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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
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Albert Camus – A Psychobiographical Approach in Times of Covid-19
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 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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An Appreciative View of the Brighter Side of Terror Management Processes
Social Sciences, 2015 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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Coronavirus and Politics: Demands and Values in the Age of the Pandemic
Международная аналитика, 2020 The article discusses the political eff ects of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic in the framework of Terror Management Theory. Growing fears caused by the pandemic provoke mortality salience across the globe.
D. A. Parenkov, K. E. Petrov
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ON THE INFLUENCE OF INSECURITY ON MATERIALISTIC ORIENTATION [PDF]
Trakia Journal of Sciences, 2020 Materialistic orientation has long been related to various aspects of personality development and subjective wellbeing. Literature and research overview provides evidence that a higher level of materialistic orientation is related to increased external ...
V. Todorova
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 According to terror management theory, humans rely on meaningful and permanence-promising cultural worldviews, like religion, to manage mortality concerns. Prior research indicates that, compared to religious individuals, atheists experience lower levels
Melissa Soenke +2 more
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Infodemic: the effect of death-related thoughts on news-sharing
Cognitive Research, 2021 Research on the sharing of fake news has primarily focused on the manner in which fake news spreads and the literary style of fake news. These studies, however, do not explain how characteristics of fake news could affect people’s inclination toward ...
Amy J. Lim, Edison Tan, Tania Lim
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Animal Sentience, 2019 The answer to Chapman & Huffman’s question — “Why do we want to think humans are different?” — lies in the work of Ernest Becker and the social psychology literature known as Terror Management Theory, according to which our deep anxiety about animality ...
Lori Marino
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Frontiers in PsychologyAs the threat of global warming to human beings has gradually received attention, this article introduces the terror management theory to explain whether health risk awareness will affect their willingness to accept smart green buildings and that ...
Lydia Chu
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Emotional responses to mortality salience: Behavioral and ERPs evidence.
PLoS ONE, 2021 Terror Management Theory (TMT) suggests that death-related thoughts activate proximal defense which allows people to suppress or rationalize death awareness.
Shiyun Huang, Hongfei Du, Chen Qu
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