Two Decades of Terror Management Theory: A Meta-Analysis of Mortality Salience Research

By Brian L. Burke, A. Martens, Erik H. Faucher. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2010

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

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Threat and defense: From anxiety to approach (2014, background): “group essays (Burke et al., 2010; Greenberg et al., 1990; McGregor et al., 2001; Nakonezny et al., 2004), derogation of group-norm deviants (Burris & Rempel, 2004), greater revenge against moral violators (Schumann et al.”
Terror Management Theory and the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020, background): “Meta-analyses have found strong evidence that reminders of death increase commitment to one’s worldview (Burke et al., 2010) and that threats to one’s worldview increase the accessibility of death-related thoughts (Steinman & Updegraff, 2015).”
Perceived threats of terrorism and job performance: The roles of job-related anxiety and religiousness (2017, background): “Whereas TMT theory focuses on the effects of perceived threats of terrorism and mortality salience on the experience of anxiety in general (Burke et al., 2010; Greenberg et al., 1986), it devotes less attention to how such perceptions might influence people in an organizational setting.”
Death Goes to the Polls: A Meta-Analysis of Mortality Salience Effects on Political Attitudes* (2013, background): “This effect size reaches the 95 percentile for theories in social psychology and exceeds the effect size for MS in general (r = .35; Burke et al., 2010).”
The religious correlates of death anxiety: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2018, neutral): “There is an impressive amount of evidence for this account, as recently reported in a meta-analysis by Burke, Martens, and Faucher (2010): reminders of death consistently lead individuals to enhance their self-esteem, defend their cultural values, favour their ingroups (including minimal ingroups;…”
Death anxiety in the time of COVID-19: theoretical explanations and clinical implications (2020, result): “TMT posits that our awareness of our own death produces a crippling terror, and that humans have developed two distinct buffers in order to allay this fear: cultural worldviews, and self-esteem.”