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Why We Fear Death: Terror Management Theory Explained

Corrected by Emir Baycan · on When Notes Fly · 12 July 2026 · View published page ↗

Ernest Becker argued in his 1974 Pulitzer Prize-winning book that the awareness of death is the engine driving most of human culture and behavior.

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−Dorothy Moss's elephant research at Amboseli documented similar behavior…
+Cynthia Moss's elephant research at Amboseli documented similar behavior…
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−Greenberg, Pyszczynski, Solomon, Rosenblatt, Veeder, Kirkland, and Lyon's…
+Rosenblatt, Greenberg, Solomon, Pyszczynski, and Lyon's 1989 paper in…

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