On the Compatibility of Terror Management Theory and Perspectives on Human Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology, 2007 Terror management theory (TMT) posits that the uniquely human awareness of death gives rise to a potential for debilitating terror, which is averted by the construction and maintenance of cultural worldviews.
Mark J. Landau +3 more
doaj +2 more sources
Understanding terror states of online users in the context of COVID-19: An application of Terror Management Theory. [PDF]
Comput Human Behav, 2021 Barnes SJ.
europepmc +2 more sources
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
doaj +1 more source
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
doaj +1 more source
EXERCISE UNDER DEATH-ANXIETY: INVESTIGATING INDIVIDUAL EXERCISE PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR FROM PERSPECTIVE OF TERROR MANAGEMENT AND BEHAVIORAL IMMUNE SYSTEM INTRODUCTION [PDF]
Journal 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
Putting the Terror Management Theory to Work: Exploration and Explanation
Polish Political Science Yearbook, 2021 Book review: Bartosz Bolechów, Gdy światło się mroczy: Światopogląd Państwa Islamskiego w perspektywie teorii opanowywania trwogi, Toruń 2020, pp. 276.
Joanna Rak
doaj +1 more source
Journal of Financial Therapy, 2016 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
doaj +1 more source
Consequences of information covering the COVID-19 pandemic from the point of view of Terror Management Theory [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2021 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
doaj +1 more source
When the reaper becomes a salesman: The influence of terror management on product preferences [PDF]
, 2015 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
core +2 more sources
A psychosocial evaluation about the COVID-19 pandemic in the context of the terror management theory
Klinik Psikiyatri Dergisi, 2020 Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, human beings were faced with a feeling of terror that they could not prevent, could not be protected, and were desperate. While trying to deal with the threat they faced, they resorted to many inappropriate ways. Some
Süheyla Ünal
doaj +1 more source