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AbstractSupport for presidential candidate Donald Trump increased in the aftermath of the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris, France, and San Bernardino, California, similar to Americans' greater enthusiasm for President George W. Bush after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center. According to terror management theory (Greenberg, Pyszczynski, & Solomon; Solomon, Greenberg, & Pyszczynski), people are prone to embrace charismatic politicians in times of historical upheaval to mitigate existential terror. Consistent with this view, previous research has demonstrated that reminders of death (relative to an aversive control condition) increased support for a charismatic leader in a hypothetical gubernatorial election, and support for President Bush and his policies in Iraq prior to the 2004 presidential election. The present Study 1 hypothesized and found that a death reminder increased support for Donald Trump. Study 2 found that while Hillary Clinton was viewed more favorably than Donald Trump in an aversive control condition, Mr. Trump was viewed more favorably in response to a death reminder while impressions of Mrs. Clinton were unaffected. Study 3 demonstrated that asking people to think about immigrants moving into their neighborhood increased the accessibility of implicit death thoughts. These findings suggest that electoral outcomes and public policy can be affected when existential concerns are aroused.

"Der vorliegende Aufsatz berichtet über das Forschungsprogramm der Autoren, das einige der Ursachen und Konsequenzen des Antisemitismus unter der Perspektive eines neuen theoretischen Modells untersucht, das in Form von sechs Experimenten getestet wurde. Das Modell nimmt an, dass Antisemitismus durch Mortalitäts-Salienz verstärkt wird und dass sich Antisemitismus häufig als Feindseligkeit gegenüber Israel manifestiert. Die Ergebnisse zeigen in Übereinstimmung mit ihren Vorhersagen, dass existentiellen Ängste zu verstärktem Antisemitismus und verringerter Unterstützung Israels führen. Insgesamt können diese Ergebnisse als ein vorläufiger Beitrag zur Erklärung der Kontinuität des Antisemitismus dienen." (Autorenreferat)

Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Part 1 The Situation in the United States -- Chapter 1 How to Interpret American Poll Data on Jews, Israel and Antisemitism -- Chapter 2 Esau Hates Jacob: What's New About the New Antisemitism? -- Chapter 3 My Assessment of American Antisemitism Today -- Chapter 4 Religion, Theology and American Antisemitism -- Chapter 5 The Growth of Anti-Israeli Sentiment in the American Intellectual Community: Some Cautionary Tales -- Chapter 6 The Modern Antisemitism-Israel Model (MASIM): Empirical Studies of North American Antisemitism -- Part 2 Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean -- Chapter 7 Antisemitism in Mexico and Latin America: Recurrences and Changes -- Chapter 8 Antisemitism-Canadian Style -- Chapter 9 Teaching Islamic Antisemitism in Toronto -- Chapter 10 Where Have All the Caribbean Jews Gone? -- Chapter 11 Reflections on Crypto-Jews in North America -- Part 3 Fighting Antisemitism in North America -- Chapter 12 Antisemitism and Law -- Chapter 13 Holocaust Denial in North America -- Chapter 14 Antisemitism in North American Higher Education -- Chapter 15 The Role of the ADL: Past and Present -- Part 4 Antisemitism and Hollywood -- Chapter 16 When Hollywood Was Scared to Depict Antisemitism, It Made 'Gentleman's Agreement' -- Chapter 17 Antisemitism in Hollywood: An Endangered Species List -- Concluding Remarks -- Addendum -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

An experiment was conducted to assess the effect of a subtle reminder of death on voting intentions for the 2004 U.S. presidential election. On the basis of terror management theory and previous research, we hypothesized that a mortality salience induction would increase support for President George W. Bush and decrease support for Senator John Kerry. In late September 2004, following a mortality salience or control induction, registered voters were asked which candidate they intended to vote for. In accord with predictions, Senator John Kerry received substantially more votes than George Bush in the control condition, but Bush was favored over Kerry following a reminder of death, suggesting that President Bush's re‐election may have been facilitated by nonconscious concerns about mortality in the aftermath of September 11, 2001.

An experiment was conducted to assess the effect of a subtle reminder of death on voting intentions for the 2004 U.S. presidential election. On the basis of terror management theory & previous research, we hypothesized that a mortality salience induction would increase support for President George W. Bush & decrease support for Senator John Kerry. In late September 2004, following a mortality salience or control induction, registered voters were asked which candidate they intended to vote for. In accord with predictions, Senator John Kerry received substantially more votes than George Bush in the control condition, but Bush was favored over Kerry following a reminder of death, suggesting that President Bush's re-election may have been facilitated by nonconscious concerns about mortality in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. Tables, References. Adapted from the source document.

Frontmatter --Table of Contents --Preface and Acknowledgements --Confronting Antisemitism from the Perspectives of Philosophy and Social Sciences: Introduction --Assessment of Antisemitism --Antisemitism: National or Transnational Constellation? --Quantifying Antisemitic Attitudes in Britain: The "Elastic" View of Antisemitism --The Contribution of Religious Education to the Prevention of Antisemitism: An International Empirical Study --The Circumcision Debate in Germany in 2012 and its Impacts on Europe --"To Make the World a Better Place": Giving Moral Advice to the Jewish State as a Manifestation of Self-Legitimized Antisemitism among Leftist Intellectuals --Contours of Workplace Antisemitism: Initial Thoughts and a Research Agenda --The Transmission of Hatred and the Hatred of Transmission: The Psychopathology of a Murder and an Anatomy of a Silence. The Nobody's Name: A Contemporary Symptom --Modern Antisemitism: A Psychological Understanding of the BDS Movement --Theoretic Reflections on Antisemitism --Antisemitism and Related Expressions of Prejudice in a Global World: A View from Latin America --The Phantasm of the Jew in French Philosophy: From Jean-Paul Sartre to Alain Badiou --Does Islam Fuel Antisemitism? --On the Ethical Implications and Political Costs of Misinterpreting and Abusing the Notion "Anti-Semitism" --The Politics and Ethics of Anti-Antisemitism: Lessons from the Frankfurt School --Education about Antisemitism and Teaching Ways to Combat It --Does Learning about Genocide Impact the Values of Young People? A Case Study from Scotland --Challenging Antisemitism: A Pedagogical Approach in a Norwegian School --Overcoming Antisemitic Biases in Christian Religious Education --The Study of Antisemitism in the Modern Jewish and Judaic Studies Context --"Antisemitism From Its Origins to the Present": An Online Video Course by Yad Vashem --Editorial Board --List of Contributors --Acknowledgements