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How Culture Grants Immortality: Terror Management Theory

Updated: Jan 5, 2021


his video gives a brief overview of Terror Management Theory (TMT). I discuss it's relation to self-esteem, culture, and relationships. I also cover the death-thought accessibility, mortality-salience, and anxiety-buffer hypotheses as well as different types of defenses such as distal and proximal defenses. Lastly, I cover some ways you can apply TMT to your own life. Please LIKE and SUBSCRIBE if this content has brought you any value as it helps with the algorithm.





ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:


American Brief Provided some of the voice work. You can find his channel here:


Thanks to the other 2 voice actors who helped with the video but want to remain anonymous!


Cottonbro of Pexels has unknowingly assisted me by providing a bunch of high-quality stock video. You can find his account here: https://www.pexels.com/@cottonbro


Ishikari Lore by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)





Sources:




Theoretical and Empirical Review of the Death-Thought Accessibility Concept in Terror Management Research



Terror Management Theory and Self-Esteem: Evidence That Increased Self-Esteem Reduces Mortality Salience Effects



Two Decades of Terror Management Theory: A Meta-Analysis of Mortality Salience Research


Zen Flesh, Zen Bones


Denying Death: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Terror Management Theory



Additional Reading:



Secure Your Buffers or Stare at the Sun? Terror Management Theory and Psychotherapy Integration



Encyclopedia of Death and Dying: Terror Management Theory



Handbook of Theories of Social Psychology Ch 19: Terror Management Theory



A terror management theory based intervention for anxiety in

spouses of cancer patients: a multiple-baseline study



Death anxiety and its role in psychopathology: Reviewing the status of a transdiagnostic construct



The Denial Of Death:



Man's Search For Meaning



Momma and The Meaning of Life



Myth of Sisyphus

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