issued	2016
dc.identifier.uri	https://openscience.ub.uni-mainz.de/handle/20.500.12030/7389	-
dc.description.abstract	How do individuals emotionally cope with the imminent real-world salience of mortality? DeWall and Baumeister as well as Kashdan and colleagues previously provided support that an increased use of positive emotion words serves as a way to protect and defend against mortality salience of one's own contemplated death. Although these studies provide important insights into the psychological dynamics of mortality salience, it remains an open question how individuals cope with the immense threat of mortality prior to their imminent actual death. In the present research, we therefore analyzed positivity in the final words spoken immediately before execution by 407 death row inmates in Texas. By using computerized quantitative text analysis as an objective measure of emotional language use, our results showed that the final words contained a significantly higher proportion of positive than negative emotion words. This emotional positivity was significantly higher than (a) positive emotion word usage base rates in spoken and written materials and (b) positive emotional language use with regard to contemplated death and attempted or actual suicide. Additional analyses showed that emotional positivity in final statements was associated with a greater frequency of language use that was indicative of self-references, social orientation, and present-oriented time focus as well as with fewer instances of cognitive-processing, past-oriented, and death-related word use. Taken together, our findings offer new insights into how individuals cope with the imminent real-world salience of mortality.	en_GB
dc.description.sponsorship	DFG, Open Access-Publizieren Universität Mainz / Universitätsmedizin	de
dc.language.iso	eng	de
dc.rights	CC BY	*
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/	*
dc.subject.ddc	150 Psychologie	de_DE
dc.subject.ddc	150 Psychology	en_GB
dc.title	Positive emotional language in the final words spoken directly before execution	en_GB
dc.type	Zeitschriftenaufsatz	de
dc.identifier.doi	http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-7375	-
jgu.type.dinitype	article	en_GB
jgu.type.version	Published version	de
jgu.type.resource	Text	de
jgu.organisation.department	FB 02 Sozialwiss., Medien u. Sport	de
jgu.organisation.number	7910	-
jgu.organisation.name	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz	-
jgu.rights.accessrights	openAccess	-
jgu.journal.title	Frontiers in psychology	de
jgu.journal.volume	6	de
jgu.pages.alternative	Art. 1985	de
jgu.publisher.year	2016	-
jgu.publisher.name	Frontiers Research Foundation	de
jgu.publisher.place	Lausanne	de
jgu.publisher.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01985	de
jgu.publisher.issn	1664-1078	de
jgu.organisation.place	Mainz	-
jgu.identifier.pmid	26793135
jgu.subject.ddccode	150	de
opus.date.modified	2018-08-22T09:54:16Z
opus.subject.dfgcode	00-000
opus.organisation.string	FB 02: Sozialwissenschaften, Medien und Sport: Psychologisches Institut	de_DE
opus.identifier.opusid	53208
opus.importsource	pubmed
opus.institute.number	0204
opus.metadataonly	false
opus.type.contenttype	Keine	de_DE
opus.type.contenttype	None	en_EN
opus.affiliated	Hirschmüller, Sarah
opus.affiliated	Egloff, Boris
jgu.publisher.doi	10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01985	de
jgu.organisation.ror	https://ror.org/023b0x485
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