[lit-ideas] Re: Terror Management Theory

  • From: Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 21:46:58 -0500 (GMT-05:00)

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From: Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Nov 7, 2004 3:50 PM
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Terror Management Theory

I was thinking a few days ago about a psych study done years ago that 
purported to show that heightened feelings (particularly fear, I think, 
engendered by a trip across a sketchy (as my daughter would say) 
swinging bridge) rendered the subject prone to rate someone they met on 
the other side as more attractive than rated by those who had not felt 
fear.   Maybe this explains the attraction of GWB.


A.A. Or the attraction of GWB for the troops.  


Andy Amago






Ursula Stange,
musing in North Bay

JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx wrote:

>In a  nutshell, terror 
>management theory proposes that all of our cultural  institutions, world-views 
>and self-esteem are driven by the knowledge and fear  of our impending death.  
>  
>

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