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 …

This new handbook presents, synthesizes, and integrates the existing knowledge of
methods, theories, and data in attitudes. The editors' goal is to promote an understanding of …

Terror management theory postulates that mortality salience (MS) increases the motivation
to defend one's cultural worldviews. How that motivation is expressed may depend on the …

Terror management theory was developed to explain the motivational underpinnings of
phenomena such as self-esteem defense and prejudice. The theory is rooted in a long …

Nostalgia is a topic that most lay people are familiar with, but, until recently, few social
scientists understood. Once viewed as a disease, nostalgia is now considered to be an …

This research builds on terror management theory to examine the relationships among self-
esteem, death cognition, and psychological adjustment. Self-esteem was measured (Studies …

Science tells us that humans are merely animals that evolved to survive long enough to
reproduce and care for offspring before dying. Yet, people want to view life as something …

While mobile health applications (mHealth apps) have attracted considerable practical and
research attention in recent years, very few information systems (IS) studies have ever …

Drawing from terror management theory, the present research examined whether people
turn to close relationships to manage the awareness of mortality because they serve as a …

This article offers an integrative understanding of the intersection between health and death
from the perspective of the terror management health model. After highlighting the potential …