How Culture Grants Immortality: Terror Management Theory

This video gives a brief overview of Terror Management Theory (TMT). I discuss it's relation to self-esteem, culture, and relationships. I also cover the death-thought accessibility, mortality-salience, and anxiety-buffer hypotheses as well as different types of defenses such as distal and proximal defenses. Lastly, I cover some ways you can apply TMT to your own life. Please LIKE and SUBSCRIBE if this content has brought you any value as it helps with the algorithm.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
American Brief Provided some of the voice work. You can find his channel here:
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Thanks to the other 2 voice actors who helped with the video but want to remain anonymous!
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Sources:
Theoretical and Empirical Review of the Death-Thought Accessibility Concept in Terror Management Research
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Terror Management Theory and Self-Esteem: Evidence That Increased Self-Esteem Reduces Mortality Salience Effects
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Two Decades of Terror Management Theory: A Meta-Analysis of Mortality Salience Research
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Zen Flesh, Zen Bones
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Denying Death: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Terror Management Theory
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Additional Reading:
Secure Your Buffers or Stare at the Sun? Terror Management Theory and Psychotherapy Integration
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Encyclopedia of Death and Dying: Terror Management Theory
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Handbook of Theories of Social Psychology Ch 19: Terror Management Theory
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A terror management theory based intervention for anxiety in
spouses of cancer patients: a multiple-baseline study
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Death anxiety and its role in psychopathology: Reviewing the status of a transdiagnostic construct
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The Denial Of Death:
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Man's Search For Meaning
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Momma and The Meaning of Life
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Myth of Sisyphus
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I'm so glad I got to this video while studying for my exams, you managed to structure all the info so nicely and the background music really helps in "getting in the right mood". Congrats!

[@obbsheistone7879]

Great information and it has helped refresh my mind so now I can jump into some research for school. Thanks for all the work and take it easy out there.

[@Alyssabellac]

Great video! Really enjoyed how you mentioned political worldview defense which in turn led me to think about the current state of the world in relation to fear of death.

[@ernestbecker]

Absolutely excellent video and one of the best succinct explanations of TMT that we have seen to date. Fantastic job!!

[@youtility6685]

I am humbled by that comment. Thank you

[@kosqx]

Great introduction to the Terror Management Theory. Thanks!