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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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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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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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