Research indicates that people respond to the elicitation of death thoughts by dogmatically
defending their cultural worldviews. The current research examines the potential for …

Research in terror management theory suggests that our connections to others function, in
part, to provide protection from the anxiety associated with the awareness of inevitable …

Previous research indicates that the awareness of death can be a barrier to creative
expression. Specifically, when mortality is rendered salient, creativity is inhibited. However …

The relationship between creativity and symbolic immortality had been long acknowledged
by scholars. In a review of the literature, we found 12 papers that empirically examined the …

Terror management research has shown that activating thoughts about mortality (mortality
salience) increases defence of one's worldview. This study investigated how worldview …

Previous research indicates that mortality salience and creative behavior combine to
increase feelings of guilt, presumably over the disruption to social connection elicited by the …

The present research, based on the ideas of O. Rank (1932/1989) and E. Becker (1973),
was designed to test the hypotheses that engaging in creative expression after personal …

Mortality salience (MS) can lead to a paralyzing terror, and to cope with this, people strive for
literal or symbolic immortality. As MS leads to conformity and narrow-mindedness, we …

Some research on creativity has linked higher levels of neuroticism with greater creative
achievement, whereas existential psychology sees the neurotic as incapable of channeling …

We present an existential account of the psychological function of artistic activity derived
from terror management theory. From this perspective, artistic creation and response …