Terror Management Theory: How the Fear of Death Shapes Everything We Do
In 1989, municipal court judges were reminded of their own mortality and then asked to set bail for a prostitution case.
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Why We Fear Death: Terror Management Theory, Mortality Salience, and the Architecture of Human Civilization
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.