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
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...


Terror Management Theory and Self-Esteem: Evidence That Increased Self-Esteem Reduces Mortality Salience Effects

https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...


Two Decades of Terror Management Theory: A Meta-Analysis of Mortality Salience Research
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

Zen Flesh, Zen Bones
https://smile.amazon.com/Zen-Flesh-Bo...

Denying Death: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Terror Management Theory
https://smile.amazon.com/Denying-Deat...


Additional Reading:


Secure Your Buffers or Stare at the Sun? Terror Management Theory and Psychotherapy Integration
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...


Encyclopedia of Death and Dying: Terror Management Theory
http://www.deathreference.com/Sy-Vi/T...


Handbook of Theories of Social Psychology Ch 19: Terror Management Theory
https://www.uni-ulm.de/fileadmin/webs...


A terror management theory based intervention for anxiety in
spouses of cancer patients: a multiple-baseline study
https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent....


Death anxiety and its role in psychopathology: Reviewing the status of a transdiagnostic construct
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...


The Denial Of Death:
https://smile.amazon.com/Denial-Death...


Man's Search For Meaning
https://smile.amazon.com/Mans-Search-...


Momma and The Meaning of Life
https://smile.amazon.com/Momma-Meanin...


Myth of Sisyphus
https://smile.amazon.com/Myth-Sisyphu...