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Terror Management in a Multicultural Society: Effects of Mortality Salience on Attitudes to Multiculturalism Are Moderated by National Identification and Self-Esteem Among Native Dutch People. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2018 These two datasets formed the basis of the article: Tjew-A-Sin, M., & Koole, S. (2018). Terror Management in a Multicultural Society: Effects of Mortality Salience on Attitudes to Multiculturalism are Moderated by National Identification and Self-Esteem ...
Tjew-A-Sin M, Koole SL.
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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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Climate change risk and terror management theory
, 2022 Being intrinsically associated with death-related themes (e.g. decay, destruction, lack of control, chaos), communicating climate change risks may elicit thoughts in an audience about their own mortality–potentially invoking terror management responses ...
Priyanka A. Naidu +5 more
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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
Heflick, Nathan A +2 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 +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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A blast from the past: the terror management function of nostalgia [PDF]
, 2008 According to terror management theory, people turn to meaning-providing structures to cope with the knowledge of inevitable mortality. Recent theory and research suggest that nostalgia is a meaning-providing resource and thus may serve such an ...
Arndt, A. +3 more
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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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