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vor 15 Jahren
Forty years ago Ernest Becker theorized in his "Denial of Death"
that our culture and our cherished worldviews serve the purpose of
maintaining our self-esteem and sense of meaning in the face of
inevitable death and insignificance. More recently a body of work
in the social sciences called "Terror Management Theory" has lent
empirical evidence to these provocative ideas. The unconscious
anxiety about our own mortality has been linked to group conflict,
aggression against those who challenge our worldview, denial of our
animal nature including the theory of evolution, and the
unreasonable belief that the world is predictable and just.
that our culture and our cherished worldviews serve the purpose of
maintaining our self-esteem and sense of meaning in the face of
inevitable death and insignificance. More recently a body of work
in the social sciences called "Terror Management Theory" has lent
empirical evidence to these provocative ideas. The unconscious
anxiety about our own mortality has been linked to group conflict,
aggression against those who challenge our worldview, denial of our
animal nature including the theory of evolution, and the
unreasonable belief that the world is predictable and just.
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