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
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The Underlying Process of Prosocial Behavior Among Soldiers: A Terror Management Theory Perspective [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 The mortality salience (MS) hypothesis postulates that anxiety elicited by mortality awareness leads people to develop negative emotions toward those who hold values inconsistent with their worldview faith.
Ido Heller, Samer Halabi
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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 ...
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Terror Management Theory and the COVID-19 Pandemic. [PDF]
J Humanist Psychol, 2021 Terror management theory is focused on the role that awareness of death plays in diverse aspects of life. Here, we discuss the theory’s implications for understanding the widely varying ways in which people have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. We argue that regardless of whether one consciously believes that the virus is a major threat to life or ...
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Examining terror management theory in Ukraine: impact of air-raid alarms and explosions on mental health, somatic symptoms, and well-being [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023 ObjectiveThis study sought to evaluate Terror Management Theory (TMT) assumptions about death awareness and its psychological impact in the context of a real-world war situation with high external validity.
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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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Death Anxiety and Resilience in Older Adults: The Moderating Role of Attachment Patterns [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesThe unique human awareness of the fact that life is finite, and that death is unavoidable has been shown to elicit negative psychological consequences across the life cycle.
Yoav S. Bergman
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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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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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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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