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Terror Management Theory and the COVID-19 Pandemic. [PDF]

J Humanist Psychol, 2021
Pyszczynski T, Lockett M, Greenberg J, Solomon S.   +3 more
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Social-coalitional trait is related to coping capacity with mortality threat: association with leadership and a reduced parietal response to mortality salience

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, Kanan Hirano, Kentaro Oba, Toshiki Saito, Toshiki Saito, Ryuta Kawashima, Motoaki Sugiura, Motoaki Sugiura   +7 more
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Cultural Management of Terror and Worry During the COVID-19 Pandemic: How Religiosity and a Dream of Human Solidarity Help the Polish People Cope

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, Łukasz Miciuk, Oleg Gorbaniuk, Przemysław Gut, Anna Karczmarczyk   +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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When the reaper becomes a salesman: The influence of terror management on product preferences [PDF]

, 2015
The present research investigates how consumer choice is affected by Terror Management Theory’s proposition of Mortality Salience increasing one’s cultural worldview defense and self-esteem striving.
O'Dwyer, C., Poletiek, F., Van Bommel, T., Zuidgeest, T.   +3 more
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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, Haiying Wei, Lu Meng, Yaxuan Ran   +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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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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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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How healthcare workers respond to COVID-19: The role of vulnerability and social support in a close relationships defense mechanism

Acta Psychologica, 2021
Healthcare workers play a vital role in the fight against COVID-19. Based on Terror Management Theory (TMT), the present research examined whether a close relationships defense mechanism reduces anxiety among healthcare workers (N = 729) in China.
Yunjiao Chen, Xuyun Tan, Cai Xing, Jiaren Zheng   +3 more
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