This focus might be helping Trump, since Solomon’s recent research shows that people who are thinking about death are more likely to say they support him. They rated participants’ support for Trump on a scale out of five points based on their answers to several questions. RelatedSolomon and his colleagues also have found that thinking about death makes charismatic, resolute leaders more appealing. The participants who had been asked to think about immigration had death on their minds, too – almost to the same extent as those who had been asked to think about death explicitly. Solomon and Cohen asked a small group of volunteers at the College of Staten Island to respond to one of three prompts.

Source: National Post May 28, 2016 05:26 UTC