PSYCHOLOGY Concepts and Theories: Mortality Salience

Mortality salience (MS) is a concept in Terror Management Theory (TMT). Mortality salience refers to a person's awareness that their death is inevitable. Mortality Salience occurs when something reminds a person of their mortality--the fact that their life will end. In response to MS, people use or create anxiety buffers.

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Terror Management Theory

Anxiety Buffer

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An anxiety buffer is a concept in Terror Management Theory. When faced with reminders of death (mortality salience), people develop ways to manage the resulting anxiety. People buffer themselves in different ways according to those values that are highly meaningful to them and those available when under threat.

Religion is one of the most common and nearly universal ways people buffer themselves against this type of anxiety.

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Terror Management Theory (TMT)

Meaning Maintenance Model (MMM)

Reactive Approach Motivation (RAM)