The Meaning of Life and Death in the Eyes of Frankl: Archetypal and Terror Management Perspectives [PDF]
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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An Appreciative View of the Brighter Side of Terror Management Processes [PDF]
Social Sciences, 2015 Physical death is an inevitable part of life. From the perspective of terror management theory (TMT), people’s efforts to manage the awareness of death can sometimes have harmful social consequences.
Kenneth E. Vail, III, Jacob Juhl
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Applying terror management theory to patients with life-threatening illness: a systematic review [PDF]
BMC Palliative Care, 2023 Background Terror management theory (TMT) posits that people manage death-related anxiety through the meaning provided by their cultural world-views and the sense of personal value provided by self-esteem. While a large body of research has supported the
Mark Svet +4 more
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Social curiosity as a way to overcome death anxiety: perspective of terror management theory [PDF]
Heliyon, 2020 Social curiosity has been found to have great benefits in human life, especially in fostering interpersonal relationships. Nevertheless there is indication of other benefit of social curiosity that have not yet been explored, namely overcoming the ...
Rani Agias Fitri +2 more
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Prosocial Behaviors Following Mortality Salience: The Role of Global-Local Identity [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesThis research examines how reminders of mortality influence prosocial behavior through the lens of terror management theory. We propose that these effects depend on individuals’ global–local identity—the degree to which they identify with the broader ...
Bo Chen
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[Coronavirus: Predictive brain and terror management]. [PDF]
Encephale, 2020 Emerging infectious diseases like Covid-19 cause a major threat to global health. When confronted with new pathogens, individuals generate several beliefs about the epidemic phenomenon. Many studies have shown that individual protective behaviors largely depend on these beliefs.
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Terror management after a recent suicide att empt [PDF]
Psychology in Russia: State of Art, 2012 Suicide is a controversial phenomenon that people of different cultures and evenof different epochs have had difficulty naming. It used to be an enduring themeof many medical, psychological, philosophical, and moralistic discussions.
Sergey N. Enikolopov +1 more
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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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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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