RE313 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Terror Management Theory, Mortality Salience, Sheldon Solomon
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In our worldview is threatened, we are going to feel anxiety and we"ll have to defend our worldview: think about a worldview you hold and see if you can explain it using these major tenets of tmt. Mortality salience hypothesis: from this theory they developed what they call the mortality salience hypothesis, this hypothesis states that reminds of our death should: If we accept their worldview, our confidence in our own worldview may be threatened: and if that happens we are vulnerable to experiencing the very anxiety our worldview is meant to ease. View: watch this 50 minute video called anatomy of human destructiveness . In this video dr. solomon summarizes in an engaging and entertaining manner the ideas we"ve studied in the previous lesson and this one. Implications of becker"s ideas: solomon thinks we do. In the above video he says that are better and worse illusions: the better illusions:
