A theoretical and empirical review of the death-thought accessibility concept in terror management research.

2010 ◽  
Vol 136 (5) ◽  
pp. 699-739 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Hayes ◽  
Jeff Schimel ◽  
Jamie Arndt ◽  
Erik H. Faucher
Keyword(s):  
Terror Management ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Death Thought Accessibility

Considering the roles of affect and culture in the enactment and enjoyment of cruelty

2006 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 231-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Spee Kosloff ◽  
Jeff Greenberg ◽  
Sheldon Solomon
Keyword(s):  
Terror Management Theory ◽  
Terror Management ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Cultural Worldview ◽  
Cultural Framework

Research on aggression and terror management theory suggests shortcomings in Nell's analysis of cruelty. Hostile aggression and exposure to aggressive cues are not inherently reinforcing, though they may be enjoyed if construed within a meaningful cultural framework. Terror management research suggests that human cruelty stems from the desire to defend one's cultural worldview and to participate in a heroic triumph over evil.

scholarly journals Nothing or the opposite: intersecting terror management and objective self‐awareness

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul J. Silvia
Keyword(s):  
Mortality Salience ◽  
Terror Management ◽  
The Self ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Completion Task ◽  
Relevant Word ◽  
Eventual Death ◽  
Word Completion

The human capacity for self‐awareness allows people to envision their eventual death and thus creates the potential for debilitating anxiety. Terror management research has shown that self‐awareness exacerbates the experience of mortality salience. I suggest that self‐awareness alone can induce mortality salience through dialectical thinking. If constructs include a concept and its opposite, then focusing on one aspect should also increase awareness of the opposite. Focusing on the existing object self should thus lead to the recognition of the non‐existent self that is implied. In study 1, participants experienced one of two self‐awareness manipulations (exposure to a mirror, perceiving the self as distinctive) or no manipulation; mortality salience was measured using a death‐relevant word completion task. Both self‐awareness conditions reported significantly higher mortality salience than the control condition. In study 2, participants exposed to their reflection reported increased death salience and life salience (as measured by death‐ and life‐relevant word completion tasks) than a control group, which directly suggests that self‐awareness leads people to dialectically consider opposing facets of the self. Terror management and objective self‐awareness theories might thus be more intimately tied than was previously thought. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Ebola salience, death-thought accessibility, and worldview defense: A terror management theory perspective

Death Studies ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (9) ◽  
pp. 585-591 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert B. Arrowood ◽  
Cathy R. Cox ◽  
Michael Kersten ◽  
Clay Routledge ◽  
Jill Talley Shelton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Terror Management Theory ◽  
Terror Management ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Worldview Defense ◽  
Death Thought Accessibility

The Anxiety-Buffering Properties of Cultural and Subcultural Worldviews: Terror Management Processes among Juvenile Delinquents

2012 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lukasz Baka ◽  
Romuald Derbis ◽  
Molly Maxfield
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Present Article ◽  
State Anxiety ◽  
Juvenile Delinquents ◽  
Terror Management ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Management Study ◽  
Cultural Worldview ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Mainstream Culture

The Anxiety-Buffering Properties of Cultural and Subcultural Worldviews: Terror Management Processes among Juvenile Delinquents Terror management research indicates that people reminded of mortality strongly affirm values and standards consistent with their cultural worldview and distance themselves from values and standards inconsistent with it. However, limited research has addressed how individuals holding beliefs inconsistent with the dominant worldview cope with death-related anxiety. The present article aims to determine which worldview subcultural groups rely on when reminded of mortality: mainstream or subcultural? Juvenile delinquents living in residential reformatories in Poland were invited to participate in a terror management study examining the anxiety-buffering strategies of individuals belonging to a group largely outside mainstream culture. Following reminders of mortality, juvenile delinquents increased support for values consistent with the mainstream cultural worldview and decreased support for values consistent with the subcultural worldview, as compared to control conditions. The present results suggest that when faced with existential threat, the subcultural worldview does not provide an adequate anxiety buffer, leading members of this subcultural group to display increased identification with mainstream cultural values. Additionally, participants' state anxiety following death reminders was mediated by mainstream cultural worldview defense.

Toward a greater understanding of the emotional dynamics of the mortality salience manipulation: Revisiting the “affect-free” claim of terror management research.

2014 ◽  
Vol 106 (5) ◽  
pp. 655-678 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan J. Lambert ◽  
Fade R. Eadeh ◽  
Stephanie A. Peak ◽  
Laura D. Scherer ◽  
John Paul Schott ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mortality Salience ◽  
Terror Management ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Emotional Dynamics
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