Terror Management Theory
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A Terror Management Theory is a psychological theory that describes how mortality awareness drives cultural worldview defense.
- Context:
- It can typically buffer Terror Management Existential Fear through terror management worldview adherence.
- It can often amplify Terror Management Authoritarian Support with terror management mortality reminders.
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- It can range from being an Individual Terror Management Theory to being a Societal Terror Management Theory, depending on its terror management scope level.
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- It can explain Terror Management Behavioral Shift via terror management anxiety management.
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- Example(s):
- Terror Management Theory Applications, such as:
- Political Terror Management Theory in response to deaths.
- Cultural Terror Management Theory in identity protection.
- Terror Management Theory Studies, such as:
- Mortality Salience Terror Management Theory Experiment showing conservatism increase.
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- Terror Management Theory Applications, such as:
- Counter-Example(s):
- Optimism Bias, which ignores mortality without terror management defense.
- Hedonic Adaptation, which adjusts to threats unlike terror management amplification.
- See: Mortality Salience, Existential Anxiety, Psychological Theory.