60 undergraduates scoring high or low on a belief-in-afterlife (BA) scale were exposed to a death threat, shock threat, or control treatment. Only the high believers exposed to death threat showed an increase in score on an alternate BA scale; the scores of the other 5 groups remained unchanged. Results could not be attributed to anxiety alone, since self-ratings on anxiety did not differ between the death threat and the shock threat groups, although they were higher for these groups than for the control groups. Results are interpreted as confirming the hypothesis that strong BA may moderate death anxiety. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)