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Social psychology

the theory that cultural worldviews and self-esteem buffer the anxiety caused by awareness of death.

In social psychology, terror management theory refers to the theory that cultural worldviews and self-esteem buffer the anxiety caused by awareness of death. This meaning comes from Greenberg (1986) in Public Self and Private Self.[1]

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References

Greenberg, J., Pyszczynski, T., & Solomon, S. (1986). The Causes and Consequences of a Need for Self-Esteem: A Terror Management Theory. In Public Self and Private Self (pp. 189-212). Springer New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9564-5_10

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