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Terror Management Theory attempts to explain human behavior on the premise that awareness of our mortality causes paralyzing terror. However, morbid curiosity may ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths in the U.S. As chief strategists of their respective firms, how do Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) react to mortality salience ...

Reminders of our own mortality trigger dramatic behavioral change. Terror management theory dictates that any death reminder will initiate a spectrum of behaviors ...

Sarah Elizabeth Wolfe gratefully acknowledges two decades of funding from Canada's Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. The author does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive ...