Is Death Hazardous or Good for Your Health? A Terror Management Health Model for Understanding How Awareness of Mortality Influences Health-Relevant Behavior

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamie Arndt
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 378-404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kasey Lynn Morris ◽  
Jamie L. Goldenberg ◽  
Jamie Arndt ◽  
Simon McCabe

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 126-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamie Arndt ◽  
Jamie L. Goldenberg

This article offers an integrative understanding of the intersection between health and death from the perspective of the terror management health model. After highlighting the potential for health-related situations to elicit concerns about mortality, we turn to the question, how do thoughts of death influence health-related decision making? Across varied health domains, the answer depends on whether these cognitions are in conscious awareness or not. When mortality concerns are conscious, people form healthy intentions and engage in healthy behavior if efficacy and coping resources are present. In contrast, when contending with accessible but nonconscious thoughts of death, health-relevant decisions are guided more by the implications of the behavior for the individual’s sense of cultural value. Finally, we present research suggesting how these processes can be leveraged to facilitate health promotion and reduce health risk


2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas P. Cooper ◽  
Jamie L. Goldenberg ◽  
Jamie Arndt

Author(s):  
Patrick Boyd ◽  
Jamie L. Goldenberg

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacquelyn Kayla Watson ◽  
Kasey Lynn Morris ◽  
Burcin Cihan ◽  
Jamie L. Goldenberg ◽  
Jamie Arndt

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