@article{5dc885d21dd74d8f8474f5c0fe647e70,
title = "It{\textquoteright}s the End of the World and I Feel Fine: Soul Belief and Perceptions of End-of-the-World Scenarios",
abstract = "Five studies tested the effects that soul beliefs have on reactions to end-of-the-world scenarios. In Studies 1 and 2, participants who firmly believe in an immortal soul showed less resistance to an article predicting the end of humanity than those without such belief. However, in Studies 3 to 5, thoughts of symbolic immortality made soul believers more resistant to scientific evidence predicting the end of humanity. These results suggest that belief in an immortal soul provides psychological protection against the threat of humanity{\textquoteright}s demise that does not hold for symbolic immortality beliefs.",
keywords = "end of the world, global warming, immortality, religion, soul",
author = "Uri Lifshin and Jeff Greenberg and David Weise and Melissa Soenke",
note = "Funding Information: The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was supported by the National Science Foundation (BCS-102537) and by the John Templeton Foundation. Funding Information: Thanks to John Martin Fischer, University of California–Riverside, the John Templeton Foundation, and the National Science Foundation for their support of this project. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015, {\textcopyright} 2015 by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc.",
year = "2016",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1177/0146167215616800",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "42",
pages = "104--117",
journal = "Personality and social psychology bulletin",
issn = "0146-1672",
publisher = "SAGE Publications Inc.",
number = "1",
}