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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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MANAGING TERRORISM IN AFRICA [PDF]
Problems of Management in the 21st Century, 2021 Despite the different interpretations on the origins and a possible way to manage the Islamic terrorism in Africa, a thing is clear: this phenomenon gained importance in the last few years. Data of ACLED show that in 2015 Africa registered 381 attacks, which resulted in 1.394 fatalities; five years later the number increased to 7.108 attacks and 12.519
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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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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 +3 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 The current research examined the role of retributive justice and cost-benefit utility motivations in the process through which mortality salience increases support for violent responses to intergroup conflict.
Gilad eHirschberger +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 IntroductionUsing the morality salience paradigm, this research tested whether subliminal death stimuli lead to increased physical strength. Moreover, it was investigated if mindfulness and self-esteem instability influence terror management.MethodsIn ...
Christopher T. J. Bartenschlager +1 more
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Positive Emotional Language in the Final Words Spoken Directly Before Execution
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 How do individuals emotionally cope with the imminent real-world salience of mortality? DeWall and Baumeister as well as Kashdan and colleagues previously provided support that an increased use of positive emotion words serves as a way to protect and ...
Sarah eHirschmüller, Boris eEgloff
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