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The Great Escape: The Role of Self-esteem and Self-related Cognition in Terror Management [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
Anderson   +114 more
core   +1 more source

Why Does Existential Threat Promote Intergroup Violence? Examining the Role of Retributive Justice and Cost-Benefit Utility Motivations

open access: yesFrontiers 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
doaj   +1 more source

Subliminal mortality salience does not increase physical strength output in double-blind randomized controlled trial

open access: yesFrontiers 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
doaj   +1 more source

Leymann Inventory of Psychological Terror Scale: Development and Validation for Portuguese Accounting Professionals

open access: yesEconomies, 2021
This research aims to adapt the Leymann Inventory of Psychological Terror and its use on Portuguese Accounting Professionals. Leymann scale was applied in a final sample of 478 accountants aged between 28 and 68, of which 47.5% were men and 52.5% women ...
Rui Silva   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Testing the causal relationship between religious belief and death anxiety [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Religion has long been speculated to function as a strategy to ameliorate our fear of death. Terror management theory provides two possible causal pathways through which religious beliefs can fulfil this function.
Bluemke, Matthias   +5 more
core   +2 more sources

Positive Emotional Language in the Final Words Spoken Directly Before Execution

open access: yesFrontiers 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
doaj   +1 more source

When sex doesn’t sell to men: Mortality salience, disgust and the appeal of products and advertisements featuring sexualized women [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Although men typically hold favorable views of advertisements featuring female sexuality, from a Terror Management Theory perspective, this should be less the case when thoughts of human mortality are salient.
Chun, Seungwoo   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Terror threat perception and its consequences in contemporary Britain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
The terrorist attacks of 9/11, and subsequent terrorist acts around the world, have alerted social psychologists to the need to examine the antecedents and consequences of terrorist threat perception. In these two studies we examined the predictive power
Gaines, SO, Goodwin, R, Wilson, M
core   +1 more source

EXERCISE UNDER DEATH-ANXIETY: INVESTIGATING INDIVIDUAL EXERCISE PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR FROM PERSPECTIVE OF TERROR MANAGEMENT AND BEHAVIORAL IMMUNE SYSTEM INTRODUCTION [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Applied Sports Sciences, 2020
The outbreak of COVID-19 has spread worldwide and become the world’s leading health concern. Individuals are advised to stay inside and do exercise at home to avoid exposure to the disease and their psychological state is concerned.
Xuan Pan
doaj   +3 more sources

Data from Paper ‘Embodied Terror Management: Interpersonal Touch Alleviates Existential Concerns among Individuals with Low Self-esteem’

open access: yesJournal of Open Psychology Data, 2015
The dataset includes data from the four studies reported in our 'Embodied terror management' paper. The data was collected at either the campus or at the psychology lab at the VU University Amsterdam in 2011/2012 among Dutch-speaking student samples. The
Mandy Tjew-A-Sin   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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