Which of the Following Statements BEST Summarizes Terror Management Theory

question 70

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 that 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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