Terror Management Theory
… was developed to explain the motivational underpinnings of phenomena such as self-esteem defense and prejudice.
The theory posits that to manage the potential for terror engendered by the awareness of mortality, humans sustain faith in worldviews which provide a sense that they are significant beings in an enduring, meaningful world rather than mere material animals fated only to obliteration upon death.
in: Chapter 19: Terror Management Theory
Jeff Greenberg and Jamie Arndt
Handbook of Theories of Social Psychology: Volume One
edited by Paul A M Van Lange, Arie W Kruglanski, E Tory Higgins
SAGE Publications.
http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book236013/toc
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https://franzcalvo.wordpress.com/2014/01/02/nothing-focuses-the-mind-like
https://franzcalvo.wordpress.com/2018/08/01/prediction-opinion-might-be-better
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