Humans clearly have trouble thinking about death. This trouble is often used to explain behavior like delay in writing wills or buying life insurance, or interest in odd medical and religious beliefs. But the problem is far worse than most people imagine. Fear of death makes us spend fifteen percent of our income on medicine, from which we get little or no health benefit, while we neglect things like exercise, which offer large health benefits. One cannot look directly at either the sun or death. La Rochefoucauld, 1665. Any animal that uses emotion to focus its attention must have a healthy fear of death. When something death-related appears in its environment, the animal must attend to identifying and responding to possible threats. We hum...
Terror management theory asserts that death fear (fear of annihilation) is buffered by self-esteem a...
The fear of death resists philosophical attempts at reconciliation. Building on theories of emotion,...
Terror Management Theory proposes that the threat of death produces existential terror, which accent...
Being conscious of one’s inescapable death is a fundamental attribute of humankind; it is what separ...
Five studies examined the cognitive association between thoughts of cancer and thoughts of death and...
Presents a class of Professor Shelly Kagan that explores the issue of how thinking about death may i...
Attitudes to our own mortality are characterized by more than just fear, suggests Bob Plant
Research derived from terror management theory suggests that death cognition does not lead to death-...
The purpose of this study was to test whether the developmental acquisition of a mature concept of d...
As we know, death is eternal fate of every phenomenon and men is not an exception. We`ll die soon or...
Objectives: According to the terror management health model, conscious thoughts of death motivate pr...
International audienceWe explored the determinants of fear of death from lay people’s perspective. T...
Research derived from terror management theory (TMT) suggests that conscious contemplations of morta...
Through history, man is followed by death, that despite of the fact that we are mortal, is not avail...
Terror management theory asserts that death fear (fear of annihilation) is buffered by self-esteem a...
Terror management theory asserts that death fear (fear of annihilation) is buffered by self-esteem a...
The fear of death resists philosophical attempts at reconciliation. Building on theories of emotion,...
Terror Management Theory proposes that the threat of death produces existential terror, which accent...
Being conscious of one’s inescapable death is a fundamental attribute of humankind; it is what separ...
Five studies examined the cognitive association between thoughts of cancer and thoughts of death and...
Presents a class of Professor Shelly Kagan that explores the issue of how thinking about death may i...
Attitudes to our own mortality are characterized by more than just fear, suggests Bob Plant
Research derived from terror management theory suggests that death cognition does not lead to death-...
The purpose of this study was to test whether the developmental acquisition of a mature concept of d...
As we know, death is eternal fate of every phenomenon and men is not an exception. We`ll die soon or...
Objectives: According to the terror management health model, conscious thoughts of death motivate pr...
International audienceWe explored the determinants of fear of death from lay people’s perspective. T...
Research derived from terror management theory (TMT) suggests that conscious contemplations of morta...
Through history, man is followed by death, that despite of the fact that we are mortal, is not avail...
Terror management theory asserts that death fear (fear of annihilation) is buffered by self-esteem a...
Terror management theory asserts that death fear (fear of annihilation) is buffered by self-esteem a...
The fear of death resists philosophical attempts at reconciliation. Building on theories of emotion,...
Terror Management Theory proposes that the threat of death produces existential terror, which accent...