On the Unique Psychological Import of the Human Awareness of Mortality: Theme and Variations

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Death and gratitude: Death reflection enhances gratitude (2011, background): “Following Cozzolino (2006) and Pyszczynski et al. (2006), we believe that writing about one’s own death may permit subjects to analyze their mortality at a more abstract level, allowing them to maintain their denial of their inevitable demise.”
The People Paradox: Self-Esteem Striving, Immortality Ideologies, and Human Response to Climate Change (2009, methodology): “Although not universally accepted (Navarrete and Fessler 2005), TMT is supported by evidence from more than 300 empirical studies testing a wide range of predictions with Western and indigenous societies in various parts of the globe (Pyszczynski et al. 2006).”
Threat and defense: From anxiety to approach (2014, background): “Other facets of intergroup hostility after threat even include support of military intervention against countries from other cultures (Pyszczynski et al., 2006), harsher noise-blasts to peers who seem to have unfairly rejected participants (Leary, Twenge, & Quinlivan, 2006; Logue, 2006), angrier…”