This research tested whether support for the killing of animals serves a terror management
function. In five studies, death primes caused participants to support the killing of animals …

Resistance to the idea that non-human animals are sentient resembles erstwhile resistance
to the theory that the earth is not the centre of the universe, or that humans evolved from …

This chapter presents a psychological theory, called'Terror Management Theory'(TMT),
which describes how human beings strive to transcend death by adhering to cultural …

Human beings harm and kill countless numbers of non-human animals each year and deny
them of protective rights. Although this behavior may serve a variety of necessary societal …

“Green burial” is a form of death care in which cemeteries are made to restore a “natural”
ecosystem, rather than a lawn-style landscape. While it has grown in popularity in recent …

This chapter turns to the work of anthropologist Ernest Becker, particularly his existential
explanation for human supremacy. His argument that death denial shapes behavior, culture …

This chapter unpacks James Baldwin's existential explanation for white supremacy.
Baldwin's broader work on race is central to scholarship in critical whiteness studies and the …

Let's be honest. Airline professionals have their hands full. Commercial air travel is not the
prestigious, exclusive mode of transportation that it was in the 1950s. Flying became …

Abstract The answer to Chapman & Huffman's question—“Why do we want to think humans
are different?”—lies in the work of Ernest Becker and the social psychology literature known …

Over the last thirty years, Terror Management Theory (TMT) has become an established
explanatory tool in social psychology, producing an impressive body of research that …