Belief in life after death offers potential comfort in the face of inevitable death. However, afterlife belief likely requires not only an awareness of death but also body-self dualismthe perception that the self (e.g., the mind) is distinct from the physical, undeniably mortal, body. In turn, we hypothesized that mortality salience (MS) should heighten afterlife belief only when dualism is facilitated. Study 1 found that MS increased belief for people high, relative to low, in trait mind-body dualism. In Study 2, MS only increased belief when people first wrote about their thoughts and personality, which a pilot study confirmed facilitated dualistic belief, relative to thinking about the physical self. Study 3 used the brain-computer interface technology to induce a dualistic experience: MS increased belief when participants accurately typed without the use of their external body (i.e., no hands). Together, these findings support the position that mortality awareness and body-self dualism constitute a why and how of afterlife belief. Copyright (c) 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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机译：面对不可避免的死亡，相信死后的生活可以提供潜在的安慰。然而，来世的信仰可能不仅需要了解死亡，而且还需要身体与自我的二元论-即自我（例如，思想）与肉体，不可否认的肉体不同的看法。反过来，我们假设只有在促进二元论的情况下，死亡率显着性（MS）才能提高来世信念。研究1发现，MS增强了高质者对低质者的身心认同。在研究2中，MS仅在人们最初写下他们的思想和个性时才增强信仰，而一项初步研究证实，相对于对身体自我的思考，MS促进了二元信念。研究3使用脑机接口技术来引发双重体验：当参与者在不使用其外部身体（即没有手）的情况下准确打字时，MS会增强信心。总之，这些发现支持了这样的观点，即死亡率意识和身体自我二元性构成了来世信仰的原因和方式。版权所有（c）2015 John Wiley＆Sons，Ltd.
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