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 …

Being creative is considered a desirable trait, yet most empirical studies emphasize how to
increase creativity rather than explore its possible benefits. A natural connection is how …

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in an abrupt change in routines and livelihoods all around
the world. This public health crisis amplified a number of systemic inequalities that led to …

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 …

Nostalgia is a topic that most lay people are familiar with, but, until recently, few social
scientists understood. Once viewed as a disease, nostalgia is now considered to be an …

Past research investigating the role of motivation in creativity has closely examined the role
of intrinsic (ie, process-focused) and extrinsic (ie, outcome-focused) motivation. Results from …

Science tells us that humans are merely animals that evolved to survive long enough to
reproduce and care for offspring before dying. Yet, people want to view life as something …

Our understanding of creativity has come a long way from when it was considered to be a
mystical power. Indeed, creativity has grown into a defined cognitive process that can be …

With the outbreak of the COVID-19 crisis, the public keeps getting epidemic-related
information on the media. News reports on the increasing number of fatalities have exposed …

Thoughts about one's death can not only induce death anxiety but also activate death-
related semantic concepts. These effects of mortality salience have different implications for …