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Plan for the worst, hope for the best? Exploring major events related terrorism and future challenges for UK event professionals [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This paper investigates major event related terrorism and the resulting challenges that event professionals may face when hosting major events in cities as part of a destination marketing strategy.
Baxter, Daniel   +2 more
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Relationship between mindfulness and hoarding among Chinese college students: a terror management theory perspective

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications
Although mindfulness has been shown to bring many benefits, no research to date has examined whether it is associated with reduced hoarding behavior during health disasters.
Yuxuan Tan, Rong Huang, Ying Sun
doaj   +1 more source

A Heroic Vision

open access: yesZygon, 1998
Although the empirical studies of Terror Management Theory lend support to Ernest Becker's anthropology, they hardly provide a vision with the power to inspire late twentieth century humanity.
doaj   +2 more sources

The Effect of Age on Death Disgust: Challenges to Terror Management Perspectives

open access: yesEvolutionary Psychology, 2005
Proponents of Terror Management Theory (TMT) argue that many facets of disgust serve to defend against existential anxiety accompanying cognizance of one's mortality.
Daniel M.T. Fessler, C. David Navarrete
doaj   +1 more source

Terror Management Theory and Mental Health Stigma. Testing the worldview defense in mental health professionals

open access: yesDialogues in Clinical Neuroscience & Mental Health, 2020
People with mental health disorders experience exclusion and discrimination due to mental health stigma which includes misconceptions, negative attitudes and stereotypes against them.
George Tsouvelas   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

When threat to society becomes a threat to oneself: implications for right-wing attitudes and ethnic prejudice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The relationships between threat and right-wing attitudes and ethnic prejudice were investigated in a heterogeneous sample (N = 588). Specifically, we considered the perception of economic and terroristic threats in terms of their consequences at the ...
Onraet, Emma, Van Hiel, Alain
core   +1 more source

Terror Management Theory

open access: yes, 2011
Terror management theory posits that the juxtaposition of an inclination toward self-preservation with the highly developed intellectual abilities that make humans aware of their vulnerabilities and inevitable death creates the potential for paralyzing terror. One of the most important functions of cultural worldviews is to manage the terror engendered
openaire   +1 more source

Conspiratorial Thinking: How Worldview and Mortality Salience Affect Belief [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Conspiratorial thinking is widespread throughout the world, though the major social sciences have thus far chosen not to study them for a variety of reasons.
Anderson, Eric James
core  

Fighting terror with law? Some other genealogies of pre-emption [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Within criminology and criminal law the reception of post-9/11 counter-terrorist law has generally been critical, if not hostile. The undeniable proliferation of preventive statutes has been regarded as incompatible with conventional liberal norms and
Mark Finnane, Susan Donkin
core   +3 more sources

Trwoga 10/04 w świetle badań opinii publicznej

open access: yesPoliteja, 2014
The Fear of 10.04 in the Light of Opinion Polls April 10th 2010 is undoubtedly one of the most important dates in modern Polish political history. 96 high Polish officials, including President Lech Kaczynski, died in an airplane crash in Smolensk.
Paweł Ścigaj
doaj   +1 more source

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