Talk:Terror management theory

wtf is weltanschauung?

The link directs to "world view" so that's probably what it means. I have no idea why the german word is used in the article though. Poktirity 23:38, 27 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In academic writing and literary criticism, the term "weltanschauung" is often used for a person or group's overall philosophy or outlook on the world, it implies something rahter more comprehensive and all-encompassing than the english "world view". See wittionary's entry. Like "Gestalt" and manyu other German-derived technical, scientific, and philosophical terms, this has entered at least technical english. DES ^(talk) 14:59, 27 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Do we have any references of this theory anywhere? Right now, it looks uncomfortably like a largely-ignored pet theory. 75.73.153.18 23:32, 25 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

See this google scholar search DES ^(talk) 14:59, 27 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

To the contrary, TMT is one of the most widely researched and well-validated research paradigms/theories in Social Psychology. Naysayers and skeptics should conduct an EBSCO (or Google Scholar) keyword search for "Terror Management Theory" or "Mortality Salience." 76.30.175.119 (talk) 05:55, 24 January 2008 (UTC) catcholden@gmail.com[reply]

Slightly related, the article says "Experiments supporting the two hypotheses above have been conducted in the US, Canada, Israel, Japan and the Netherlands." I have in my hand right now a research article studying mortality salience in Bielfield, Germany and the in the US so maybe Germany should be added? The title is "Whistling in the Dark: Exaggerated Consensus Estimates in Response to Incidental Reminders of Mortality" by Tom Pyszczynski et al, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, University of Bielefield Germany, Skidmore College, and University of Arizona. The two studies (in the US and in Germany) asked randomly selected passerby's a couple politically related questions 100m before passing a funeral home, 100m after passing a funeral home, and at the funeral home (with subjects physically facing the funeral home but having it out of view at the other two locations). 157.182.186.102 (talk) 16:19, 13 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"the one gain"?

I don't understand this phrase from the 3rd paragraph: "...a place where the one gain rests their hopes on symbolic immortality..." It reads like a passage copied incorrectly from another source. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 163.231.6.85 (talk) 20:20, 21 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

AfD

The result was keep. Bearian 14:54, 1 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

lack of empiricism

"Unlike other biological species, humans are the only creatures who are aware of their own inevitability of death." - and this has been empirically proven how?

Added some criticism to Becker's Denial of Death page which could be useful here as well... would like to see what is there already cleaned up and cited first though. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.127.253.242 (talk) 19:56, 5 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

NPOV

Much of the latter part of this article reads like advocacy for TMT. Although I happen to believe that TMT is a good and useful theory with much supporting evidence, I think the article needs to be edited to provide a more dispassionate treatment of the subject to meet Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy. -- Gigacephalus 11:46, 9 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

TMT

Animals are born with instincts. They have a predetermined notion that jumping from a cliff might not be good. Humans have these similar instincts, however they are aware that death is a possible result of the fall. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.13.155.187 (talk) 23:06, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

And how do you know that animals are not aware that death is a possible result of the fall? Dlabtot (talk) 05:39, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think that the animal knows it will die of old age if nothing else. cyclosarin (talk) 12:21, 17 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

actually elephants have mass graves and studies show that they willingly go there to die when they "fell they will die", meaning they KNOW THEY WILL DIE. in my opinion animals are aware of death but we humans have a different understanding of it.

question...

This article is curiously devoid of references -- our style of references.

I started to do some work improving the references -- when it struck me that these are hints that an article might be a {{copyvio}}.

So, why is it devoid of references? Geo Swan (talk) 01:41, 19 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Experiments supporting the theory

I think that up to date, already more than 300 experiments support the theory <but those "experiments may be of very poor quality —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.95.187.11 (talk) 20:19, 17 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]