Open to death: A moderating role of openness to experience in terror management
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2017.03.003
Abstract: Abstract Research on terror management theory demonstrates that people respond to reminders of mortality with defenses aimed at maintaining their self-esteem and defending cultural worldviews. We posited that being open to experience should allow individuals… read more here.
Keywords: openness experience; death; mortality; terror management ... See more keywords
Self-esteem and immortality: Evidence regarding the terror management hypothesis that high self-esteem is associated with a stronger sense of symbolic immortality
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DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2021.110712
Abstract: Abstract Terror Management Theory (Greenberg, Pyszczynski, & Solomon, 1986) defines self-esteem as the feeling that one is living up to the standards of their internalized cultural worldview and is consequently worthy of the symbolic and/or… read more here.
Keywords: hypothesis; self esteem; terror management; symbolic immortality ... See more keywords
Ebola salience, death-thought accessibility, and worldview defense: A terror management theory perspective
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DOI: 10.1080/07481187.2017.1322644
Abstract: ABSTRACT According to terror management theory, individuals defend their cultural beliefs following mortality salience. The current research examined whether naturally occurring instances of death (i.e., Ebola) correspond to results found in laboratory studies. The results… read more here.
Keywords: death; management theory; salience; terror management ... See more keywords
Applying terror management theory as a framework to understand the impact of heightened mortality salience on children, adolescents, and their parents: A systematic review
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DOI: 10.1080/07481187.2022.2132550
Abstract: Abstract Terror Management Theory (TMT) posits that controlling death anxiety is a driving force behind many aspects of social behavior. The objective in this systematic review was to explore how TMT is used to explain… read more here.
Keywords: management theory; mortality salience; mortality; children adolescents ... See more keywords
Mitigating death anxiety: Identifying music’s role in terror management
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DOI: 10.1177/0305735617690600
Abstract: Based on the ideas of social-anthropologist Ernest Becker, Terror Management Theory (TMT) explains human behavior as being motivated by conscious and unconscious mortality salience. This article examines the role of music in the denial of… read more here.
Keywords: death; death anxiety; terror management; music ... See more keywords
Collective in exile: Utilizing terror management theory to understand women’s wailing performance
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DOI: 10.1177/1363461517720059
Abstract: Although women’s wailing at death rites in various cultures typically amplifies mortality salience, this ritual phenomenon is absent in the research literature on terror management theory (TMT). This study explored Yemenite-Jewish wailing in Israel as… read more here.
Keywords: women wailing; death; management theory; terror management ... See more keywords
Distressful Empathy in Reading Literature: the Case for Terror Management Theory?
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DOI: 10.24195/2414-4665-2017-1-6
Abstract: This article investigates the extent to which predictions of Terror Management Theory also hold on reading literature. Indeed, death is ubiquitous in fiction. But does reading about it cause the same reactions as those predicted… read more here.
Keywords: reading; literature; management theory; terror management ... See more keywords
Terror Management in a Multicultural Society: Effects of Mortality Salience on Attitudes to Multiculturalism Are Moderated by National Identification and Self-Esteem Among Native Dutch People
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DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00721
Abstract: Terror Management Theory (TMT; Greenberg et al., 1997) proposes that mortality concerns may lead people to reject other cultures than their own. Although highly relevant to multiculturalism, TMT has been rarely tested in a European… read more here.
Keywords: national identification; dutch; terror management; multiculturalism ... See more keywords