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social science subjects > psychology > social psychology > cultural psychology > mortality salience
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mortality salience  

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  • Definition Mortality salience refers to a psychological state in which a person is consciously thinking about his or her own death. Background Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, and Sheldon Solomon coined the term in 1986 to refer to a way to assess terror management theory. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Psychology; Mortality Salience]

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