Are we truly special and unique? A replication of Goldenberg (2001).

According to the mortality salience hypothesis of terror management theory, reminders of our future death increase the necessity to validate our cultural worldview and to enhance our self-esteem. In Experiment 2 of the study 'I am not an animal: Mortality salience, disgust, and the denial of human creatureliness', Goldenberg (Goldenberg 2001 , 427-435. (doi:10.