Which of the Following Statements BEST Summarizes Terror Management Theory

question 72

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements BEST summarizes terror management theory?

• A) People from individualist cultures tend to be more concerned about the possibility of dying alone.
• B) The majority of people's activities are designed to distract them from thinking about death and other sources of anxiety.
• C) The anxiety that people feel in everyday life is repressed by unconscious mechanisms which prevent terror from ever entering into conscious awareness.
• D) To protect against fears of mortality, humans try to see themselves as valuable contributors to a meaningful world.

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