Terror Management Theory, with Mike Johns

The Morbid Anatomy Transmission

Mar 3, 201521:45Society & Culture

On this episode I talk with social psychologist Michael Johns about terror management theory, a principle developed by psychologists Jeff Greenberg, Sheldon Solomon, and Tom Pyszczynski off the works of anthropologist Er...

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