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Direct linkHayes, Joseph; Schimel, Jeff; Arndt, Jamie; Faucher, Erik H. – Psychological Bulletin, 2010
Terror management theory (TMT) highlights the motivational impact of thoughts of death in various aspects of everyday life. Since its inception in 1986, research on TMT has undergone a slight but significant shift from an almost exclusive focus on the manipulation of thoughts of death to a marked increase in studies that measure the accessibility…
Descriptors: Death, Behavioral Science Research, Anxiety, World Views
