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Existentialism and Death Education in Anime: A Micro and Macro Analysis of Cells at Work!
Journal of Anime and Manga Studies, 2021 As the 2020 global pandemic has demonstrated with new force, we continue to struggle with managing primal, existential fear, even during the ongoing struggle to understand and combat a deadly infectious disease.
Irene Iwasaki
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The Meaning of Life and Death in the Eyes of Frankl: Archetypal and Terror Management Perspectives
Europe's Journal of Psychology, 2021 This article aims to uncover the meaning of life and death across the lifespan of the extraordinary person, Viktor E. Frankl (1905–1997). Frankl was purposively sampled due to his international acclaim as an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, who ...
Claude-Hélène Mayer +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Mind upload, or the digital copying of an individual brain and mind, could theoretically allow one to “live forever.” If such a technology became available, who would be most likely to approve of it or condemn it?
Michael Laakasuo +7 more
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News About Terrorism and Attitudes Toward Countries: The Role of Mortality Salience and Intergroup Threat [PDF]
Psychology in Russia: State of Art, 2021 Background. Media reports on armed fights or terror attacks introduce reminders of death into people’s daily lives. When people feel non-specific threats (mortality salience) or specific threats (intergroup threats), they may demonstrate unfavorable ...
Irina S. Prusova, Olga A. Gulevich
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Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2023 IntroductionCoping with mortality threat, a psychological threat unique to humans and distinct from general emotional distress, is traditionally characterized by immediate suppression and prolonged worldview defense within the framework of the ...
Kanan Hirano +7 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic, which involves the threat of contracting a potentially fatal disease, can be understood as a source of terror. According to terror management theory, people shield themselves from terror by adopting culturally specific worldviews ...
Arkadiusz Gut +4 more
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The Roles of Self-Esteem and Attachment within the Framework of Terror Management Theory [PDF]
Psikiyatride Güncel Yaklaşımlar, 2019 Built upon the idea that human beings, as the only species whose members are aware of their own consciousness and future death, have to come up with a system to deal with this awareness, Terror Management theory aims to shed light on the mechanisms that ...
Volkan Koc, Gulnihal Kafa
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Believing in Karma: The Effect of Mortality Salience on Excessive Consumption
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 This research proposes that mortality salience leads individuals to engage in differentiation of excessive consumption based on their appraisal of the karmic system.
Siyun Chen +3 more
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Self‐compassion facilitates responsiveness to existential threat: A brief report
Mental Health Science, 2023 Terror management theory posits that validation of worldview and self‐esteem are primary defense mechanisms in keeping mortal concerns at bay, although potentially leading to the devaluation of others.
Zach Gerber, Lidar Gez, David Anaki
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No significant effect of mortality salience on unconscious ethnic bias among the Japanese
BMC Research Notes, 2023 Objective Terror management theory posits that when mortality is salient, individuals attempt to defend their cultural worldviews. Although numerous studies have confirmed this hypothesis, some recent studies have suggested that East Asians do not engage
Kai Otsubo, Hiroyuki Yamaguchi
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