Collective trauma is a cataclysmic event that shatters the basic fabric of society. Aside from
the horrific loss of life, collective trauma is also a crisis of meaning. The current paper …

Integrating psychoanalytic ideas of group idealisation with social identity and categorisation
theories, this article discusses the distinction between secure and defensive in-group …

Social media allows people to freely interact with others and offers multiple ways for
marketers to reach and engage with consumers. Considering the numerous ways social …

Large-scale environmental crises are genuinely collective phenomena: they usually result
from collective, rather than personal, behavior and how they are cognitively represented and …

Terror management theory posits that human awareness of the inevitability of death exerts a
profound influence on diverse aspects of human thought, emotion, motivation, and behavior …

The social psychological literature on threat and defense is fragmented. Groups of
researchers have focused on distinct threats, such as mortality, uncertainty, uncontrollability …

The novel coronavirus, COVID‐19, proliferates as a contagious psychological threat just like
the physical disease itself. Due to the growing death toll and constant coverage this …

A meta-analysis was conducted on empirical trials investigating the mortality salience (MS)
hypothesis of terror management theory (TMT). TMT postulates that investment in cultural …

Nostalgia, a sentimental longing for the past, is an ambivalent–albeit more positive than
negative–emotion. Nostalgia is infused with sociality, as it refers to important figures from …

The psychology of group identification is central to the study of political behavior. The
conditions under which group identities become politicized, the psychology underlying this …