A theoretical and empirical review of the death-thought accessibility concept in terror management research.

J Hayes, J Schimel, J Arndt, EH Faucher - Psychological bulletin, 2010 - psycnet.apa.org
Terror management theory (TMT) highlights the motivational impact of thoughts of death in
various aspects of everyday life. Since its inception in 1986, research on TMT has …

Implicit self-esteem: nature, measurement, and a new way forward.

MD Buhrmester, H Blanton… - Journal of personality and …, 2011 - psycnet.apa.org
Gaining insight into the nature and consequences of people's global self-evaluations (ie,
their self-esteem) has been fraught with difficulty. Nearly 2 decades ago, researchers …

Threat and defense: From anxiety to approach

E Jonas, I McGregor, J Klackl, D Agroskin… - … in experimental social …, 2014 - Elsevier
The social psychological literature on threat and defense is fragmented. Groups of
researchers have focused on distinct threats, such as mortality, uncertainty, uncontrollability …

Two decades of terror management theory: A meta-analysis of mortality salience research

BL Burke, A Martens… - Personality and Social …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …

When death is good for life: Considering the positive trajectories of terror management

KE Vail III, J Juhl, J Arndt, M Vess… - Personality and …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Research derived from terror management theory (TMT) has shown that people's efforts to
manage the awareness of death often have deleterious consequences for the individual and …

A quiet ego quiets death anxiety: humility as an existential anxiety buffer.

P Kesebir - Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2014 - psycnet.apa.org
Five studies tested the hypothesis that a quiet ego, as exemplified by humility, would buffer
death anxiety. Humility is characterized by a willingness to accept the self and life without …

Adjusting to death: the effects of mortality salience and self-esteem on psychological well-being, growth motivation, and maladaptive behavior.

C Routledge, B Ostafin, J Juhl, C Sedikides… - Journal of personality …, 2010 - psycnet.apa.org
This research builds on terror management theory to examine the relationships among self-
esteem, death cognition, and psychological adjustment. Self-esteem was measured (Studies …

Toward a greater understanding of the emotional dynamics of the mortality salience manipulation: Revisiting the “affect-free” claim of terror management research.

AJ Lambert, FR Eadeh, SA Peak… - Journal of personality …, 2014 - psycnet.apa.org
The experimental manipulation of mortality salience (MS) represents one of the most widely
used methodological procedures in social psychology, having been employed by terror …

Anxious uncertainty and reactive approach motivation (RAM).

I McGregor, K Nash, N Mann… - Journal of personality and …, 2010 - psycnet.apa.org
In 4 experiments anxious uncertainty threats caused reactive approach motivation (RAM). In
Studies 1 and 2, academic anxious uncertainty threats caused RAM as assessed by …