Evidence for the specificity of control motivations in worldview defense: Distinguishing compensatory control from uncertainty management and terror management processes.

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Terror Management Theory and Research: How the Desire for Death Transcendence Drives Our Strivings for Meaning and Significance (2014, background): “It is hard to imagine how a theory that views activation of approach motivation as the proximal source of relief from threat could generate any of the predictions made by TMT or any a priori predictions regarding specific responses to particular threats (cf. Shepherd et al., 2011).”
The Effect of Stress on Consumer Saving and Spending (2016, background): “Stress, and the resultant perception that the environment cannot be controlled, might generate uncertainty, but it seems that willingness to spend is driven by attempts to restore control rather than gain a sense of certainty (see Shepherd et al. 2011).”
Threat and defense: From anxiety to approach (2014, background): “This might force people to use a certain defense even if they would have spontaneously preferred a different one, perhaps one more closely linked to the threat (see Shepherd et al., 2011, for recent empirical findings that support this reasoning).”