According to Terror Management Theory, What Is a Mechanism Used

question 54

Multiple Choice

According to terror management theory, what is a mechanism used by many people around the world to deal with the fear caused by our awareness of our own mortality?

• A)Adopting a broad worldview that associates our lives with a broader purpose or meaning
• B)Focusing on the "here and now" rather than waiting for what might not ever occur
• C)Reconciling our past with our future so that we are always "ready" for death, should it occur
• D)Remembering that the greatest accomplishment that we can possibly have is to raise children as well as we can

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