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Two Decades of Terror Management Theory: A Meta-Analysis of Mortality Salience Research

Brian L. Burke,A. Martens,Erik H. Faucher

2010 · DOI: 10.1177/1088868309352321
Personality and Social Psychology Review · 1,084 citations

TLDR

A meta-analysis was conducted on empirical trials investigating the mortality salience (MS) hypothesis of terror management theory, finding moderate effects on a range of worldview- and self-esteem-related dependent variables (DVs).