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Subject(s)

• Risk-taking (Psychology) [Browse]
• Terror—Psychological aspects [Browse]
• Death—Psychological aspects [Browse]

Editor

• Routledge, Clay [Browse]
• Vess, Matthew [Browse]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. A consideration of three critical hypotheses
• 2. Proximal and distal terror management defenses: a systematic review and analysis
• 3. What's death got to do with it? Controversies and alternative theories
• 4. The method behind the science: a guide to conducting terror management theory research
• 5. Terror management motivation fuels structure-seeking
• 6. We supernaturals: terror management and people's ambivalent relationship with nature
• 7. The curse and the blessing: the self as source of the terror and the primary avenue for managing it
• 8. Precious time: the role of time and temporal thought in managing death awareness
• 9. Terror management is for the birds and the bees: an existential perspective on the threat associated with human corporeality
• 10. An attachment perspective on managing death concerns
• 11. Terror management theory and religious belief
• 12. Secular cultural worldviews
• 13. Terror management theory: a theory of psychological well-being
• 14. The terror management of meaning and growth: how mortality salience affects growth-oriented processes and the meaningfulness of life
• 15. Existential neuroscience: a review and brain model of coping with death awareness
• 16. Physical health under the shadow of mortality: the terror management health model
• 17. Aging and coping with mortality: understanding attitudes about aging and age-related differences in coping with death
• 18. Terror management theory and psychological disorder: ineffective anxiety-buffer functioning as a transdiagnostic vulnerability factor for psychopathology
• 19. The cycle of intergroup conflict: terror management in the face of terrorism and war
• 20. Consumer culture as worldview defense: a terror management perspective
• 21. Legal applications of terror management theory
• 22. Applying terror management theory to art, film, and media: a theoretical and empirical review
• 23. The terror management underpinnings of risky behavior
• 24. Meaning-making, communication, and terror management processes.

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ISBN

• 012811844X
• 9780128118443

OCLC

1040659269

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