The role of age in death attitudes

1977 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard A. Kalish ◽  
David K. Reynolds
Keyword(s):  
Death Attitudes

What Man has told Children about Death

1971 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Schur
Keyword(s):  
Picture Books ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Death Attitudes ◽  
Dead Bird ◽  
History Of ◽  
Attitudes Towards Death ◽  
Attitude Toward Death ◽  
The Dead

This article begins with the assumption that one can gather some picture of the history of man's attitude toward death by examining the literature he has written for children. And so, it proceeds to survey death in children's literature from the early, anonymous works such as Mother Goose, to contemporary picture books like The Dead Bird. This literature is basically divided into four periods: Anonymous, Puritan, Intermediate and Contemporary. At least one representative example and further references follow the explanation of the values and principles of each period. The conclusion points out that, aside from the merits of this survey as a literature study and an indication of man's attitudes towards death through history, it can serve the important role of challenging the reader to examine his own death attitudes.

scholarly journals The Role of Religion in Death Attitudes: Distinguishing between Religious Belief and Style of Processing Religious Contents

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessie Dezutter ◽  
Bart Soenens ◽  
Koen Luyckx ◽  
Sabrina Bruyneel ◽  
Maarten Vansteenkiste ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Religious Belief ◽  
Death Attitudes ◽  
Role Of Religion

Assessing Attitudes Toward Dying and Death: Psychometric Considerations

2003 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. Neimeyer ◽  
Richard P. Moser ◽  
Joachim Wittkowski
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Death Attitudes ◽  
Repertory Grids ◽  
Behavioral Observations ◽  
Hastened Death ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Development And Validation ◽  
Made In

In the 50 years of research in death attitudes, clear gains have been made in the measurement of death concerns and competencies, leading to the development and validation of several scales whose more extensive use could improve the conceptual yield of research in this area. In this article, we review these promising instruments, focusing on nine general questionnaires for measuring death anxiety, fear, threat, depression, and acceptance, and four specialized measures of death self-efficacy and coping, readiness for death, and desire for hastened death. We also offer an orientation to non-questionnaire based techniques for the assessment of death attitudes (e.g., narrative measures, repertory grids, behavioral observations, death personifications and drawings), and close with a note on international developments that hold promise for improved cultural awareness of the role of death attitudes in human life.

Widows View Death: A Brief Research Note

1974 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard A. Kalish ◽  
David K. Reynolds
Keyword(s):  
Educational Status ◽  
Research Note ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Significant Other ◽  
Death Attitudes ◽  
Appropriate Behavior ◽  
The Status

This study is concerned with comparing death attitudes among widows and non-widows. Since the status of widowhood indicates the loss through death of a significant other, it was hypothesized that widows would respond differently than non-widows on a number of death-related interview questions. Attempts were made to match the age, ethnicity, and educational status between the participants. The interview included such topics as expectations and preferences concerning funerals, fear of death, belief in immortality, and feelings as to appropriate behavior for widows and widowers. In general, the role of widowhood seemed to have little or no effect upon death attitudes.

scholarly journals The Role Of Religion in Death Attitudes: Distinguishing Between Religious Belief and Style of Processing Religious Contents

Death Studies ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessie Dezutter ◽  
Bart Soenens ◽  
Koen Luyckx ◽  
Sabrina Bruyneel ◽  
Maarten Vansteenkiste ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Religious Belief ◽  
Death Attitudes ◽  
Role Of Religion

Role of dactinomycin in the improved survival of children with Wilms' tumor

JAMA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 195 (12) ◽  
pp. 1005-1009 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Fernbach
Keyword(s):  
Wilms Tumor

Role of the allergist in diagnosis and management of patients with uveitis

JAMA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 195 (3) ◽  
pp. 167-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. E. Van Metre
Keyword(s):  
Diagnosis And Management

The power of norms to sway fused group members

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Winnifred R. Louis ◽  
Craig McGarty ◽  
Emma F. Thomas ◽  
Catherine E. Amiot ◽  
Fathali M. Moghaddam
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Anthropology ◽  
Normative Systems ◽  
Violent Extremism ◽  
Identity Fusion ◽  
Group Members

AbstractWhitehouse adapts insights from evolutionary anthropology to interpret extreme self-sacrifice through the concept of identity fusion. The model neglects the role of normative systems in shaping behaviors, especially in relation to violent extremism. In peaceful groups, increasing fusion will actually decrease extremism. Groups collectively appraise threats and opportunities, actively debate action options, and rarely choose violence toward self or others.

Elaborating the role of reflection and individual differences in the study of folk-economic beliefs

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Arceneaux
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Evolutionary History ◽  
Behavioral Responses ◽  
History Of ◽  
Economic Beliefs

AbstractIntuitions guide decision-making, and looking to the evolutionary history of humans illuminates why some behavioral responses are more intuitive than others. Yet a place remains for cognitive processes to second-guess intuitive responses – that is, to be reflective – and individual differences abound in automatic, intuitive processing as well.

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