The study of prosocial behavior—altruism, cooperation, trust, and the related moral emotions—
has matured enough to produce general scholarly consensus that prosociality is …

Terror management theory (TMT) highlights the motivational impact of thoughts of death in
various aspects of everyday life. Since its inception in 1986, research on TMT has …

Large-scale environmental crises are genuinely collective phenomena: they usually result
from collective, rather than personal, behavior and how they are cognitively represented and …

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 …

Terror management theory suggests that people cope with awareness of death by investing
in some kind of literal or symbolic immortality. Given the centrality of death transcendence …

In Study 1, politically liberal college students' in-group favoritism increased after a system-
injustice threat, becoming as pronounced as that of conservatives. Studies 2 and 3 …

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 …

Terror management theory posits that people are motivated to affirm cultural meaning
systems, including political ideologies, to avoid the awareness of mortality. Accordingly …