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Direct linkHayes, Joseph; Schimel, Jeff; Arndt, Jamie; Faucher, Erik H. – Psychological Bulletin, 2010
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 undergone a slight but significant shift from an almost exclusive focus on the manipulation of thoughts of death to a marked increase in studies that measure the accessibility…
Descriptors: Death, Behavioral Science Research, Anxiety, World Views
Grabe, Shelly; Routledge, Clay; Cook, Alison; Andersen, Christie; Arndt, Jamie – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2005
Previous research has illustrated the negative psychological consequences of female body objectification. The present study explores how female body objectification may serve as a defense against unconscious existential fears. Drawing from terror management theory, an experiment was designed to test the potential functionality of female body…
Descriptors: Females, Human Body, Self Concept, Gender Differences
