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Hopelessly Mortal: The Role of Mortality Salience, Immortality and Trait Self-esteem in Personal Hope [PDF]

, 2015
Do people lose hope when thinking about death? Based on Terror Management Theory, we predicted that thoughts of death (i.e., mortality salience) would reduce personal hope for people low, but not high, in self-esteem, and that this reduction in hope ...
Arnaud Wisman, Heflick N. A., Jetten J., Nathan A. Heflick, Rosenberg M., Sedikides C., Solomon S., Winzeler R. L., Wisman A., Wisman A.   +9 more
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Death salience moderates the effect of trauma on religiosity [PDF]

, 2019
Objective: Previous research has shown contradictory evidence for the relationship between religiosity and trauma; exposure to traumatic life events has been associated with both increases and decreases in religiosity over time.
Bluemke, Matthias, Halberstadt, Jamin, Jong, Jonathan, Morris Trainor, Zoe   +3 more
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The Impact of Topic Characteristics and Threat on Willingness to Engage with Wikipedia Articles: Insights from Laboratory Experiments

Frontiers in Psychology, 2017
A growing body of research aims to identify the factors that motivate people to make contributions in Wikipedia. We conducted two laboratory experiments to investigate the connections between topic characteristics, perception of threat, and willingness ...
Seren Yenikent, Peter Holtz, Joachim Kimmerle, Joachim Kimmerle   +3 more
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Empathy, Social Dominance Orientation, Mortality Salience, and Perceptions of a Criminal Defendant

SAGE Open, 2016
In two studies, participants completed measures of trait empathy and social dominance orientation, read a summary of a hit and run trial, and provided reactions to the case.
Donna Crawley, Richard Suarez
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Mindfulness of Death as a Tool for Mortality Salience Induction with Reference to Terror Management Theory

Religions, 2019
In this article, I argue that “mindfulness of death” (maraṇasati) can be a tool to induce mortality salience and can have a positive psychological impact.
Hyun Gong Moon
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The Embodied Reader and Experiential Death

Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry, 2023
Narratives being the cornerstone of societal development will never go out of fashion. The act of reading will naturally be a part of highly developed cognitive beings. In this paper, the ideal reader is replaced by the embodied reader.
Sree Sakthi Prem, P.T. Selvi Kohila
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Socioeconomic differences in attitudes and beliefs about healthy lifestyles [PDF]

, 2003
Study objectives: The factors underlying socioeconomic status differences in smoking, leisure time physical activity, and dietary choice are poorly understood.
Steptoe, A, Wardle, J
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The Great Escape: The Role of Self-esteem and Self-related Cognition in Terror Management [PDF]

, 2015
Integrating terror management theory and objective self-awareness theory, we propose the existential escape hypothesis, which states that people with low self-esteem should be especially prone to escaping self-awareness as a distal response to thoughts
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Investigating the Role of Normative Support in Atheists’ Perceptions of Meaning Following Reminders of Death

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
According to terror management theory, humans rely on meaningful and permanence-promising cultural worldviews, like religion, to manage mortality concerns. Prior research indicates that, compared to religious individuals, atheists experience lower levels
Melissa Soenke, Kenneth E. Vail, Jeff Greenberg   +2 more
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Testing the TEBOTS model in self-threatening situations: The role of narratives in the face of ostracism and mortality

Frontiers in Communication, 2022
The TEBOTS model predicts that narratives are sought after more often in times of depletion. The present study aimed at expanding this idea by testing whether engagement with narratives is also intensified under self-threatening conditions.
Diana Rieger, Frank M. Schneider
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