Understanding public attitudes towards death is needed to inform health policies to foster
community death awareness and preparedness. Linguistic sentiment analysis of how …

Pollyanna hypothesis claims that human beings have a universal tendency to use positive
words more frequently and broadly than negative words. The present study aims to test …

Despite the proliferation of research on death attitudes, relatively little attention has been
paid to idiosyncratic meanings of death, as opposed to the large volume of work on death …

Four experiments, three cross-sectional and one longitudinal, tested the hypothesis that
contemplating one's own death produces a shift toward the use of positive emotion words …

Narrative messaging research has demonstrated that story outcome (eg, whether the main
character lives or dies) can impact audience behavior, but more research explicating and …

The present study explored temporal and self/other dimensions of death attitudes among
young adults. One hundred seventy-two undergraduate students were randomly assigned to …

The word “death” is often avoided in communication surrounding the end of life processes
by both health care practitioners and lay people alike (Berry, 2008; Generous & Keeley …

Understanding and managing the fear of death is a central issue in clinical care. Research
in terror management theory suggests that death reminders can lead to anxiety, depression …

In the 50 years of research in death attitudes, clear gains have been made in the
measurement of death concerns and competencies, leading to the development and …

The television camera was turned off and the interviewer turned to me, lowered her voice,
and asked,“Why are Anglo funerals so serious?” Ah, I thought, a woman curious about …