Twenty Years of Terror Management Theory and Research

Greenberg, Jeff; Solomon, Sheldon; Pyszczynski, Thomas A.

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“…A conceptual cornerstone of these approaches is that under threat, the psychological mechanisms responsible for procuring safety and equanimity should be recruited as a way of reducing anxiety (e.g., Solomon et al, 2004). For example, if after being reminded of death, individuals defend their cultural worldview and derogate those who hold opposing views, it implicates those beliefs as central to providing existential solace (Arndt et al, 1997).…”

Section: Proposition #2: Existential Anxiety Impairs Meaningmentioning

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Finding Meaning Amidst COVID-19: An Existential Positive Psychology Model of Suffering

Tongeren

2021

Front. Psychol.

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The global COVID-19 pandemic has created a crisis of suffering. We conceptualize suffering as a deeply existential issue that fundamentally changes people indelible ways and for which there are no easy solutions. To better understand its effects and how people can flourish in the midst of this crisis, we formally introduce and elaborate on an Existential Positive Psychology Model of Suffering (EPPMS) and apply that to the COVID-19 global pandemic. Our model has three core propositions: (a) suffering reveals existential concerns, (b) existential anxiety impairs one's ability to find meaning, and (c) cultivating meaning is the primary way to address suffering and allay existential anxiety, eventually leading to flourishing (and potentially growth). We apply this model to the COVID-19 pandemic, including how to build meaning, and discuss clinical implications.

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Section: Proposition #2: Existential Anxiety Impairs Meaningmentioning

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Finding Meaning Amidst COVID-19: An Existential Positive Psychology Model of Suffering

Tongeren

2021

Front. Psychol.

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Immortal Objects: The Objectification of Women as Terror Management

Goldenberg

2013

Nebraska Symposium on Motivation

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Philosophical theorizing, research on self-objectification, and the newest empirical research on the objectification of others converge to support the notion that the objectification of women entails rendering women, quite literally, as objects. This chapter begins with a review of this literature and then moves onto the question of why women are viewed as objects. The answer offered is informed by terror management theory, and suggests that the need to manage a fear of death creates a fundamental problem with the physical body, and such difficulties resonate especially in reaction to women's--menstruating, lactating, childbearing--bodies, and men's attraction to them. Evidence is presented to support this, and for the position that this situation plays a role in, not just expectations for women to be beautiful, but in the literal transformation of women into inanimate--immortal--objects.

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Creating Meaningful Life for a Responsible and Sustainable Future

Torkar

2015

Responsible Living

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Twenty Years of Terror Management Theory and Research

Cited by 28 publications

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Finding Meaning Amidst COVID-19: An Existential Positive Psychology Model of Suffering

Finding Meaning Amidst COVID-19: An Existential Positive Psychology Model of Suffering

Immortal Objects: The Objectification of Women as Terror Management

Creating Meaningful Life for a Responsible and Sustainable Future

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