Death anxiety and mental health: Requiem for a dreamer

RE Menzies, RG Menzies - Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Recently, there has been an increased interest in the role of death anxiety in a broad range
of mental health disorders. It has been argued that the fear of death may be a …

From dread to disorder: A meta-analysis of the impact of death anxiety on mental illness symptoms

RE Menzies, K McMullen, G Riotto, S Iliescu… - Clinical Psychology …, 2024 - Elsevier
Growing research suggests that death anxiety may be transdiagnostic, playing a key role in
the development and symptomology of psychopathology. This meta-analysis examined the …

Many Labs 4: Failure to replicate mortality salience effect with and without original author involvement

RA Klein, CL Cook, CR Ebersole, C Vitiello… - Collabra …, 2022 - online.ucpress.edu
Interpreting a failure to replicate is complicated by the fact that the failure could be due to the
original finding being a false positive, unrecognized moderating influences between the …

Q: What is the recipe for defense? A: Threat, anxiety, and approach motivation.

J Klackl, A Lüders, E Jonas - Motivation Science, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
The anxiety-to-approach model of threat and defense suggests that psychological threat and
defense reflects the operation of the behavioral inhibition system (BIS) and the behavioral …

Exploration of tolerance of unfairness under COVID-19 mortality salience and its effect on epidemic development

L Peng, S Luo - Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
COVID-19 has brought awareness of the daily threat of death to everyone in the world and
provided a natural context for raising widespread awareness of the salience of mortality …

Effects of death anxiety on fear of missing out

KNC Naidu, PKH Chew - Current Psychology, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Death Anxiety (DA) and Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) are two psychological
phenomena that have distinct implications for individuals and their overall quality of life. The …

The 4D Model of American Political Conservatism: Disgust, Disorder Aversion, Deontology, and (Social) Dominance

X Xu, JE Plaks - Review of General Psychology, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Over the decades, numerous researchers have identified psychological predictors of
conservative and liberal political orientation. However, most research teams have focused …

Enough Terror to Belong: The Nonlinear Association of Death Anxiety with Group Identification

C Li, J Dang, L Liu - Depression and Anxiety, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Death anxiety is presumed to be positively associated with group identification; however,
recent evidence of a null correlation between the two constructs raises questions regarding …

How thoughts of death and intrinsic/extrinsic goal orientation affect well‐being during the pandemic

F Sonmez - Journal of Consumer Affairs, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
During the COVID‐19 pandemic, reminders of death are so ubiquitous that it is almost
impossible to avoid death‐related thoughts. This research examined the effect of COVID‐19 …

“Life's too short to be small”: An experimental exploration of the relationship between death anxiety and muscle dysmorphia symptoms

RE Menzies, L Sharpe, B Richmond, ML Cunningham - Body Image, 2023 - Elsevier
Growing research demonstrates that death anxiety is strongly associated with numerous
mental health conditions. It is possible that death anxiety may similarly contribute to …