Attitudes have been a central topic in social psychology from its early beginnings. But what
exactly are attitudes, where do they come from, and how can they be modified? The overall …

The experimental manipulation of mortality salience (MS) represents one of the most widely
used methodological procedures in social psychology, having been employed by terror …

The recent COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a surge in anxiety across the globe. Much of
the public's behavioural and emotional response to the virus can be understood through the …

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

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 …

This Handbook provides a uniquely comprehensive and scholarly overview of the latest
research on prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination. All chapters are written by eminent …

From a terror management theory (TMT) perspective, religion serves to manage the potential
terror engendered by the uniquely human awareness of death by affording a sense of …

In recent decades, a new scientific approach to understand, explain, and predict many
features of religion has emerged. The cognitive science of religion (CSR) has amassed …

This article presents terror management theory (TMT) as a way to understand how the
human awareness of death affects materialism, conspicuous consumption, and consumer …

Terror management theory posits that to maintain psychological security despite the
awareness of personal mortality, humans must maintain faith in cultural worldviews. These …