The Effect of Age on Death Disgust: Challenges to Terror Management Perspectives
Proponents of Terror Management Theory (TMT) argue that many facets of disgust serve to defend against existential anxiety accompanying cognizance of one's mortality. Because the passage of time brings death closer, this view predicts that the intensity of disgust elicited by reminders of death...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2005-01-01
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| Series: | Evolutionary Psychology |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/147470490500300120 |