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Hopelessly Mortal: The Role of Mortality Salience, Immortality and Trait Self-esteem in Personal Hope [PDF]
, 2015 Do people lose hope when thinking about death? Based on Terror Management Theory, we predicted that thoughts of death (i.e., mortality salience) would reduce personal hope for people low, but not high, in self-esteem, and that this reduction in hope ...
Heflick, Nathan A, Wisman, Arnaud
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An experimental investigation of existential concerns in point-of-care testing for cardiovascular disease using a terror management theory framework [PDF]
, 2012 Recent research in Terror Management Theory (TMT) has found that mortality reminders below conscious awareness can lead to avoidant responses towards cancer-screening.
Dunne, Simon
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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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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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Work, love, and death thought accessibility: a terror management investigation [PDF]
, 2018 Terror management theory suggests that following culturally derived scripts for valued behaviour protects people from death concerns, and conversely, not meeting standards for cultural value can weaken this protection, heightening mortality concerns ...
Daly, Michael +3 more
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Religions, 2019 In this article, I argue that “mindfulness of death” (maraṇasati) can be a tool to induce mortality salience and can have a positive psychological impact.
Hyun Gong Moon
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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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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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Entering the black hole: the Taliban, terrorism, and organised crime [PDF]
, 2014 Cooperation and imitation among crime and terror groups in recent years has given rise to a crime-terror nexus. A linear conceptualisation of a crime-terror spectrum, suggests that complete convergence of crime and terror in a failed state can give rise ...
Phillips, Matthew D., Kamen, Emily A.
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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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