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work_4aonqik7qrdfhdhiagta73bi6q	Mark J. Landau	Windows into nothingness: Terror management, meaninglessness, and negative reactions to modern art	2006.0	14	.pdf	application/pdf	12772	917	55	Therefore, mortality salience should decrease liking for apparently meaningless art, particularly among those predisposed to unambiguous knowledge. Keywords: terror management, meaning, art, aesthetic judgments, need for structure four studies that investigate whether mortality concerns and individual differences in personal need for structure (PNS) contribute manage mortality concerns through investment in an individualized version of a cultural meaning system coupled with the sustained conviction of personal worth and significance. that only relatively high-PNS individuals would devalue seemingly meaningless modern art under conditions of mortality salience. The mortality salience treatment (Rosenblatt, Greenberg, Solomon, Pyszczynski, & Lyon, 1989) consisted of two open-ended questions: "Please briefly describe the emotions that the thought of your own high-PNS participants liked modern art less (M � 5.8, SD � 1.46) In short, we hypothesized that mortality salient high-PNS participants would dislike a seemingly meaningless artwork but not Study 2, mortality salient high-PNS participants liked the untitled chaotic, meaningless piece; mortality salient high-PNS participants	./cache/work_4aonqik7qrdfhdhiagta73bi6q.pdf	./txt/work_4aonqik7qrdfhdhiagta73bi6q.txt