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An Appreciative View of the Brighter Side of Terror Management Processes [PDF]
Physical death is an inevitable part of life. From the perspective of terror management theory (TMT), people’s efforts to manage the awareness of death can sometimes have harmful social consequences.
Kenneth E. Vail, III, Jacob Juhl
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EXERCISE UNDER DEATH-ANXIETY: INVESTIGATING INDIVIDUAL EXERCISE PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR FROM PERSPECTIVE OF TERROR MANAGEMENT AND BEHAVIORAL IMMUNE SYSTEM INTRODUCTION [PDF]
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
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The Roles of Self-Esteem and Attachment within the Framework of Terror Management Theory [PDF]
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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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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Putting the Terror Management Theory to Work: Exploration and Explanation
Book review: Bartosz Bolechów, Gdy światło się mroczy: Światopogląd Państwa Islamskiego w perspektywie teorii opanowywania trwogi, Toruń 2020, pp. 276.
Joanna Rak
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Consequences of information covering the COVID-19 pandemic from the point of view of Terror Management Theory [PDF]
The article is devoted to the description and explanation of individual psychological and social phenomena from the point of view of actualizing thanatic issues during the COVID-19 pandemic and its information coverage.
Dmitrieva Polina
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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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The study of personal mortality salience and the denial of death have a long history in psychology leading to the modern field of Terror Management Theory.
Russell N James III
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Albert Camus – A Psychobiographical Approach in Times of Covid-19
Albert Camus (1913–1960) stands as one of the famous pioneers in the French history of existentialism. He was a novelist, political activist, essayist and editor, as well as a journalist and playwright.
Claude-Hélène Mayer +1 more
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When the reaper becomes a salesman: The influence of terror management on product preferences [PDF]
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. +3 more
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