Existential psychotherapy and Terror Management Theory (TMT) offer explanations for the
potential psychological effects of death awareness, although their respective literatures …

Highlights•Cultures shape basic cognition, such as attention, perception, categorization,
memory and heuristics.•Differences in social orientation, among other factors, can account …

Statistical mediation analysis is commonly used to examine mediation, but it is not the
default paradigm; researchers also test for mediation through experimental mediation …

The dual-process component of Terror Management Theory (TMT) proposes that different
types of threats lead to increases in death-thought accessibility (DTA) after different delay …

This book offers an account of contemplative reflection in qualitative social research.
Focusing on the experiences of the researcher–including sensory and emotional …

The unprecedented economic growth in many East Asian societies in the few past decades
have placed the region center stage, and increasing globalization has made East-West …

Проведена апробация (N= 260) русскоязычной версии шкалы аналитичности-холи-
стичности (analytic-holistic scale). Для проверки конвергентной валидности …

This research examines how people can defend themselves from the threat associated with
the COVID‐19 pandemic by relying more on their recently generated thoughts (unrelated to …

Nostalgia, a sentimental longing for one's meaningful past, promotes global self-continuity
(GSC), a sense of connection among one's past, present, and future selves. We identified a …

In this article we review the basic assumptions and findings of terror management theory.
Then we discuss some problems with those assumptions and findings. We note, for …