PSYC 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Terror Management Theory, Mortality Salience, Existentialism
18 Feb 2017
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Psyc 215 lecture 23 (2016/11/24) (cid:862)terror (cid:373)a(cid:374)age(cid:373)e(cid:374)t theor(cid:455)(cid:863) Proposes a basic psychological conflict that results from having a desire to live but realising that death is inevitable. This conflict produces terror and this terror is then managed by embracing cultural values, or symbolic systems that act to provide life with meaning and value. Consider evaluation of others and of self, self-regulation, according to social standards and norms: powerful and sometimes destructive influences. Existentialism: a philosophical theory or approach that emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of will. Imagination using symbols and language, we can imagine many things that are not in front of us. Conception of future events: these raise some basic concerns or anxieties, absurdity. Imagine going outside at night and looking up at the sky. Each little dot of light is huge and is very very far away.
