PSYC 3570 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Fatalism, Terror Management Theory, Existentialism
10 May 2014
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Phillipe aries: attempted to reconstruct the history of european death attitudes, focusing on approximately a thousand years after the introduction of christianity up to the present time, 4 psychological themes and their variations were extracted from the observation: The defense of society against untamed nature. Belief in the existence of evil: death was primarily a community event in the earliest human societies, ritualization was a way of protecting fragile human society from the uncontrollable perils of nature and malevolent gods. Attitudes, experiences, beliefs, feelings: attitudes refer to our action tendencies, beliefs refer to our worldview, e. g. fatalism is one type of belief, feelings provide us with qualitative information, a status report on our sense of being. Study of observing street crossers in five risk categories. Morality salience using evasive strategy to build barriers between death and oneself. Sigmund freud proposed that our unconscious system does not respond to the passage of time, therefore does not recognize the idea of death.
