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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"terror management theory"”.
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Perceptions of Death among Older Adults: Integrating Terror Management Theory and the Lifespan Development Framework
Terror management theory (TMT) seeks to understand religious worldview adherence, positing that worldview beliefs can abate existential threats such as mortality salience. Most research on TMT has employed young samples, so influences on older adults' experiences of mortality salience are unclear. …
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Death in the Curriculum: A Terror Management Theory Assessment of Emotions and Mortality Reminders in Post-Secondary Interdisciplinary Environmental Education Courses at Selected Canadian Universities
… effectively solve ecological problems. However, Terror Management Theory (TMT) researchers have found that mortality awareness triggers deep-rooted psychological defenses that may prompt unexpected and unwanted reactions and behaviors that counter pro-environmental objectives. We aim to …
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Prejudice Toward Atheists in the United States as Related to Perceived Prevalence
… contributes to the body of research supporting Terror Management Theory. It was hypothesized that religious participants should exhibit cultural worldview defense by scoring higher in anti-atheist prejudice following the MS manipulation than would those in the control condition. Further, this …
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The Unconscious Influence of Mortality Salience on Younger and Older Adults
… death. Two theories, socioemotional selectivity theory and terror management theory, hypothesize how individuals cope with thoughts about the end of life. The present study attempted to extend past research by comparing older and younger adults’ responses to unconscious mortality salience.</p> …
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Unconscious death-thoughts as a mediator between death awareness and self-forgiveness
Terror Management Theory assumes self-esteem is an important psychological mechanism in unconscious avoidance of death-related anxiety. I posited that Terror Management Theory encapsulates existential motivations for self-forgiveness; that is, I suggested self-forgiveness might buffer self-esteem …
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Nonvolitional Faking on a Personality Measure: Testing the Influence of Unconscious Processes
… and beyond volitional strategies of impression management. A 2 (Instruction Set) x 2 (Personality Feedback) x 2 (Mortality Salience) factorial design addressed social desirability biases in responding to personality measures. There were significant changes in all measures due to volitional (Fake …
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Womanhood 'under terror': an investigation into the embodied experience of Jewish-Israeli women living in a protracted conflict zone
… and considers the influence of 'living under terror' on models of womanhood within this culture. It is my contention that as a Western affiliated culture, Jewish-Israeli mainstream culture tends to deploy its women to buffer the existential anxiety endured by the whole society. As in other …
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Scared to death: an examination of underlying terror following death awareness
According to Terror Management Theory, when mortality is made salient the potential to experience terror causes powerful worldview defenses to manifest to suppress this potential. Recently, however, the theory has been criticized because no actual evidence has been found to show this potential to …
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COVID-19’s Effects on Mortality Salience, Death Anxiety, and Worldview Defense
… or even kill has become overwhelming for many. Terror Management Theory (TMT) suggests that when individuals are reminded of their own death people take part in culturally appropriate activities and defend their own culture as ways to alleviate this increased death anxiety. The current study …
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Does Health Anxiety Moderate the Effects of Mortality Salience On Worldview Defense?
<p>Research generated from Terror Management Theory has demonstrated that reminding participants of their eventual death increases self-esteem striving and worldview defense (Pyszczynski, Greenberg, Solomon, Arndt, & Schimel, 2004). The hypothesis in the present study was that health anxiety would …
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The "War on Terror," Mortality Salience, and American Prejudice Before and After the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombings
<p>The United States’ counterterrorism efforts have been framed in various ways in the media and politics, and each framing metaphor varies in its ability to accurately describe counterterrorism (Kruglanski, Crenshaw, Post, & Victoroff, 2007). Each frame also may have effects on the way the public …
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Awakned To A Life: An Existential- Phenomenological Examination Of The Lived Experience Of Recovery From Eating Disorders
… as criteria for participation in this study. Terror Management Theory was used as one lens to elucidate that experience to better understand the psychological and emotional changes the subjects encountered throughout their recovery process, Additionally, Van Manen's (1997) four lifeworld …
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Effects of a Brief Mindfulness Induction on Death-Related Anxiety
<p>Terror management theory postulates that the behavior and beliefs of individuals are influenced on some level by an underlying aversion to death. Mortality salience, the conscious awareness of one’s own impending death, creates behavioral changes in individuals compared to non-mortality salient …
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Needs-Based Standards Of Practice For The Use Of Forensic Genetic Genealogy In Investigations Of Violence Toward Marginalized Victims
… European-descended victims? Dual process theory and terror management theory were the basis of the theoretical framework.</p> <p>Narrative surveys were used to gather data. Marginalized respondents were aware of the greater difficulties faced in resolving cases involving a marginalized …
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Searching under stress: Anxiety and selective information exposure
… patterns have emerged in the data. They theory of affective intelligence (Marcus, Neuman, & MacKuen, 2000) posits that emotional arousal, particularly anxiety, alerts organisms to gather and evaluate information from the environment that can be useful for self-protection. On the other …
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Cracked skulls and social liability : relating helmet safety messages to motorcycle riders
Grounded theory analysis, informed by a socio-cultural lens, was applied to the narratives of eighteen motorcycle riders in order to understand, from the rider’s perspective, receptivity to warning messages regarding motorcycle helmet use. This study relied upon narrative analysis to identify …
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Juvenile Court Judges and their Concerns about Vulnerability, Experienced Uncertainty and the Law: Extralegal Factors, Legal Considerations and Judicial Transfer Decision-making
… and three categories of variables: (a) terror management and social information-processing, (b) uncertainty management and attributional reasoning, and (c) statutory and nonstatutory sources of influence. Two social theories (i.e., the dual-process theory of proximal/distal defenses and …
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The Proverbial Ticking Biological Clock: A Symbolic TMT Perspective on Mate Perception
Past research has shown that mortality salience increases desire for offspring. Additionally, past studies have illustrated that women in a high fertility phase within a menstrual cycle show greater preference for masculine faces while performing facial judgment tasks than do women in a low …
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Semper Fi: How Images of Death in NCIS Affect Attitude Change
This pre-test, post- test experiment examined the effects of mortality salience, frames of the military and military personnel, and regulatory focus on viewer attitudes toward the military, support for the military, and their perceptions of military personnel's criminal behavior. Participants …
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