Exposure to the Death of Others during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Growing Mistrust in Medical Institutions as a Result of Personal Loss.
Brian J GullyHayley Treloar PadovanoSamantha E ClarkGabriel J MuroMollie A MonnigPublished in: Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) (2023)
Our results offer some conflicting evidence to the mortality salience hypothesis. Rather than entrench people in their worldviews, death in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic appeared to sway people away from their initial stances. This finding has important implications for TMT literature and for the COVID-19 pandemic response.