Testing the causal relationship between religious belief and death anxiety

Religion has long been speculated to function as a strategy to ameliorate our fear of death. Terror management theory provides two possible causal pathways through which religious beliefs can fulfil this function. According to the "worldview defence" account of terror management, worldview...

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Authors: Jackson, Joshua Conrad (Author) ; Jong, Jonathan (Author) ; Bluemke, Matthias (Author) ; Poulter, Phoebe (Author) ; Morgenroth, Leila (Author) ; Halberstadt, Jamin (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge 2018
In: Religion, brain & behavior
Year: 2018, Volume: 8, Issue: 1, Pages: 57-68
Further subjects:B implicit measures
B terror management theory
B Death Anxiety
B unconscious emotion
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