Ernest Becker and the Psychology of Worldviews

Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, and Tom Pyszczynski offer experimental confirmation for Ernest Becker's claim that the fear of death is a powerful unconscious motive producing polarized worldviews and scapegoating. Their suggestion that their findings also prove Sigmund Freud's theory of...

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Main Author: Webb, Eugene (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Open Library of Humanities$s2024- 1998
In: Zygon
Year: 1998, Volume: 33, Issue: 1, Pages: 71-86
Further subjects:B Positivism
B Terror-Management Theory
B Ernest Becker
B Developmental Psychology
B Imitation
B Freudianism
B Worldview
B sociology of knowledge
B Repression
B Scapegoating
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