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

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 .