Death and Black Diamonds: Meaning, Mortality, and the Meaning Maintenance Model

By T. Proulx, Steven J. Heine. 2006

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Terror Management Theory and Research: How the Desire for Death Transcendence Drives Our Strivings for Meaning and Significance (2014, background): “…than reminders of death, such as personal dilemmas (e.g., McGregor, Zanna, Holmes, & Spencer 2001), abstract art and absurdist literature (e.g. Proulx & Heine, 2006), disconfirmation of expectations (Proulx & Heine, 2008), and thoughts of being uncertain (van den Bos & Miedema, 2000) or not…”
Attitudes Towards Science (2018, background): “…ideologies or maintain their religious beliefs because these help them to perceive the world in which they live as controllable, orderly, and (existentially) meaningful (e.g., Greenberg, Solomon, & Pyszczynski, 1997; Kay, Gaucher, McGregor, & Nash, 2010; Laurin & Kay, 2017; Proulx & Heine, 2006).”
Evidence for the specificity of control motivations in worldview defense: Distinguishing compensatory control from uncertainty management and terror management processes. (2011, background): “…focus on providing evidence for the unique value of the CCM and the psychological preference for direct compensation, as opposed to arguing against the existence of indirect forms of compensation, which is clearly supported in the literature (e.g., Heine et al., 2006; Proulx & Heine, 2006, 2008).”
The Five “A”s of Meaning Maintenance: Finding Meaning in the Theories of Sense-Making (2012, background): “According to the MMM, this aversive arousal motivates all meaning maintenance behaviors (Proulx, Inzlicht, & Harmon-Jones, 2012; Townsend et al., in press), though the best evidence for this causal relation derives from an indirect source—studies that follow from a “misattribution of arousal” paradi”
Toward an evolutionary social neuroscience of religion (2011, methodology): “This is an adaptationist argument that is similar to Terror Management Theory (TMT) in certain ways, but manages to avoid some of the theoretical issues that TMT has been criticized for (Kirkpatrick & Navarrete, 2008; Proulx & Heine, 2006; Randles, Proulx, & Heine, 2011).”
Turn-frogs and careful-sweaters: Non-conscious perception of incongruous word pairings provokes fluid compensation (2011, background): “Mortality salience has been construed as a meaning threat (for discussion see Proulx & Heine, 2006, in press) in that thoughts about one's impending death cannot be easily integrated into the daily thoughts of the typical undergraduate participant in terror management studies.”
Two Decades of Terror Management Theory: A Meta-Analysis of Mortality Salience Research (2010, background): “…or affirm different frameworks of meaning (i.e., what TMT terms distal death defenses), including a range of threats that are independent of death—such as feelings of uncertainty, self-esteem threats, social rejection or alienation, and feelings of meaninglessness (Proulx & Heine, 2006, 2008).”
Making Sense of Life: The Existential Self Trying to Deal with Personal Uncertainty (2009, background): “Mortality salience effects are perhaps the most reliable in the whole field of social psychology, but I also think it is fair to note that there has been some dissatisfaction in the literature revolving around what exact psychological processes mortality salience is triggering and how to understand ”