Krystal's grandmother died a few weeks ago. Since then Krystal finds that she is much more defensive about her political and religious views than she was before. This is likely because the death of Krystal's grandmother
A) increased her need to belong.
B) caused her to experience mortality salience.
C) acted as an anxiety buffer.
D) was a performance motive.
Answer: B
Rationale: Mortality salience is an increased awareness of death. In experiments, simply writing about death is enough to motivate individuals to increasingly defend their own worldview.
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