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Older Adults and Generativity: Developmental, Experimental, and Clinical Advances in Terror Management Theory
DownloadSpring 2013
Terror Management Theory (TMT) (Greenberg, Pyszczynski, & Solomon, 1986) offers an empirical framework to explore how human beings function despite their fear of death. TMT studies have shown that in order to buffer death anxiety, people strive to meet the standards of their cultural worldview. ...
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Fall 2011
Representation of Self and Others is a wide-spread focus of research among scholars from many disciplines. This study approaches the phenomenon of Self and Other from a linguistic standpoint. The main goal is to reveal methods of creating images of Self and Others in the context of blogs and link...
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Fall 2011
Each of us has a self-concept – the set of characteristics that reflect the type of person we are (Wakslak et al. 2008) – within which exist specific self-schema and self-identities that guide our behavior in different situations. It is well established that particular constructs and identities...
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Fall 2010
In two essays I investigate two antecedents of self-concept change in consumers: Threats to the self and the activated self-construal and its effect on goal conflict resolution. In the first essay, I explore identity strictly as consumers define themselves in terms of the possessions with which...