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Mortality Salience and Metabolism: Glucose Drinks Reduce Worldview Defense Caused by Mortality Salience [PDF]
, 2012 The current work tested the hypothesis that a glucose drink would reduce worldview defense following mortality salience. Participants consumed either a glucose drink or placebo, wrote about either death or dental pain, and then completed a measure of ...
Gailliot, Matthew T.
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Dying for a tan : explaining intentions to use sunscreen with the theory of planned behaviour, threats to appearance and mortality, and the theory of terror management : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Psychology at Massey University [PDF]
, 2003 Skin cancer has become one of the most prevalent forms of cancer throughout the world (Arthey & Clarke, 1995), with New Zealand leading the world in both melanoma-related deaths and incidences. It has been indicated that 80 per cent of skin cancers could
Mills, Katharine Elizabeth
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, 2016 Rooted in the writings of existentialists, terror management theory states that the awareness of death has the potential to create debilitating anxiety and compromise psychological well-being and that psychological buffers (e.g., self-worth) protect ...
Juhl, Jacob, Routledge, Clay
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 IntroductionGrounded in Terror Management Theory (TMT), this research explored the influence of mortality salience on preferences for afterlife beliefs (reincarnation vs. resignation to fate) within a Chinese context.
Kun Wang +3 more
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The Problems of Evaluating Counter-Terrorism [PDF]
, 2006 Following the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001 security policies aimed at combating terrorist threats have been implemented all around the world.
Spencer, Alexander
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Seeing and unseeing Prevent’s racialized borders [PDF]
, 2020 This article provides a re-theorization of the Prevent strategy as racialized bordering. It explores how knowledge regarding the racist logics of British counter-terrorism are supressed through structures of white ignorance and how International ...
Ali, Nadya
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Climate change risk and terror management theory
Journal of Risk Research, 2022 Being intrinsically associated with death-related themes (e.g. decay, destruction, lack of control, chaos), communicating climate change risks may elicit thoughts in an audience about their own mortality–potentially invoking terror management responses.
Priyanka A. Naidu +2 more
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The Unconscious Influence of Mortality Salience on Younger and Older Adults [PDF]
, 2011 Past research has examined the many ways individuals behave in response to unconscious primes. For instance, unconsciously activating stereotypes leads people to exhibit behavior that parallels the target stereotype (e.g., Bargh, Chen, & Burrows, 1996 ...
Johnson, Ellen
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Text Matters, 2022 An awareness of deep time—both humanity’s deep past and the Earth’s deep future—and an understanding of its existential implications can significantly enhance the chances that humanity might still be able to transition towards an ecologically sustainable
Christian Arnsperger
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A theoretical exploration of death anxiety [PDF]
, 2015 Death anxiety is examined from several frameworks in an attempt to understand it better. The frameworks are grounded in existential, Freudian, cognitive-behavioural, Becker’s sociological perspective and Terror management theory.
Hoelterhoff, Mark
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