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On the Relationship Between Conscious and Unconscious Death Reminders, Self-esteem, and Self-control
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When thoughts of death become conscious individuals attempt to suppress them, which consumes self-control resources. Once consumed, performance on subsequent tasks requiring self-control tends to suffer. However, terror management theory would predict the exact opposite pattern of performance...
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Optimism, Pessimism, and Terror Management: Evidence That Strategic Optimists Experience DTA Using Incongruent Self-Regulation After Self-esteem Threat
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Terror management theory (TMT) has accumulated a large literature over the past two decades, but has yet to examine whether forms of optimism and pessimism serve a terror management function. The present study tested the death thought accessibility (DTA) hypothesis using a general self-esteem...
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