The worm at the core

Sheldon Solomon Jeff Greenberg Tom Pyszczynski Norman Straker John W. Barnhill First published 2012

About this book

Demonstrates how an unconscious fear of death motivates nearly all human goals, behaviors, and cultures, examining the role of mortality awareness in prompting social unrest and war.

Subjects

  • attitude to death
  • cancer
  • cancer, psychological aspects
  • death
  • developmental psychology
  • fear
  • fear of death
  • health personnel
  • medical personnel
  • neoplasms
  • patients
  • psychoanalysis
  • psychological aspects
  • psychology
  • self-realization
  • survivors
  • terminally ill
  • terror
  • tumors