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  2. Death anxiety - Wikipedia

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    Death anxiety refers to the fear of death and the unknown that comes with it. Adult attachment, on the other hand, refers to the emotional bond between two individuals, often romantic partners, that provides a sense of security and comfort. Research has shown that there is a complex relationship between death anxiety and adult attachment. [68]

  3. The Denial of Death - Wikipedia

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    Becker himself claimed that: "In The Denial of Death I argued that man's innate and all-encompassing fear of death drives him to attempt to transcend death through culturally standardized hero systems and symbols." [5] A premise of The Denial of Death is that human civilization is a defense mechanism against the knowledge of our mortality. In ...

  4. Flight from Death - Wikipedia

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    Flight from Death is a 2003 documentary film that investigates the relationship of human violence to fear of death, as related to subconscious influences. The film describes death anxiety as a possible root cause of many human behaviors on a psychological, spiritual , and cultural level.

  5. The real reason psychopaths are such good liars - AOL

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    Lee said this could suggest that for psychopaths lying is more like a skill that can be learned — and learned fast. "The results are very impressive since first, all participants were mentally ...

  6. Narcissistic mortification - Wikipedia

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    Because in Western culture death is sometimes seen as the ultimate loss of control, fear of it may produce death anxiety in the form of a sense of extreme shame or narcissistic mortification. [15] The shame in this context is produced by the loss of stoicism, productivity, and control, aspects that are highly valued by society and aspects that ...

  7. Barbie has death anxiety. Here's what it means. - AOL

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    For individuals who actually are closer to death, either through age or illness, she adds, “it either goes up or it goes down — some of death anxiety is fear of the unknown, and when you’re ...

  8. Terror management theory - Wikipedia

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    The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny for man.

  9. Response modulation hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    The response modulation hypothesis is an etiological theory which argues that psychopathy is an attention disorder, and is not caused by an inherent lack of empathy or fear. [1] It posits that when psychopaths focus on a particular goal, they are unable to shift their attention to peripheral signals or cues if they are unrelated to the main goal.