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The Denial of Death
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The Denial of Death as mentioned in this paper is an answer to the "why" of human existence, which sheds new light on the nature of humanity and issues a call to life and its living that still resonates more than twenty years after its writing.Abstract:
Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work,The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned answer to the "why" of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie -- man's refusal to acknowledge his own mortality. In doing so, he sheds new light on the nature of humanity and issues a call to life and its living that still resonates more than twenty years after its writing.read more
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Predicting proximal health responses to reminders of death: The influence of coping style and health optimism
TL;DR: In this paper, individual differences in coping style and health optimism relate to the ways in which people respond to death-related cognitions in focal attention, finding that adaptive coping was associated with increased health behavioral intentions immediately after death thoughts were made salient, but not after a delay.
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Power and death: Mortality salience increases power seeking while feeling powerful reduces death anxiety.
Peter Belmi,Jeffrey Pfeffer +1 more
TL;DR: It was found that when primed to feel more powerful, both men and women experienced less mortality anxiety, and Studies 3-5 showed that feeling powerful reduces anxiety when mortality is salient.
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Toward a Biological Understanding of Mortality Salience (And Other Threat Compensation Processes)
TL;DR: In this paper, an evolutionarily primitive, biologically based anxiety system underlies mortality salience (MS) effects, and a biologically informed, mechanistic elucidation of threat-compensation processes that may be applied to a wide range of social psychological phenomena.
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Human-initiated disaster, social disorganization and post-traumatic stress disorder above Nigeria's oil basins.
TL;DR: In places like the Niger Delta, where people do not physically escape from past trauma, sociocultural disintegration may interfere with communal functioning, thereby eroding community capacity to promote self-healing.