
Handbook of Terror Management Theory
Description
Key Features
- Examines the three critical hypotheses behind Terror Management Theory (TMT)
- Distinguishes proximal and distal responses to death-thoughts
- Provides a practical toolbox for conducting TMT research
- Covers the Terror Management Health Model
- Discusses the neuroscience of fear and anxiety
- Identifies how fear motivates consumer behavior
- Relates fear of death to psychopathologies
Readership
Students and researchers in social psychology. Also of interest to those in developmental, clinical, counseling, and cognitive psychology
Table of Contents
Section 1: Testing the Contours of the Theory
1. A Consideration of 3 Critical Hypotheses
2. Distinguishing Proximal and Distal Responses to Death-Thoughts
3. Controversies and Alternative Theories
4. TMT Toolbox: A Guide to Doing TMT ResearchSection 2: How TMT Helps us Understand
5. The Need to Structure the World
6. Our Relationship with Nature
7. The Self
8. The Self in Time: Nostalgia
9. Human Concerns about Sex, the Body, and Animality
10. Attachment and Romantic Relationships
11. Group Identification
12. Religion
13. Secular Cultural Worldviews
14. Affect, Meaning, and Well-Being
15. Psychological Growth, Creativity, and Exploration
16. Existential Neuroscience: Terror Management and the BrainSection 3: Applications
17. Health Attitudes and Behavior
18. Aging and Coping with Mortality
19. Psychopathology
20. Terrorism, War, and Peace-Making
21. Consumerism
22. The Legal System
23. Art and Media
24. Death and Risk Taking
25. Communication Theory and Terror Management
Product details
- No. of pages: 648
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2018
- Published: November 10, 2018
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128118443
- eBook ISBN: 9780128118450
About the Editors
Clay Routledge
Affiliations and Expertise
Matthew Vess
Affiliations and Expertise
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